How does the pain of partition sound like? In Imtiaz Ali’s searing romance, Main Vaapas Aaunga, innumerable screams, countless cries, trembling prayers and unkept promises — all get dissolved into a deafening silence as a feeble voice cuts through the numbness, carrying the severity of pain and the affirmation of love. The soft, tender voice, belonging to playback singer Deepali Sahay, pierces through the minimal musicality of A.R. Rahman’s ‘Tere Paas Main’, that has instantly become an earworm, generating varied reactions online within ten days of the film’s release.The singer reveals how she recorded a version of the song at Rahman’s home studio in Chennai. After that, the song continued to transition as certain words were changed and notes were rearranged. It kept changing till a night before the film’s trailer launch when it was finally decided that the scale of the song was to be modified, demanding a re-recording. Deepali sang the whole song immediately after she got a call from Rahman that evening. “Rahman sir said that I have fifteen minutes and I did it in twenty,” tells Deepali in a conversation with The Hindu.
Deepali Sahay with A.R. Rahman
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