Here's Ananya with a quick rendition exclusively for Deccan Herald. The singer of Garbhadi considers her mom her greatest critic, as "one who keeps me grounded and someone who I have always looked up to." If I’m eating a donut, I’ll understand what's in it: here’s sugar, maida, oil etc." I observe what’s inside the language, its nuances. I learn them from friends, from songs and conversations. After I sang, I sent it to my Malayalam friends to ask if it sounded anything like the language. I was told Malayalam was difficult to learn. So obviously, I wanted to do just that. "During multi-lingual recording, translators help us out. Singers: Vijay Prakash, Santhosh Venky, Sachin Basrur, Puneeth Rudranag Jokae. So this was just about practising, then."
And along came singing the songs in Hindi, the language I had studied in school. "Do I know Telugu? I spent two days immersing myself in Telugu songs, movies and conversations with my friends. "Then came another question: Do you know Tamil? I had scored for the film Karuppan (2017) starring Vijay Sethupathi (Usire, Usire). I went there with disbelief and thought 'Come on, as if I'll be asked to sing for Yash’s film!' But I recorded the song. "But then, he asked me to sing the final version of the song (Garbhadi). So, when he said he had convinced the director and the producer of KGF about the strength of my voice, and often asked me to keep my voice in a good state, I just thought it was in line with his general cheery disposition." I have sung (practiced) tracks for films under his guidance before. The duration of the song is 2 min, 40 sec.
"Ravi Basrur (music director of KGF) is a jovial person through and through. Garbadhi is a song from the album KGF Chapter 1 (Kannada) which is sung by Ananya Bhat.
The 25-year-old musician, a champion of Kannada folk songs, says she got lucky with the opportunity to sing for KGF: Chapter 1, but her experience began with disbelief.Įxcerpt from our interview with Ananya (look out for the full interview soon!): She has recorded songs in all five languages. Raised in Mysuru, born in Ankali in Belagavi, and currently anchored in Bengaluru, singer Ananya Bhat is the voice in the songs Garbadhi (solo), Sidila Bharava, Dheera Dheera and Koti Kanasugalu of the multi-lingual film KGF: Chapter 1.