Tarali Sharma at her juron on Thursday. Picture by Eastern Projections

Dec. 1: There was music in the air when they met and the notes reached a crescendo when national award-winning singer Tarali Sarma exchanged wedding vows with talented young sound recordist Jintu Bordoloi today.

This wedlock, however, hums a dual tune as it is also a musical union which promises the duo’s most ambitious jugalbandi yet — a yet-to-be titled Assamese album towards the end of January next year.

The release of the album will be followed by the video shooting of all its eight songs by Bollywood biggies like technician Manu Gautam and director Dheeraj Akolkar, who had assisted Sanjay Leela Bhansali in his film Black.

This will be the first time that an Assamese album will be shot by Bollywood talents.

“We are planning the album in a big way. The best thing is that the beautiful songs of the album will be supported by video recording on the lines of MTV genre,” an elated Tarali told The Telegraph a few hours before the wedding rituals began at her Nigaji Paam residence.

“We want our hard work to pay off. Most of the times, even good audio albums don’t get the appreciation they deserve because of lack of publicity. The video recordings of the songs would do the needful publicity,” Tarali said.

Every song of the album has a unique story to narrate, giving ample space to the visual part. Besides, Tarali has made sure that all the lyrics are “special”.

The words have been penned by none other than poets Hiren Bhattacharryya, Hemanta Dutta and Sourav Saikia. Tarali herself has penned a few songs for the album herself.

The singer-composer has scored the music for the album and the entire recording has been done at Jintu’s studio, Dreams Audio Visual, at Zoo Tinali.

Tarali’s stardom skyrocketed to the national podium after she won the best female playback singer award at the National Film Awards 2003 for her soulful rendering of the devotional song Kimote bhakati karibo tomato... in the film Aakashitorar Kothare by Manju Bora.

In her forthcoming album, too, Tarali has fused traditional Assamese folk music with the contemporary, giving the album a pan-Indian touch.