Sorry if this has been posted before: >From Amitabh's blog - http://bigb.bigadda.com/2009/02/14/day-297/
A news paper review of the music of âDelhi 6â², spoke glowingly of it. Though I wish to correct the columnist on one matter. He talks of the track âGenda Phoolâ on the CD and mentions the track starting with Afro Sounds before the music kicks in. Wrong. They are not Afro Sounds or vocals. They are the vocal sounds made by the keepers of doves in residences in most parts of North India and in Uttar Pradesh, particularly. Doves in their hundreds are housed as pets virtually and kept in sweetly designed cottages on the flat roofed terracesâ of these homes. Every morning they are released from their cages, free to fly and move about. When they have had enough the owners come on the roof and make these sounds that you hear in the recorded CD, to bring them, the doves, back home. AR Rehman has most creatively used those authentic sounds and composed this extraordinary number, sung by the extraordinary Rekha Bharadwaj, wife of the extraordinary director Vishal Bharadwaj of Omkara fame, for the film. As you may have guessed by now after seeing some of the promos of âDelhi 6â², that the dove has a very significant and symbolic presence in the film. The number âMasakaliâ on the disc which has become almost an anthem in the country due to its popularity, is in fact the name of the dove. It plays an important part in the romance between Sonam and Abhishek. So there !!
