Rekha bhardwaj and vishal bhardwaj

Biography:

Rekha Bhardwaj, born on January 24, 1964, is an acclaimed Indian singer known for her versatile voice and live performances.

“If the music is for a film, then it is an individual process for him as a filmmaker and composer. “What I feel for him is beyond the realm of film casting. There was a longing for music, and I reached that phase, but then, there is always something else that you are looking for, right?” asked Rekha, who pointed out how even the most perfect of sunsets can bring untold sadness in someone’s mind.

“Even when you have everything in life, and you are looking at the perfect sunset, and you are with your loved ones doing things that you love the most, there is a chance that sadness engulfs you.

It’s too potent, what I have with him. To keep that line of protocol intact for a husband and wife in a professional context is the most difficult thing in the world."

Rekha adds that collaborations between the two of them happen only on one or two songs in a film that Vishal is directing or composing music for. So, there is something that affects you on a different level because no journey is the same,” said Rekha, adding that being part of the Osho school of meditation opened up her idea about life, and its embellishments.

The obligation is now on me to prove that she made the right choice’," he recalled. Her musical prowess has earned her two Filmfare Awards and a National Award, and she’s sung across various languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, and Malayalam.

Hailing from Delhi, she grew up in a family of six siblings.

Following a recent interview of Vishal, the earliest collaboration of the lyricist and music composer—for the Hindi dubbed version of the animated TV series Jungle Book, which was broadcast on Doordarshan in the 1990s—came into the limelight. So, sometimes I feel like ghar ki murgi dal barabar," says Rekha. The album’s success marked the beginning of her remarkable career.

I am simply collaborating as a singer if something matches my genre or speciality, only then I contribute," she says. The first film they worked on—Gulzar’s Maachis in 1996—saw Tabu win her first National Award for Best Actress, Gulzar winning Best Director and Vishal winning the RD Burman Award for music. Later, she received formal training from Pandit Amarnath, nurturing her musical talents.

In 1991, she married Vishal Bhardwaj, a noted film director, composer, and playback singer, whom she had met back in 1984 while preparing for an event at Hindu College in New Delhi.

Her career as a singer took off with her debut album ‘Ishqa Ishqa’ released in 2002, a decade after its inception.

“The flipside is, I am also able to say things to him that I would not be able to say professionally to others. “By virtue of working with him I will feel comfortable in any role," said Tabu. “It has taken really hard work to explore that aspect, and work on it. “[The lockdown] gave me the time to reconnect with myself and have an insight as to why I came here, and what was my dream.

Human nature is such that we tend to take each other for granted.