Mumbai, Aug 11
Music composer Pritam, whose recently released album ‘Metro... In Dino’, has shared that he was pleasantly surprised when he got to know that Amitabh Bhattacharya has written the lyrics for ‘Dev.D’.
Amitabh was Pritam's assistant for a long time but Pritam never saw this side of him when the two worked together.
Pritam spoke following the success of the ‘Metro... In Dino’ album, and said, “Amitabh was one of my first assistants. He came to me for work but I was quite new to the industry, and was trying to make my way in. I thought he sings, he never used to write. I used to make everyone a lyric writer”.
He told, “Amitabh Verma, he was an editor at my studio. I made him a lyric writer. Mayur Puri was Sanjay Gadhvi's assistant. I made him a lyric writer by asking to write him a scratch. I was like, ‘How did Amitabh Bhattacharya get out of my sight?’ Ashish Pandit came to sing. I asked him to write a scratch for the presentation”.