Tushar Lall’s first original single celebrates the journey of Lord Buddha

After garnering global acclaim with his cover versions of popular international themes like Pirates Of The Caribbean, Titanic, Justice League, Imagine Dragons’ Believer, Coldplay’s

Fix You

, Harry Potter and Game Of Thrones, among others, the Indian Jam Project (IJP) founder-composer,

Tushar Lall

, has come up with his first original.

Titled Sifar, the track is high on Indian classical influences, something that marks Tushar’s USP as a musician. “I feel we are blessed to be born in a land which is known for its rich legacy of

Indian classical music

. Our indigenous instruments are highly underrated, and that’s why I made it the aim of the IJP to showcase the power of Indian classical instruments like the sitar,

sarangi

and

tabla

to the younger generation. Sadly, the Indian classical instruments have been painted in a boring light. Hence, I wanted the youngsters to know that these instruments are capable of playing anything. For instance, I played Pirates Of The Caribbean on the

sitar

to show the range of the instrument,” says Tushar, whose first original garnered over 30, 000 views soon after its release.

Sifar marks Tushar’s collaboration with The

Budapest

Orchestra. It features playback by singers Mame Khan, Tajinder Singh and Shatadru Kabir. The motive behind the single is to showcase the journey of how Siddhartha Gautama became Lord Buddha. The track features rich Hindi-Urdu lyrics that have been penned by the musician and his father, Raj Lall.

Ask Tushar what inspired him to come up with the single, and the young musician says, “I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of detachment. When I thought of this song, the first ideology that crossed my mind was Lord Buddha and how he left his royal household to look of sainthood. That appealed to me. When I started working on the composition, it was a symphonic piece, but I thought that since there is an ideology involved, the song should have words. That’s when my dad and I penned down the lyrics.”