Amitabh Bachchan in the O re saawariya song in Aladin

You must have seen AB doing the hip-hop-ish Genie Rap alongside Riteish in the special music video for Aladin. Well, that’s not the only song Amitabh Bachchan has sung in the Sujoy Ghosh film. The other song to have the famous baritone actually happened by chance.

The song in question is re saawariya, that has been making all the noise because Bachchan wears the pink pagdi and white kurta from his Namak Halaal song Pag ghungroo.

Now, that song is sung by Sudesh Bhonsle. While music directors Vishal and Shekhar were working on the song, Bachchan just came up with an alaap and it sounded so good that Vishal-Shekhar immediately decided to incorporate the alaap in the song.

Says Vishal: “The alaap at the end of the song was never planned. Mr Bachchan came up with it, just like that. And we just had to put it in.”

What impressed everyone all the more, was the fact that Bachchan is not really professionally trained. “Doing an alaap is not easy and requires thorough practice. But Amitji did it wonderfully and that’s really amazing.” adds Vishal.

The film’s theatrical promo opens with this alaap in AB’s distinctive baritone.