‘We needed a woman who regarded like a doll.’

{Photograph}: Sort courtesy Shefali Jariwala/Instagram

Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao have been those who found Shefali Jariwala and launched her to showbiz greater than 20 years in the past.

The administrators of her breakout tune, Kaanta Laga, which launched in 2002, that they had found the then college-going woman on Linking Street, northwest Mumbai.

Vinay Sapru goes again in time and tells Subhash Ok Jha, “From an engineering pupil to the nation’s heart-throb, it was an incredible journey.”

 

Shefali Jariwala’s sudden demise has shocked the leisure business.

She was our closest and dearest protege.

Her demise has saddened the business and I can see the response in every single place.

We change on (tv) channels, newspapers, Internet sites, and it is ‘Kaanta Laga Woman, Kaanta Laga Woman’ in every single place.

How did you get to know of her demise?

Divya Khosla messaged me at 1.30 am. She was the primary to convey the unhappy information.

From there on, it has been a floodgate of recollections, which is so robust to manage up with.

IMAGE: Shefali Jariwala in Kaanta Laga.

Inform us about your affiliation with Shefali Jariwala.

We needed a woman who regarded like a doll.

We found her at 19, and have been in contact for the reason that final 20 years.

Would not her demise expose the tough facet of showbiz?

Sure. Perhaps this occurs in different folks’s life however Shefali was by no means like that. From the time we noticed her on Linking Street until now, she was a bundle of power and a bundle of goals and hope.

She was by no means a sufferer of a circumstance.

What occurs when demise is so sudden and so younger, one at all times tries to see this a part of the life, that possibly the individual was a sufferer. However it was by no means like that.

She was a optimistic individual, at all times dreaming concerning the future.

Each time we met her, she was at all times so nicely turned up and nicely groomed.

{Photograph}: Sort courtesy Shefali Jariwala/Instagram

I consider she was non secular.

Apne ghar mein Ganpatiji rakhti thi, Nauratre ki deviyan rakhti thi aur bulaati thi.

She was pleased with all the things that she obtained.

She was very content material with being the Kaanta Laga woman.

She grew to become the heartthrob of the nation.

She took it on and lived it to the fullest.

How a lot was your model of Kaanta Laga influenced from Lata Mangeshkar’s unique rendition?

Whenever you’re recreating a tune, you may at all times tamper with the rendition of the vocals.

However our transient was that, do not tamper with the rendition of the vocal as a result of that was sung by the Goddess herself.

I mentioned, sure, we’re recreating the tune, however there can’t be anybody who can render it higher.

So you will note that the association has modified, the music devices have modified, however the vocals have been saved the way in which Lataji immortalised them.

Lataji has been an inspiration.

IMAGE: Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao with Shefali Jariwala. {Photograph}: Sort courtesy Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao/Instagram

However Shefali was not in a position to make a lot headway after Kaanta Laga.

See, I will inform you what, when you might have such an enormous success and such an enormous iconic factor.

After we designed the DJ Doll album and made the Kaanta Laga tune, we mentored Shefali, groomed her and ready her for one thing that was near our coronary heart.

She labored arduous, the rehearsals went on for nearly three-and-a-half months.

Then the consequence was for everybody to see.

Shefali was the face of Kaanta Laga.

I nonetheless bear in mind the Bombay Instances cowl. She was featured because the woman who was breaking all data with this tune.

She got here to our workplace with some 10 copies of Bombay Instances and was saying, ‘Sir, I am on the Bombay Instances cowl!’

Vigorous, stuffed with positivity, stuffed with goals in her eyes.

It is not that she did not do extra work in all these years, or did not do the rest.

However this was the one iconic factor she did.

Was she pleased with what she had?

Sure. She used to do reveals everywhere in the world.

She used to drop in at our workplace, blissful and affluent.

From an engineering pupil to the nation’s heart-throb, it was an incredible journey.

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