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HAVE A PERVERSE ATTRACTION TO CHAOS: CATE BLANCHETT
Nikita Deb
Singer Shashaa Tirupati has a long standing association with composer AR Rahman. The singer has sung multiple songs for Rahman with their latest collaboration being for Dil Bechara’s album. And the song Khulke Jeene Ka, is special for Tirupati for a number of reasons.
“With Khulke Jeene Ka, there is an extended sentiment post the demise of its lead actor. Seeing Sushant (Singh Rajput) full of life swaying on screen to a melody you’ve sung creates a strange ambivalence of emotion in these oblique circumstances,” says Tirupati, adding that she always admired Rajput for his acting and academic skills.
“This song suddenly becomes one connecting-piece to him, considering I’d never personally known or met him.
As much as it hurts on one end, a new release is celebratory for everyone who’s put their time, patience and heart into the art. I wish to celebrate Sushant’s legacy with this track,” says Tirupati.
The singer, who has sung in films such as Ok Jaanu (2017) and a number of South Indian films, says that for her, every recording experience with Rahman is “like being in an exciting whirlwind of sorts”.
“Dil Bechara happened in a similar fashion. I was in Chennai at the time this song was being composed. I was called quite unexpectedly to the studio. I was given a brief of singing in a more conversational tone, no unessential dramatisation. I
Actror Cate Blanchett says she has a “perverse attraction to chaos”, and revealed that she and her husband Andrew Upton tend to take on more than they can handle.
In an interview to Radio Times, she confessed that she “surfs” through her hectic lifestyle for months before breaking down from stress, reports dailymail.co.uk.
“I think I have a perverse attraction to chaos. Both my husband and I freelance, I have four children… I think the way I deal with chaos is to surf it until it’s been going on for six months and then you burst into tears,” she said, adding: “But it’s always the small things in life that make you burst into loved that because I strongly resonate with an “in your face” and very matter-of-fact kind of songwriting. I heard the melody and the multiple directions it was going in and the way it flew had me wake up the next morning with the tears. It’s never over the major things, because you can somehow deal with those issues. It’s the little things, like the car not starting.”
Blanchett, 51, added, “My husband and I have been together for a long time. It’s wonderful, but it takes work. We’re always biting off more than we can chew — but that’s what makes life interesting.” song ringing in my head. Being someone who doesn’t remember a melody rendered for hours in the studio the moment I step out, I think that was quite an interesting situation,” she signs off.