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Review: The Musical Maverick; The Authorized Biography Of Shankar Mahadevan by Ashis Ghatak
When talking of singer Shankar Mahadevan, the term “breathless” immediately comes to mind.
The reference is to the 1998 song Breathless, which, in many ways, changed the young musician’s fortunes.
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Interestingly, the idea originally came from lyricist Javed Akhtar.
The story of Breathless occupies an entire chapter in The Musical Maverick: The Authorized Biography of Shankar Mahadevan by Ashis Ghatak.
Here, Mahadevan recalls: “Javed saab wanted to explore a song with a strange parabola, a strange journey, sometimes slow, sometimes fast, sometimes high or sometimes low. This instantly attracted me. He had shared the idea with other singers, but somehow they could not understand it.”
Akhtar, who has written the book’s foreword, went on to write songs for many soundtracks composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (SEL), comprising Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa.
These include po