Heer & the Hero

way. During the same time,he also penned Saadi gali,which has now found itself on the hit tracklist of Rohan Sippy’s Nautanki Saala,Khurrana’s second Bollywood film as an actor. Inspired and encouraged by the tremendous response to his songs,Khurrana along with his childhood friend Rochak Kohli,has written and composed a brand new single called O Heeriye. With Yash Raj Films as a producer on this solo,Khurrana is looking at a digital release soon along with a music video doing rounds on music channels.

“It’s a Punjabi soft rock love ballad,and will be released in the third week of September,” says Khurrana,adding how he wrote Paani da… in college while Saadi gali was penned when he was in high school.

He admits that his approach and style of creating a song has changed over time,but not his

enthusiasm to make more music. The usual questions follow — why not an album,and why not release the songs when they were made originally? “Well,the ’90s and the early 2000s were really not a great time and market for independent artistes,and there was little reach of such songs. Bollywood music called the shots,and

so I let it be,” he says.

Yes,he could’ve released them when his television career took off. But this “actor,anchor,crooner,donor,poser,composer,blogger,jogger and hogger” (so reads his twitter bio),

decided against it. “The impact would’ve been less,much less than what a film can make and generate. A film is a mass medium and lends a face to the voice too,” he says.

Interestingly,Khurrana will be singing another song

in his upcoming film with Sonam Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor early next year,and yet another one in a biopic that is still under wraps.

In fact,he plans to sing one song in every film he signs on. Does he consider that to be his lucky charm? “I guess so,and also because I want to keep doing this till I can,and till the filmmakers willingly bring me on board with it,” he says.