I guess blood is thicker than water.”įor her part, Zara is rapturous when asked to pick her favourite songs from her mother’s rich repertoire. Though her voice is not at all like mine, sometimes listeners mistake it for my voice. She has the grain of Western music and the texture, feel and melody of Indian classical music. It is a blend of two worlds – the East and the West.
IS ALY SALMA AGHA KHAN ALIVE PROFESSIONAL
Salma readily spoke to me about Zara and maternal pride laced her professional assessment. “Amma is a lethal combination of a velvety, classically trained voice and drop-dead gorgeous looks. Sometimes I feel I’m crushing on my mother’s look.” The daughter exults, “Amma is a lethal combination of a velvety, classically trained voice and drop-dead gorgeous looks. Zara is evidently enamoured of her mother’s orotund voice and actress-singer Salma Agha, who dazzled audiences in the 1982 blockbuster Nikaah, is clearly her daughter’s prime inspiration. “Of late,” Zara adds, “I am troubling my mother to help me brush up on my vocal training.” Zara Khan pouting with mum Salma Agha who says “Zara has a unique voice”
I remind myself that unlike your performance on the big screen, they can’t see you, they can only hear you.” Though she isn’t a highly trained singer, Zara says with authority: “Singing isn’t about following notations, you have to act with the aid of your voice, infuse the words with emotions. She is excitedly waiting for the release of Fakeeran, “a super dancey track with T-Series” and a single, Dulhan, “which I can’t wait to share with everybody.” She has crooned Yeh Haalat for Nikhil Advani’s Amazon Prime show, Mumbai Diaries, and Nayee Dhoop, which will feature in another of the filmmaker’s shows. Zara is now flooded with assignments, including a remix of Lehenga in Satyamev Jayate 2 and Sakhiyan in Bell Bottom, an Akshay Kumar-Vani Kapoor thriller. A song recording she had done with her young composer friends, Om and Dikshant, led to noted music director Tanishk Bagchi insisting she record for him too. Having got the stamp of approval from her mother, Zara was ready to reach out to a wider audience. When she sent the track to her mother, Salma’s first reaction was one of disbelief, quickly followed by a shower of heartfelt compliments. On hearing the recording, it dawned on Zara that the tonal quality of her voice had changed for the better. She discovered her latent talent for singing in 2019, accidentally, when she was thrown into a vocal booth by friends. She sang the Barbadiyan number in the film when she was 17, and with hindsight analyses, “I don’t think my actual tone had even developed back then.” She discovered her latent talent for singing in 2019, accidentally, when she was thrown into a vocal booth by friends But the Yash Raj film sailed into oblivion like a drifting piece of logwood. Zara came to the industry to create a niche for herself as an actress, playing the romantic lead opposite Arjun Kapoor in Aurangzeb (2013). I firmly believe in Imam Ali’s sagacious words, ‘What’s yours will find you.’ I first heard this saying in 2017 and positivity just blossomed.”
Two years later, Zara harks back to that evening and smiles, “Can you believe it, today, I am singing in six forthcoming projects!” She adds thoughtfully, “We think we know what we want but we don’t know what we need or what’s best for us. “May be some day in the future,” she demurred. Zara’s youthful voice was inflected with yearning and she had a clear gift for expression. Zara Khan regaled us with her singing and her breathy rendition of her mother Salma Agha’s popular song, Faza Bhi Hai Jawan Jawan gave me goosebumps. After the release of my book 101 Haiku, Anil Virwani invited a select gathering of my friends to his sea-facing house at Worli for dinner.
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