Uttar Dakshin : A Tribute To The Spirit of India

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Em Square Studio  is run by S. Paul Mathew, who had worked for long time for Crompton Greaves. He gave his job  for his passion for music and started this studio in Goregaon East. Apart from giving his studio on hire for recording, dubbing and croma. In between,   Paul does  find time to work for his first love i.e. music, he goes to Pandit Triloki for riyaz, record variety of songs when studio is not engaged for outside work thus created good repertoire.

Today he has taken his passion to next level, organizing a program Uttar Dakshin, a mix of Tamil and Hindi songs, and few fusions of both the languages. The beauty of this program was that all the musicians were not knowing Tamil language but composed for the Tamil songs, another brownie point is that except Farhan and Prince Singh all other singers S Paul, Sameer Vijay Kumar, P. Ganesh, Vishwanathan twin Swati & Sweta, Divya Venugopal all were not Hindi speaking but sung Hindi songs with equal ease.






This proves two points :
Despite South Indian languages are very rich but to reach larger audience and to touch base Indian diaspora, most of the non-Hindi speaking singers prefer to sing in Hindi. To be very honest, most of the big names in Bollywood singing and music composing were from from Non-Hindi background, but they attained  success, status and moolah because they sung for much bigger audience. 
Another point, as Bollywood attracted people from different ethnic and linguistic background, it has got the best talent which is just opposite to regional films where the artists and talents confined to a small linguistic region.

 This fact has increased reach of Bollywood to a much larger base and make its ground open for the best talent in the region. 

    

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