Usha Uthup is in Bollywood again after a two-year lull. This time, she’s back for Revolver Rani ’s title song picturised on Kangna Ranaut. “I am happy it’s being liked and I hope the film does well too. In fact, you wouldn’t believe, I didn’t even know that the petite Kangna was the one whom I had sung for! I got to know only last month, after I watched Queen ,” she says, speaking over phone from Kolkata.
Usha says that she worked on the song between three cities: London, Chennai and Kolkata. “It helps that we are so technologically advanced. I was approached by the director Sai Kabir to record a song and I agreed. I was travelling so it was done over three places. When I sent it to him, he loved it. The only change he wanted were the words ‘Revolver Rani’. He told me to sing them in a certain way that he had planned. I did that and that was the end of it. When I saw Queen last month, I was amazed by the acting of Kangna and I said I’d love to have sung a song in this film for her. A little later I was pleasantly surprised to know that Revolver Rani was actually picturised on her,” she says.
Ask her how tough life in Hindi films has been for the singer and she says, “Plainly put, I was not the voice of the ‘good’ Hindi film heroine. Moreover, once I sang ‘Ramba Ho,’ everyone wanted me to sing versions of only that,” says the singer, who was once described as ‘hot chapati’ by the international press.
“There have been exceptions. I loved the jazz feel of my song ‘Aami Shotti Bolchi’ from Kahaani, for instance. My performance ‘Skyfall In A Sari’ is also something I love because my daughter and granddaughter sang with me and experiencing the three generations together was a high,” she says.
