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‘I want to create music that touches the soul’: Akriti Kakar

Akriti Kakar on why she wants her music to be organic and not programmed, like her new single, Chitta Kukkad

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The melody of Punjabi folk song Chitta Kukkad was refreshed in people’s memories recently after The Doorbeen and Ragini Tandon dropped the megahit single, Lamberghini. While that was a dance-pop ditty, songstress Akriti Kakar has revisited it, as well, with a stripped-down, acoustic folk Chitta Kukkad/Baage Vich. “It’s so funny and sad at the same time that people have commented on the video that it sounds like Lamberghini. They don’t even know it’s lifted from a folk tune that’s maybe 100 years old,” she rues, adding that her version is basic because she wanted the song to be heard in its true form.

FOLK TUNES

Akriti zeroed in on this wedding folk track after performing at a wedding in Ludhiana with her Big Band Theory project. “We did an unplugged version of our popular tracks but the bride’s father said he wanted his daughter to enter on the shaadi mash-up of Din Shaghna Da (Phillauri), Madhaniya (Punjabi folk) and Dilbaro (Raazi) that I’ve done. He told me that ever since the date of the nuptials was announced, he’d listen to the medley every morning and get emotional. I thought this was so special,” says she.

VARIETY OF SONGS

Though she has released many traditional songs, Akriti states that her next track won’t be in the same genre. “I plan to do a variety of stuff. I want to release songs that are being requested by my fans on my social media but which also creatively satisfy me,” she explains. Her plan is to make stuff that has a long shelf life and balances her commercial playback profile. “I want to create music that touches the soul. I want to do everything organic and nothing programmed. I’m trying to set apart my sound from what’s popular in Bollywood,” says the Saturday Saturday (Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania) hitmaker.

ON HER PLATTER

All the songs on Akriti’s YouTube channel are remakes, and she is biding her time before releasing original content. “As an indie artiste, I have to do everything on my own. I first want my channel to grow. When we have a solid number of subscribers (we’re heading towards 2,00,000 in 10 months), it will give me the confidence to put out more originals,” she points out. Composing (and singing) Jobless in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Milan Talkies opened a new territory for her. “A few people have shown interest in taking a couple of my compositions,” she adds. Other than playback songs, she has a collaboration with a music producer and DJ from LA that she’s kicked about.

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