One of my most awaited dreams come true!!

This song struck her mind so hard that the vibes created through that led us to release it with a professional set up!

Yes! That’s was a new thing for me. Till now, you might have noticed that, although the content in the channel was good (As they say, let me know what you thing :)), but it was not through any formal music production and cinematography process. For this upload, we could not stop ourselves to go deep into it and put some more bucks to bring it up as it is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4oC-whOAY_A

I know I told you that I would be sharing the stories and some behind the scenes experiences with you for every upload. So, this happened the following way for VE MAAHI!

One fine day, I was searching for some good guitar teacher where I could go with my naive understanding of this beautiful and amazing instrument and start to gain some basics of how to play it as a professional. Although, I had tried take out maximum output through Google, a global teacher for our generation, I still felt the need to go to some actual teacher and embark on this melodious journey through those fascinating and magical strings!! My quest for the ‘Guitar-Guru’ Landed me to ‘Massive Music Studios’. Although, the said journey of Guitar learning did not start the same day, but I found someone who could be useful to help me out with music production and recording.

Going further, after an year almost, when this sweet song got released in the movie Kesari, it was easy for Harpreet to get caught in the words of this song (as she understands PUNJABI better than me, rather anyone whom I know 🙂 )

And she could not stop herself but insisted me to record this. As I was quiet accustomed to the way it had worked for my previous uploads, I took my guitar in my hand and started gathering related chords for this song.

But, this song is so amazing that we really could not settle to what I had brought out through my 7 days’ of all the hard efforts. This led us back to KD (Krunal) from Massive Music with a raw whats app recording being shared with him.

And that is how we landed into a professionally produced track. Sushmit from Massive has done an awesome job here! The soothing touch to the cover and apt use of instruments, makes it more melodious.

It was 23rd April, when we decided to record this song. After an almost weeks time, they had produced this amazing track which when we listened to, in the studio, with all that expensive and ‘Massive’ Set up, we both felt an eye bulging ‘Aww!’ kinda emotion! It was so awesome that we absolutely loved it!

Now was the time to go and put in some voice into that track. Simple run through of the song was not what we wanted to do. We wanted something really romantic, soothing touch to it with a new taste altogether. Sitting with KD, who is this crazy musician, you get a lot of new ideas right on the spot only! We reached up to the half way of the song and suddenly the alaap of Doorie started playing in my head. I thought it goes well with the tone of the song here. KD and Harpreet also agreed to that and that is how Doorie got attached to this song. Going further, Leja Leja was added by KD. But, Harpreet had an idea to create something new instead of keeping it straight as is the original song. She added few new and amazing words to it. As she kept on insisting to rework on the lyrics part of the main body of the song, the ”Tennu mai chhadna nahi …” part is also her own creation. That definitely had added a new essence to this song.

We were done with the audio recording and it was time for the Video now!! The most crucial part when it comes to youTube cover songs! Why? That’s because youtube viewers like to watch what they like. And it is very difficult to guess what exactly they would ‘like’ and what not.

Jumping from one to another, we had too many ideas on how to shoot the video. One thing was final, that we want some in-studio shots. We met with Rajat, who is a person behind the camera for this song, and explained him all the idea. It was at around 4 PM and we went to his studio. we took few shots there (which are not part of the final video now :P). But, we did not find the lights good enough for making it final. We came back to the venue where it all got shooted in the evening 5.30 PM or so. The light was quiet ready to return back to home as it had completed his working hours. And we wanted to complete the shoot before it signs out for the day! Rushing here and there, trying out different locations we completed 3-4 top-to-end videos for the song.

Believe me, keeping the romantic expressions on the face amidst all that hustle, was a challenge that we had to pass! I think, we did pretty good job there :). Let me know what do you think?

The clippings were ready but still the in-studio shots were not available with us. It was 9 in the evening and then we rushed to Massive Studios. Got the in-studio shots done. And, now was the part of job where, supposedly, we were not supposed to get much involved. Yes, the editing. But, trust me, that is the most time consuming task for any video release. I and Rajat sat for around 2.30 a.m in the morning and still were not completed with it. I had a though in my mind that I might launch the video on my Mom’s birthday which is 8th May. But, we could barely finish the final touch to the video by then. So, that day got passed. No worries, it was a belated but a beautiful gift I suppose.

11th May 2019, I planned it to make it live by 1 PM. Scheduled all the necessary details for this time and boom! It was on!!

Me and Harpreet were so much excited to see the rising views day by day! Appreciations from all across the country and some from outside as well, gave us great strength and a feeling of fulfillment.

Thanks to you guys!! For all the love and support! That give us happiness through all the hard work put in!

Keep watching my Channel for More such beautiful videos and keep reading for the stories behind!

Click to watch – Ve Maahi – https://youtu.be/4oC-whOAY_A