KARUNYA

Karunya is Sanjay Dutt’s new voice

ndian Idol runner-up N.C.Karunya has bagged a plum singing assignment in Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Munnabhai 2nd Innings. Producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra has got the talented and versatile singer to record a track ‘Aane chaar aane...’, a track that was filmed the same evening after the recording on May 8 on `Munnabhai’ Sanjay Dutt. The song was written by Swanand Kirkire and composed by Shantanu Moitra. Chopra had reportedly booked the studio for five hours in view of Karunya’s rawness, but Karunya was through with the recording in fifteen minutes with a ’perfect’ take. Vinod ’discovered’ Karunya in a rather interesting way. He was in Los Angeles last month, when his sister who was visiting, burst into his room in tears, because Karunya had lost the Indian Idol title. Chopra decided to find out who Karunya was as soon as he returned to Mumbai. The film’s music composer Shantanu Moitra did Karunya’s voice-test - and he was on. Chopra has sworn to make Karunya a top singer, fulfilling the prophesy of Indian Idol judge Anu Malik at the Indian Idol Finale that whether Karunya won the title or not he would one day be the Numero Uno singer in Hindi films. Ironically, Anu Malik is the only principal member of the Munnabhai MBBS team who is not in the sequel!