Move To Marathi Rock

The launch,held at the Dr Shyamrao Kalmadi High School,Erandwane,was attended by veteran poet and lyricist Sudhir Moghe and actor Kishor Kadam. The album was released along with a book comprising 150 poems written by Bhagwat’s father. “I graduated as an engineer in 2003 but I was hooked onto music and chose a career in this field even though my father was unhappy about it. In 2005,he passed away. As I was sifting through his books,I came across his own collection of poems,which no one knew about,” Bhagwat says. As he read his father’s written words,he made up his mind to publish the poems into a book. “I added tunes to some of the poems that spoke about different topics,and for the rest of his works,I looked for a publisher,” he adds. His father was thus unknowingly instrumental in helping him create his own Marathi album,he feels.

Among the seven different tracks,there’s a hip-hop number sung by Bhagwat himself,a hard rock song by Kunal Ganjawala,a romantic track and one with no backing of instruments. “Also,Shankar Mahadevan and Hariharan have sung a duet. This is the first time that they have come together,” Bhagwat reveals.

The album took three and a half years to be completed and it was recorded at studios in Pune and Mumbai. “It’s a project that’s very close to my heart,and it is my way of paying a tribute to my late father who would have been proud of my achievement and his own too,” he concludes.

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