Nikhita Gandhi has lent her voice to several popular songs over the years, including Raabta, Qaafirana, Burj Khalifa, Naach Meri Rani and Dil Ka Telephone.
Priyadarshan’s films usually have very memorable music moments. Did that legacy sit in your head while working on Bhooth Bangla?
You’re gonna find this hilarious, but I didn’t know Tu Hi Disda was for Bhooth Bangla till a day before the song’s release. I just knew it was a love song. Didn’t know about the cast or even that Arijit Singh was going to be on it.
Oh yes! I’ve noticed I’ve sung a lot for Kiara Advani and Katrina Kaif. I’m assuming the whole sultry husky western-y voice really suits the slightly more ‘international’ looking actresses!
Fun fact though, while working on Metro… In Dino, I did a lot of singing in the score of the film because Anurag da (Anurag Basu) found it so fascinating how similar Sara Ali Khan and I sound in our talking voices. It’s so funny and true because at the launch event, he kept making me laugh to prove to Sara that we have the same laugh.
You’ve collaborated with Arijit Singh multiple times now. Is recording with him very comfortable or still intimidating?
It’s not intimidating, mostly because he sends all his recordings from Jiagunj. I have hung out with him a few times and watched him record and even worked on some of his indie projects as a producer, so our work together has always been very collaborative and quite comfortable.
The one time I was sh*tting bricks was when I was working on Sanju and was at the studio waiting my turn, and the person singing before me was Shreya Ghoshal. She is flawless!
There are many myths. Sometimes people assume that if it’s a duet, we are singing it together. People also assume that we spend a lot of time with the actors and producers, which is untrue because they usually are not involved at all with the recording process. They mostly just interact with the music director.
Another highly misunderstood piece of the puzzle is poor Autotune. The assumption is that it’s for people who can’t sing. The truth is, it’s just a plugin or in layperson’s language, an “added feature or nuance”, much like EQ and reverb, that just enhances the vocals a bit.
Of course, it can be overused or even underused, but it is not at all a reflection of the vocal prowess of a singer.
Insane. I barely had experience in recording in a studio to begin with. I was singing a Tamil song, a language I could barely speak at the time. The song was super high-pitched and outside my comfort zone at the time. The tempo was also on a great difficulty level because I had to sing all these fast lines and difficult words in Tamil.
He’s funny and pretty talkative if he opens up to you. Never in my life would I have imagined that. He’s also the fastest producer/arranger/recordist I have seen in a studio.
My first Bollywood song, Raabta, changed my entire perspective of what I wanted to do with my life. It made me realise that music is my calling and gave me the confidence to make that professional shift from a dentist to a singer.
I don’t really think I’ve changed much as a person or had any sort of pivot. A song that added growth, I would say, was Ghar. It gave a lot more depth to me as an artist and showed a vulnerability that allows so many fans to connect with me a lot more deeply.
MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC! I’ve written an album and tons of music with other artists, and this is going to be the year they start rolling out!
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