 His absence at the music release of Mere Brother Ki Dulhan has fuelled
speculations of a rift with co-stars Imran Khan and Katrina Kaif. Ali Zafar
laughs off the rumours, "I couldn’t be in Mumbai because I’m shooting a film
here that’s partly set in London. But I will be in India on August 26 and
have a ‘live’ promotional concert scheduled for the next day with my co-stars.
The plan is for Katrina, Imran and me to do a series of promotional concerts
across the country.”
Ali, who has been missing from the promos so far will break in with a
song, Madhubala… that goes on air today and has him tossing off glasses of
bhaang and doing a rock Bhangra with ‘bro’ Imran and dulhan
Katrina: "It’s a fun track that we shot over four days in Mumbai in sweltering
June. Since I don’t drink, I didn’t touch the ‘bhaang’ but downed glasses of
cold coffee. I lost four
pounds in four days.”
The song is sung by Ali himself who remembers it being mailed to him by music
director Sohail Sen in Australia when he was there for a film festival . "It had
been recorded by another singer. I sang it in my scale, half asleep, and sent it
back,” he recalls, adding that initially they were going with a slower track.
"But, after pack-up, when Imran, Katrina and I would sit together with Ali
(director Ali Abbas Zafar) to discuss the film, both Katrina and I thought that
we needed to go wilder on this song. So then, Ali opted for the fast-paced
‘Madhubala….’”
Ali admits to being a huge Dilip Kumar and Madhubala fan. You see a poster of
their epic, Mughal-e-Azam in the song. "Madhubala was an iconic beauty who
breathed romance on screen,” he eulogises. Is Katrina like her? "No way!” he
exclaims. "She has her beauty and style!” Ali would take his guitar on
the sets and play and write songs between shots. Katrina confided that she too
wanted to learn how to strum the guitar. "I taught her a few chords. She was a
diligent student during the shoot but I don’t think she’s practiced much after
that,” he says. 
But the lessons came in handy when Katrina was filming her rock number. "I
was the one who urged her to go in for a more grunge look as opposed to her
usual squeaky clean appearance… Dark under eye make-up, leather and boots. It’s
gone down well,” muses Ali. There’s also talk that Ali wants to shoot the
video of a song from his album Jhoom in the near future.in February. And wants
to shoot some new music videos for it and is auditioning with that in mind. How
about getting Katrina on board? Says Ali, "She’s promised to appear in my video
if our film does the business I’ve predicted. It’s an achievable estimate and I
was bang on with Tees Maar Khan earlier!” |
