VISHAL DADLANI - MELODY OF MATURITY

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VISHAL DADLANI
MELODY OF MATURITY

When Vishal Dadlani started as a vocalist of an electronic band with friends from all over Mumbai, he could have never imagined the dizzying heights of fame that he would be catapulted to and the accolades that would soon come his way. Pentagram was never meant for the masses, thanks to its metal undertones and hair-raising lyrics. But it enjoyed its ardent fan-following nonetheless. But that was nearly a decade ago. Vishal teamed up with Shekhar Ravjiani to form the duo of Vishal-Shekhar and after the colossal success of the movie Jhankaar Beats, they became hot property in the industry.

The critics held back from going full out in their appreciation of the new-found talent. Most sceptics did not take Vishal-Shekhar seriously and believed them to become a likely addition to Bollywood’s list of one-hit-wonders. But the duo followed their lucky streak with movies like Salaam Namaste, Dus and Bluffmaster, and as Saif Ali Khan and Ahishek Bachchan grooved to their beats on-screen, the Indian music lovers lapped up their albums.

In retrospect, Vishal has come a million miles from where he had started; both in terms of the genre of music he belts out and the audience that he caters to. So if music was the first choice, one wonders if this was Vishal’s first love. “Well, I would say that I did not take up music but it took me up instead. In 1993 I started Pentagram, which was the turning point of my life. 1996 is when I started off in this industry and here I am. Even as a child I always loved music,” reminisces Vishal.

For someone with high credentials in the music industry, it becomes even tougher to maintain the status. But our man has one mantra of success that is not that easy to overrule. “Make good music and keep trying to do better.”

With the kind of competition in the business, many would wonder how he intends on managing to keep up with the high standards that have now come to be expected of him. “Some of the music directors are good friends of mine. I learn a lot from them and we talk about what we like, which is music. So it’s all good,” says Vishal. Hope this camaraderie and excellent music are here to stay because it will easily take an eternity or more before we would have had enough of this man.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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