Koshy, whose brainwave From Mug to Mike has given a platform to 450 workshops and trained over 7,500 bathroom singers over the last five years across Delhi, Mumbai,
When Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman walked into India through the Wagah-Attari border after spending over 60 hours in Pakistani captivity, his travails had captured the popular imagination like little else catapulting him into a national hero.
Among those following the developments closely was well-known music composer-singer Sunil Koshy who was heading to Mumbai for a From Mug To Mike workshop (in which he helps demystify recording in a studio for bathroom singers) on Sunday. "As I monitored developments till late on Friday, I could feel a tune spontaneously work itself in me," says the Bengaluru-resident Koshy who remembers the worry that engulfed him as delays from Pakistan kept the entire nation on tenterhooks till late Friday night.
Even when the composer-singer, who has given music for Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Sanskrit films, serials and albums, boarded a Bengaluru-Mumbai flight, he could hear fellow passengers speak in Tamil glowingly about Wing Cdr Abhinandan. "When I landed I went straight to legendary composer-vocalist Hariharan's In The Mix studio at Powai to record. I also reached out to the maestro's regular lyricist Sahil Sultanpuri to write lyrics," he recounts and adds, "In less than two hours we had a song – Ae Watan, Mere Hindostan/ Hum rahe ki na rahe / katra katra khoon tujhpe hee bahe (My beloved Hindostan / No matter what happens / I owe every drop of my blood for you)."
All praise for Sahil for being able to capture the emotions of what he was suggesting he said: "It helps that he hails from the same place as the legendary lyricist Majrooh Saab," and pointed out, "Rijosh did the music programming and Saibu Simon recorded and mastered the track."
Koshy, whose brainwave From Mug to Mike has given a platform to 450 workshops and trained over 7,500 bathroom singers over the last five years across Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, Trivandrum and Dubai, says his humble offering is nothing compared to the sacrifice of uniformed men like Wing Cdr Abhinandan. "I am trying to offer my humble tribute musically to them for all that they do for us. I find it exceptional how the song found expression parallelly with the capture and release of this national hero. I refuse to believe I made this song. It emerged from deep within and got made."
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