In another two weeks, Singh will be back, centrestage, with Kawa kawa… and hopes that like the crow that soars high up in the skies, our sportspersons will keep the Indian tri-colour flying high through the Games. “Since I was late delivering the song, I was confronted with an angry Mira Nair on our first meeting,” he smiles. Later, he came across a folk song, ‘Rabba rabba meen barsa, sadi kothi dane pe…’ to which he added the words Kawa kawa… and crafted the Monsoon Wedding chartbuster. “Whenever that would happen, we would sing, Kawa, kawa… Singh says. So despite all the criticism, I’m sure his CWG anthem, Swagatham… will eventually work out well.” On the subject of Kawa kawa… he recalls that as a child, he would fly kites and get exasperated by the crows who would get entangled in the threads and result in their kites cutting loose. Tell him that AR Rahman is expected to perform the Oscar winning Jai ho… during the opening ceremony of the Games and he says, “Really? That’s news to me. I’m glad though that they’ve asked for a tried-and-tested song so there’s no chance of my six-minute act being panned,” he says, tongue-firmly-in-cheek. “But when I realised that it was the Commonwealth Games, I was honoured. The singer admits that when he was approached, he assumed that CWG was a private association or club and wasn’t too keen. It’s just as Dube predicted – a perfect conclusion to a near perfect movie.Sukhwinder Singh has been approached to sing Kawa kawa…, his hit song from Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, in the entertainment section at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in the capital on October 14. The poignancy of Lalit and Pammi wistfully watching their daughter being wed is followed by the look of quiet triumph on the faces of Hemant and Aditi. The lyrics speak of the bounty of the season and the joy spread by a wedding that has finally taken place as planned. The song has a single stanza in Singh’s voice and a second one by a female chorus. Ajj Mera Jee Karda, a slow tempo bhangra beat number composed and gloriously sung by Sukhwinder Singh, uses the Punjabi word for the crow to maintain the metre of the lyrics as well as herald the glories of the monsoon. Nair’s most accomplished film dispenses with lip-synced songs and dexterously weaves background tunes and instrumental pieces into the narrative. Aditi’s cousin Ria (Shefali Shah) confronts a disturbing family secret, while the wedding planner Dube (Vijay Raaz) chomps on marigolds every time he sees the maid Alice (Tillotama Shome). Lalit (Naseeruddin Shah) worries about the bills, his wife Pammi (Lillete Dubey) keeps the peace while sneaking cigarette breaks in the bathroom, and Aditi wonders whether Hemant is the man for her. The ceremony caps several days of stress and strain on Aditi and her family.
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Nair brilliantly splices together visuals of the nuptials of Aditi (Vasundhara Das) and Hemant (Parvin Dabbas) with the roll call of everyone who worked on the movie (The last line: “We are like that only 40 locations, 30 days exactly & approximately). It isn’t over until Sukhwinder Singh sings. Several audience members filed out of the cinemas as soon as the names of the cast and crew started rolling, but the more alert ones realised that the movie wasn’t done yet.
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