Anmol Malik, who is the daughter of one of the leading music directors of Bollywood, Anu Malik, is going to make her debut in Satish Kaushik’s Tere Sang. Some of you might remember her as the voice of the song ‘agle janam mohe bitiya na keejo‘, from the flop movie Umrao Jaan, in which Anu Malik himself had given the music for this period epic, while Javed Akhtar’s beautiful poetry mesmerised everyone.
As a 15-year old Anmol had recorded this song for J P Dutta's Umrao Jaan. The song was recorded at Krishna Studio, and was picturised on the young Aishwarya Rai in the movie. Richa Sharma sang the same song which was picturised on the adult Aishwarya Rai. Dutta had heard her, humming a song and had decided that he wanted her to sing for his film. Earlier, the young singer had sung a few lines in films like adal and Biwi No. 1. Music is certainly in her genes!
Satish Kaushik’s Tere Sang will mark the acting debut of newcomer Sheena (Actress Sadhana Singh of Nadiya Ke Paar fame and producer Rajkumar Shahabadi's daughter), and Anmol Malik is all has lent her the voice for the songs. Anu Malik is jubilant over his daughter bagging this project as he talked about his daughter’s one song impressing director Satish Kaushik so much, that he got her to do all the songs. He was also reported as claiming that one of the compliments he got for his daughter’s voice to be, that she had no arrogance in her voice.
While it was Anu Malik himself who taught his daughter singing, he is also excited about the project because in his view, she couldn't have got a better movie. While director Satish Kaushik said that this would be the first time that a playback singer was singing all the songs for a female debutante, ever since Lata Mangeshkar did the same for Dimple Kapadia’s debut in the movie Bobby, who was 15 years old at the time.
Anmol has composed 115 English songs and wants to release an international album at a later stage. Exposed to both Hindustani and Western music, Anmol does not want to name her favourite singer. "It will be unwise to name any particular person. Each singer has his or her style and one needs to be tuned to that style to form an opinion." However, she cannot hide her fondness for singer-actress Jennifer Lopez . "It's improper to take a J-Lo song at face value
because her performance is a package which needs to be savoured in totality."
because her performance is a package which needs to be savoured in totality."
This 18 year old sure can hold her own in terms of singing talent as we saw on Indian Idol 3. She does possess a very fresh voice quality in addition to being easy on the eyes
Anmol Malik On Indian Idol 3 (2007)
