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The 10 pm has dampened the festive spirit of the professional who come down from their workplace around 9 and have to wind up by 10. There is nothing wrong with trying different avenues to recover costsĭoes the 10 pm deadline act as a spoiler during Navratri festival? Sankalp spends over crores for the festival every year and getting advertisers over board and tying exclusively with television and radio platforms is a way to recover the crores being spent. Sankalp over the years has become larger and is one of the biggest dandiya venues in Mumbai. We try to keep up the festival fervour by singing traditional songs at Sankalp. Navratri has become more commercial with Sankalp tying up exclusively and film promotions happening at the venues.
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Also, the crowd coming for dandiya are more cosmopolitan with many non-gujaratis swaying to the beats although they don't have an understanding of the language. It is impressive to see youngsters inclined towards regional gujarati music in today's times. Some years back, the audiences wanted more Bollywood music to be sung at pandals but now majority of the crowd consists of youngsters and they look for more regional gujarati music. How has the audiences changed in the last decade you have been performing? The singer replacing him is not new in the troupe he has been performing with me for a couple of years We both are singers and our motto is to entertain audiences and we would be doing that this year as well, although differently. Newspapers had mentioned that he would be singing for the rival group but there is no rivalry in real sense, these are all publicity gimmicks. Also tell us something about the new singer Tushar Trivedi? There were news of your singing partner Nilesh Thakkar, joining the rival group. There are some changes which keep happening every year in the troupe but the musicians remain the same. There are some rhythmists and musicians in my troupe who have been with me since the time I started performing with Sankalp about 15 years back. Tell me something about your troupe members? It is only after numerous rehearsals with the troupe that a song is selected for performance for nine days When I come across a Bollywood track that can be squeezed in for dandiya, I hear it myself for 15-20 times and then convince the troupe to set the song with garba beats. This year, we won't be concentrating on contemporary Bollywood music as songs this year aren't the ones which could fit in for dandiya.
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How do you pick Bollywood music in your list? Which Bollywood songs would you be singing this year? So, we have to keep in mind that we give value for money for both types of audiences and keep them entertained We mainly look for melody in songs because there are an equal number of people who gather to hear the songs, apart from the ones coming to dance. I start searching for songs two months prior to the festival.
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When do you start the process of shortlisting songs for Navratri? I collect the latest CDs before Navratri, shortlist tracks, work on them to fit them into Gujarati beats for urban audiences. Every year before Navratri, I go to Gujarat and bring the latest songs - â€?garbe'. What is your take on the Bollywood songs being played at dandiya venues?īeing a Gujarati festival, the music at these venues should be more Gujarati folk music and we at Sankalp would be concentrating on singing more Gujarati songs. In an engaging conversation with 's Anita Iyer, Pathak comments on the commercialisation of Navratri, change in music preferences at dandiya venues, revival of non-film genres and much more. She is now all geared up to make the audiences groove to traditional Gujarati numbers. Her name is synonymous with the dandiya festivities in Mumbai, the annual song and dance routine that is staged by various organisations for the nine day Navratri festival.Īfter being in hibernation throughout the year, Falguni Pathak resurfaces at this time every year, looking the same she's always done Performing live each year for two decades during a single festival is no mean feat and Pathak has achieved that.