‘I won’t feel shy to say that the faces of reality shows are more popular than me’- Akriti Kakar

‘Naam Gum Jayega, Chehra Ye Badal Jayega, Meri Awaz Hi Pehchan Hai’ this line absolutely matches to her because, she is a person who would prefer to be recognized by her work and she believes that this is a compliment in itself for any artist. She lent her voice to songs in movies like ‘Kuch Meetha Hojai’, ‘Chup Chupke’, and ‘Namaste London’, ‘Shakalaka Boom Boom’, Good Boy Bad Boy etc. and has movies like Mummy, Welcome, Harry Puttar and other international projects in her hand. One should have recalled her name from their subconscious mind with these movie names. Yes, absolutely she is Akriti Kakar. She was recently in capital; we took the opportunity to bring some thing about her recent releases. Here is an abstract of our conversation with her….

Congrats Akriti, 4 films released at a stretch with your songs in it?
Yes, with the grace of God every thing fell in place, and this is a great pleasure for me.

Which song you like the most in these recent releases?
With a grin, here I need to answer politically. Well, the title song of ‘Jonny Gaddar’ is been special for me, which I sung for Shankar, Ehsaan & Loy. Thought I have been with them on stage since one and a half year, It was a great feeling to be with them in studio recording, I am very much thankful to them as they chose me for this unusual and un conventional song. I never sung this type of song before.

Akriti Kakkar

You have got attracted towards music at a tender age? Can you tell us some thing about this?
It was my mother who inspired me & she is my first Guru. I started my musical journey from my home only after that I went to Shri Vyomakesh Banerjee for further training in music.

One can hardly see you in lime light, is there any strong reason behind this? Don’t you think visibility is very important for popularity?
Well, visibility makes lot of difference, through visibility you will be more recognition, more work, and popularity. I won’t be shy to say that the faces of reality shows are more popular than me. Earlier I did couple of musical shows on ETC Punjabi channel, I used to spend lot of time there hence hardly I used to get time for my Riyaaz, and I can’t compromise as far as my Riyaaz is concerned. That is the reason why I stopped doing it. One can hardly see me in any Page3 or any other Party, because I want to give my entire time to singing so that I could give my 100% to those songs which comes to me.

Akriti Kakkar

Are you planning for acting in movies?
Replied with a smile… No, I am concentrating on my singing only and I want to establish my self as good singer. I would like to perform only in my album videos. But generally I get offers for acting.

What do you think about piracy and what steps should be taken to eradicate piracy?
Piracy has become a very big predicament for music industry, Recently Adlabs and Big Music has come up with a nice concept of releasing a CD of single song, generally people would not like to spend Rs.200/- or 175/- for a single song that is the reason why they will download the song or they will go for pirated CDs. I think this a good step towards the eradication of piracy.

Akriti Kakkar

What are your future planes?
Singing, singing, singing and singing.

— H.S. Communication