Singing a Tollywood promo!

Singers shooting promotional music videos for films, isn’t an uncharted territory in Bollywood. But now, the trend seems to be fast catching up in Tollywood.
The latest news is that Upal Sengupta, Anindya Chattopadhyay and Rupam Islam have shot videos for Amit Sen’s Notobor Not Out. Talking about the two videos, composer Debajyoti Mishra says, “Rupam has shot for the song sung by him.It’s called Bhitore baire udaan. The song is about someone who is trying to get back to his roots, but can’t. His agony finds voice through this song.
On the other hand, Ari appa, sung by Upal and Anindya is a friendship song, which through its gibberish lyrics, celebrates Kolkata.”Anindya, who loved the early morning shoot, canned by none other than the director himself, says, “We travelled the length and breadth of North Kolkata and even got into people’s homes to shoot. And since there’s no fun without food, we even had kochuri in the course of the shoot.”
The best part of the shoot, according to Upal, was when the duo got into a tram at Park Circus, without giving others a whiff of things.
“No one, apart from the conductor, understood that we were shooting as the camera was outside! That was interesting,” he explains. As part of the shoot, they also took a rickshaw ride that had people crowding the unit and even shot at Prinsep Ghat and Howrah Bridge, where the city’s skyline was deftly captured.
“There was no way one could play the music while we were on the rickshaw. So, we resorted to our cell phones, but that too was a bit of a problem, courtesy the noise around. Lip-syncing was a difficult proposition with the sun beating down on us, but we managed to pull it off,” he says.
The most memorable stop was however a North Kolkata gulley, where the unit managed to get into a random house that had a courtyard. “We went up to the residents of the house and requested them to allow us in. It was a different kind of a feel as those living in the house were busy with their daily chores. The fights over who would make it to the restroom first sent me on a nostalgic trip,” Upal adds.
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