If Sundays are meant to be lazy, Sonu Niigaam made sure this one wasn’t, not for Hyderabad. While the audience seemed restless at the wait, one note of the singer’s voice was enough to cool them down. Even before the man reached the stage, his voice did. As soon as ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ began so did the ‘oos.’ With an eye on the audience’s pulse, the curly haired singer made sure he instantly delivered what the audience wanted. A breezy night, good music and a great voice...Hyderabadis were only asking for more.
So if he began with a sultry number like ‘Jal Jal Ke Dhuan Ho Rahe Hum’, he made sure the next song had loads of masti. ‘Chuk, De Chuk De’ from ‘Hum Tum’ set a peppy mood in place. While his popular ‘Mere Hath Mein’ from ‘Fanaa’ made sure the women went weak-kneed, Sonu also made sure there was a number like ‘Pyar De Kar Le Karar Soniye’ from ‘Mujhse Shadi Karogi’ that the guys couldn’t stop jumping about.
And it wasn’t long before the audience joined the singer. So if he sang, ‘Kajra Ne Leli Meri Jaan’, the audience echoed back ‘Hai Re Main Teri Qurban’. If he made sure youngsters enjoyed the bhangra beats, there was also the soft number like ‘Sathiya,’ for others.
While the singer constantly complemented the audience on their ‘josh’, they made sure they answered back with loud applause. While some swung their arms in the air, others decided to hum along with the singer. A pulsating performance it was. And if was going desi all the while, he made a surprise twist with Bee Gees ‘Staying Alive’. Of course Bollywood ruled, so did the crown prince of Bollywood, late into the night.
Article: Times of India, Hyderabad. Monday, 2 April 2007.
No comments:
Post a Comment