Music lovers from Assam are proud with the success of Alaap a.k.a. Dudul Saikia in Bollywood after legendry Dr Bhupen Hazarika and Zubeen Garg. Dudul joins the select group of Assamese with Zubeen, Debojit Saha, Banajyotsna who are recognized as the voices of India.
Dudul’s music in the latest release of State’s music sensation Zubeen Garg, Zindagi, is receiving critical applause in Bollywood. He has done the composing, music arrangement and audio concepts for Zindagi.
To celebrate this success, Dudul, now a Mumbai based music director and a composer, flew back to Guwahati.
“The audio album Zindagi, is a very close association of my own feelings expressed in a musical manner. It contains songs and ballads of various emotions punctuated by good musicians through their skill and expressively articulated by singers like Zubeen, Chitra and Safaquat Amanat Ali,” said Dudul Saikia.
Apart from his works in Zindagi, Alaap has a number of achievements in his kitty. He has composed and provided background music for many television soaps with the Star Plus and Zee TV among others. He has worked for a Bollywood movie and composed jingles for many advertisements.
Apart from these, Alaap has also created and composed music for more than twenty audio albums in Assamese and other regional languages.
“It has been fifteen years from now, when I went to Mumbai in the pursuit of my dream and from then, I have been constantly working in this field to carve a niche for myself,” Saikia said.
Lately, he is arranging and programming music for the music directors like Annu Malik and Adesh Srivastava. His list of recent releases include songs composed for Vaisali Samant’s album titled ‘V’ and yet to be released songs for albums of Sunita Rao, Roop Joharie, Shafaquat Ali and MS Abeer.
Apurba Bora, Prescott, Arizona
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