Mumbai, July 19
Music composer Pritam, who has brought the charms of Bollywood music with his recent album ‘Metro...In Dino’, is going back in time, and tracing the roots of his creative partnership with his frequent collaborator Anurag Basu, the director of ‘Metro...In Dino’.
Pritam recently spoke, and shared that the two connected for the first time almost 27 years ago when both of them were new to the market and were exploring the space of television shows.
He told, “First time, I collaborated with Anurag was in 1998. I had a friend who introduced me to Anurag and said that we are making a serial about ghosts. He used to do a lot of serial that time. So, I did the title song on Zee TV. Then, he was making films, he did ‘Murder’, which was a huge hit. He became a successful director after ‘Murder’. And then I did ‘Dhoom’. I became a successful music director after ‘Dhoom’. So, that's when he connected with me. That's how we did ‘Gangster’”
Both ‘Murder’ and ‘Dhoom’ released in the same year. While the music of ‘Murder’ was done by Anu Malik, ‘Dhoom’ was directed by Sanjay Gadhvi.
‘Gangster’ marked the first cinematic collaboration between Pritam and Anurag.