“I would be at my innovative best tonight,” said Choli Ke Peeche-fame Ila Arun, popular Rajasthani folk-pop singer with a unique, husky voice, “as I have prepared an exclusive ‘funky-folk’ item for the Times Ahmedabad Festival.”
Jaipur-based Arun, who is first time to appear at a public event at the city on Thursday, said, “I have previously performed in Ahmedabad twice at private concerts and as this is my first live public performance I plan to treat city with unforgettable musical experiment.”
Leaving aside her idiosyncratic-style, Arun has chose to perform for the first time with her son-in-law Dhruv Ghanegar’s band Rani and rowdy rajas in Gujarat. “Audience of Ahmedabad is culturally receptive and can appreciate fresh compositions. Hence I plan to offer them fresh items,” she said.
During the performance Arun would play a queen of folk music who would be attended by six different folk music artists. “While there would be four rowdy kings playing fresh jazz music. We would begin the program with authentic folk, then the band would play fusion jazz and later would be my entry,” said Ila, who is famous for her super hit playback singing for A R Rahman composed internationally acclaimed Slumdog Millionaire.
Louis Banks’s son Jino Banks – a jazz guitarist is also part of the 11-artist Rani and rowdy rajas band. “Our team is set to present first-of-its-kind funky folk music performance at the event,” said Ila, who recently sang the promotional song Halla Bol for the Rajasthan Royals team in the IPL which became an instant hit.
