Chandigarh, November 5
Punjabi pop singer Nirmal Sidhu is back with another album “Tere Ton Bagair” which was released by noted TV and film artiste and Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi head Jaspal Bhatti in Punjab Kala Bhavan here today.
The cassette, a Lucky Star presentation, is an attempt to revive the glory of Punjabi ‘bollian’ and present them in a modern form to suit the taste of younger generation. The album also has eight songs.
Nirmal, also a music director of calibre, has handled the music part of the album himself. Though, for Nirmal, the taste of music varies from melodious to loud dance numbers, for this album he has kept the intensity at a soothing level. Earlier, he had given music for albums of Hans Raj Hans, Sardul Sikander, Surjit Bindrakhia, Parminder Sandhu, Harbhajan Mann, Jaspinder Narula etc.
Nirmal, who shot into fame after hit songs like “Daru teri mari”, “Shishe ka dil” and “Ishq ch Rangde”, has already cut about 12 music albums so far. A graduate in music, Nirmal honed his skills under Prof Krishna Kant before entering this profession.
The title song “Tere ton bagair” for this album has been written by Nirmal himself while lyrics for other songs have been written by Chann Gurian Wala, Amar Mastana, Dr Malkiat Thind, Minta Chameli, Gurbinder Bath, Paramdas Ahir and Surinder Sarthak.