Mumbai, August 22: Apart from casting him as Ringmaster, a blend of rogue and angel with a touch of the supernatural, director Sujoy Ghosh has managed to make Sanjay Dutt sing a song for his film, but is now in a dilemma about where in the film he should place the item number.
“`Alladin` is already complete. I can`t find a place for it! But the way my choreographers Bosco-Caesar have shot the song, it`s is too cool to be used only as a promotional video. They`ve chorus dancers somersaulting in the air, foreigner-dancers doing flips? It`s a dream come true for me as a director, how can I leave audiences out of it,” Ghosh told reporters.
He now plans to either incorporate the song in the plot or use it in the end titles.
“I can`t let it go to waste by using it only as a promotional film. Even if I did my producers would never allow it,” he said.
The director says before they could think of a suitable singer for Sanjay, the actor himself was hooked to the beat.
“Dutt Saab, that`s what I call him after his dad`s demise, sang the track `Maya` for my film `Home Delivery` though he wasn`t part of the cast. For `Alladin`, my music composer Vishal created a song `Giri giri re bijuriya` which was supposed to be the signature time for Dutt saab`s character named Ringmaster,” said Ghosh.
“Though he didn`t know it, we always intended to get him to sing it. No one else could have. And I was overjoyed when Dutt saab agreed. It is a very cool song. And he`s done justice to it,” he added.
Once the song was recorded, Ghosh convinced Sanjay that they must shoot for it.
“Why let it go to waste? I convinced Dutt saab to act in the song. It was too good a song not to shoot it would`ve amounted to criminal wastage of good pop art.”
This is not Sanjay`s first singing assignment. Earlier, he sang in “Khubsoorat” and “Zinda”. He even sang with Asha Bhonsle in her album.
–IANS