Mumbai: Playback singer Neeti Mohan says she has observed that a woman gets fewer lines in a duet track for a film, but personally she emphasizes on the importance of a song rather than the length of her part.
Neeti told “I think last year, I was feeling it too much that the female part in a duet song is much shorter than the male part in the song, but I think it is slowly changing. This year I did not have such a song.
“In my song ‘First Class’ from the film ‘Kalank’, I was okay with the shorter part in the duet because it was to praise the man. In the ‘Bharat’ song ‘Aithey aa’ also I have a substantial part. My problem starts when I see that in a situation when the girl is telling her feeling, say crying or laughing, the song is sung by a male singer. Why?”
She said she understands that a film song is always situational.
“But why even in a situational song, a male voice is preferred over a female? Having said that, I do not always go by the lines or length of the song but the importance of it,” explained the “Jiya re” fame singer.
Neeti started her career in music in 2003. She was one of the winners of the Channel V music competition “Popstars”.
She says playback singing was a progression as her initial musical inspiration was all the pop artistes of the 1990s, including Lucky Ali, Shubha Mudgal and Alisha Chinai among others.
Since then, she has managed to maintain her career in independent music as well as in Bollywood playback and live concert tours. With some of the superhit songs like “Ishq wala love”, “Saadi galli aaja”, “Mohabbat buri bimari” and “Nainowalo ne” among many others.
She is also travelling globally with musicians like A.R. Rahman, Shankar Mahadevan and Pritam.
Sharing how travelling offers her a broader view of life, Neeti said: “I think travelling teaches you that there is a change which is constant and you have to develop an adaptive nature to be part of this celebration and to be a part of this journey called life. It gives a great understanding of people and their culture.
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