Sudhir
Mishra’s next political thriller film Daas Dev’s Music was launched yesterday
in a Grand event at Ultra Indian Derby 2018 at Mahalaxmi
Racecourse. The music of the film is acquired by Zee Music. The album has
marvelous 7 songs in total composed by five Music Directors.
There are two songs composed by Sandesh Shandliya sung by Rekha Bharadwaj,
Shardha Mishra and Papon, two songs by Vipin Patwa which are sung by Atif Aslam
and Javed Bashir, one song by Shamir Tandon sung by Papon and Krishna Berua and
there is a new composer Anupama Raag and lyricist Gaurav Solanki whose song is
sung by Swanand Kirkire. Also, there is a song by Arko sung by himself and
Navraj Hans.
The Sunday afternoon witnessed music directors
Shamir Tandon, Arko and Vipin Patwa performing live along with singers Navraj
Hans, Swanand Kirkire, Shardha Mishra at the music launch of Daas Dev. On the
occasion, Director Sudhir Mishra introduced the cast and crew of the film
- Richa Chadha, Rahul Bhat, Saurabh Shukla, Vipin
Sharma, Dilip Tahil and Deep Raj Rana. Presenter Gaurav Sharma of Storm
Pictures and Producer Sanjeev Kumar of Saptarishi Cinevision Productions.
Actress Huma Qureshi was also present to support the film.
Vipin Patwa said, “I have done three songs in this
film. ‘Sehmi hai dhadkan’ sung by Atif Aslam, ‘Tain To Utte’ poetry by Bulleh
Shah sung by Jawed Bashir and third one ‘Shauk vi si’ sung by myself, Mohit and
Arun. I am also doing the background of the film so its little different kind of
music as it is Sudhir Mishra’s film so it can’t be normal. The film is also
very different and after long time we will get to hear poetic songs which will
be commercial but with mass appeal. It’s not only poetry, I have tried to apply
contemporary music to it because there were poetries from Munir Niazi, Bulleh
Shah and Dr. Sagar, so it was very mature and I can say a lot of work has been
done on the poetries. This music is for all age group. People who don’t
understand poetry, for them its rhythm, its groove, its tune and who
understands poetry, its ‘Mashallah’, I would suggest to listen to it once for
sure then they will know what kind of work is put in. Atif Aslam said after
recording the song ‘Sehmi hai dhadkan’ that ‘After very long this kind of song
has come because musically its very rich and though it is non-commercial it
still sounds like a commercial song’. So I hope everyone will like it”.
Shamir Tandon said, “I have been very fortunate to
have had a very long association with the legendary film maker Sudhir Mishra. I
was associated with Sudhir sir wearing a managerial hat when we released the
music of ‘Iss raat ki subah nahin’, ‘Hazaaron khwahishein aisi'. I had good
fortune to work closely with him then and now on musical front, I had worked
with him during ‘Inkaar’ and now the latest ‘Daas Dev’. The beauty of the song
that we have done for ‘Daas Dev’ is that it has two of my favourite singers
lending their voice, Papon and Krishna Berua singing in two different musical
registers. It’s an interesting song called ‘Marne ka shauk tha’. It is a song
about men and women who lament about the problems they have faced in love but
this one is a radical difference from what you’ve heard in the past because
Sudhir Mishra who always forces you to think out of the box has made us do a
song where the responsibility of the disaster of falling in love is taken over
by the hero himself. So, Devdas himself says that, ‘saala mujhe he toh Marne ka
shauk tha’ that I fell in love. Knowing that I will be in trouble, I still fell
in love. Knowing the consequences of the holocaust that love has and yet I fell
in love so I am not lamenting or regretting in love but taking full
responsibility. So, I think it’s a song with lyrical difference and Sudhir
Mishra himself has narrated few dialogues in the song”.
Arko said, “The music of the film is very
interesting, I have been a fan of Sudhir Mishra since I was a kid. Its been
amazing, the idea that Gaurav came up with to club this event with derby
because the day time setup works amazing. I had a blast with all my friends and
cast of the film.Sudhir ji and me have been in touch for a while and he has
been sending me a lot of poetry that he is inspired from and which goes with
the film. Usually I don’t take lyrical inputs but in this case the words that
he sent me was amazing which was written by Munir Niazi in early 20th
century. And I had a song, I had recorded in Los Angeles last year called
Rangdari so it kind of came together and I am so happy that this is the motion
track of the film. I really believe in the film and I really believe in
substantial cinema which is not to say that I don’t like commercial cinema, I
like good cinema, where I am from we have been brought up watching good cinema
so its a pleasure to be a part of it”.
Navraj Hans said, “I am in love with the song
because it’s a different song, it’s a mix of Punjabi poetry with Hindi poetry,
it was something different for me to do so. I hope it becomes the catch song of
the film and it’s the song with high energy so I think we Punjabi’s are called
when there is need of such energy. I am very thankful to Arko and Sudhir ji
that they gave me this opportunity to sing”.
The film stars Richa Chadha as Paro, Aditi Rao
Hydari as Chandni and Rahul Bhat as Dev. The film also features power packed
performances from Vineet Singh, Saurabh Shukla and Vipin Sharma. Anurag Kashyap
will be seen in a guest appearance in the film. Directed by Sudhir Mishra,
presented by Storm Pictures and produced by Saptarishi Cinevision Production. Daas
Dev is set to release on 9th March 2018.fiercely political film that talks about the
protagonist’s addiction. The movie’s premise is novel in a way that it is a
reverse story of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas dipped in Shakespearean
influences. If Devdas was a journey from a noble person to a 'Das', this is a
journey from 'Das', a person who is a slave to his addictions and to the
dynastic ambitions of his family to ‘Dev’. Set against the backdrop of Uttar
Pradesh, ‘Daas Dev’ is a film about power, love and addiction.
