Musician Monty Sharma recently revealed in an interview that Shah Rukh Khan called his background score for Devdas 'terrible' after director Sanjay Leela Bhansali made the superstar listen to it. Shah Rukh didn’t like the version of the background score which Bhansali had mixed differently without telling Monty.
In an interview with Lallantop, Monty recalled, “When I was working on Devdas, I completed the entire background (music). After I completed the work, Sanjay Ji went and mixed the whole background according to his taste. After postponing my wedding five times for Devdas, I was just two days away from my wedding when Sanjay Leela Bhansali called me. He said, ‘Monty, Shah Rukh saw the background and he said, ‘sabse bakwas background hai yeh’ (It is extremely bad)’. In reality, he used a cuss word.”
Monty added, “The problem was in a background music there are 16 stems. Each of a different instrument. Together, these sounds create a background. Now, Sanjay Ji, while mixing it taking whose ever help, has kept only the first and last stem, and silenced all the other 14 stems in the background. Upon hearing, it sounded bad.”
That’s when Monty told Bhansali about this error in the track and the ace director eventually realised his mistake. “I told him clearly. ‘Sanjay Ji, if you are going to do this all on your own, then please don’t approach me at all. You need to understand this is not your cup of tea. You don’t know the technicalities,” Monty said.
Monty also revealed how Bhansali pushed him to delay his wedding five times. “Sanjay would always be like, ‘The film will go to Cannes and you want to get married?’ I was like, ‘Everybody gets married.’ Then he was like, ‘Then you will also go on a honeymoon’, I shared, ‘Everybody does.’ Then he asked, ‘How will we complete the film?’ After hearing all this, I postponed my wedding about five times. It was after the fifth time when my wife very cooly said, ‘We don’t need to get married,’ This time, I realised that it is taking a serious turn.”
Monty is the nephew of Pyarelal Sharma, of the music composer duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal, known for making some memorable songs.
