After a 3-year hiatus, Punjabi rapper Juggy D returns to Mumbai to shoot a video for the title track on Mumbai-based DJ B Projekt's debut album. The Guide dropped in for on-set action
After a 3-year hiatus, Punjabi rapper Juggy D returns to Mumbai to shoot a video for the title track on Mumbai-based DJ B Projekt's debut album. The Guide dropped in for on-set action
Five years ago, when London's South Hall Punjabis invaded music television in India, rapper Juggy D was right up front clad in colour-coordinated Adidas tracksuits, ears pierced with jarring diamond studs, spiked-with-a-vengeance hair-dos, proclaiming love for our colourful Indian culture through Bhangra moves. With singer Jay Sean, he produced one of the biggest Punjabi hits, Nachna Mere Naal, and went on to croon Dil Vich Hum Tum (with Veronica) in the Saif-Rani Bollywood starrer, Hum Tum. This time around, he teams up with Mumbai DJ B Projekt, who is a regular at city clubs Play and Prive. He sheds the tracksuit, still carrying the classic buoyancy of a crazed Punjabi. He tells us how this visit marks no performances for him; only shoots and recordings; he'd just returned from Delhi having shot another video shoot for an upcoming UK-based album, and is simultaneously working on his new album.
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DJ B Projekt spins regularly at Play and Prive, and is set to launch his debut original compilation next month |
Model Bruna Abdullah shooting with
Juggy D for Ni Soniye at Filmistan Studios, Goregaon (W) |
Unfazed with a jam-packed schedule and a zillion re-takes at Goregaon's Filmistan Studios, he and DJ B Projekt were shooting the first video of the DJ's all-original debut production effort. Titled Blindfolded, the 10-track album features Juggy D on one track (and on its House remix), 8 original Punjabi tracks, including one with the
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| In between takes: Juggy D and B Projekt share a breather on set |
Dr Zeus of Kangana fame, and two more with US-based G-Deep. Twenty five-year-old B Projekt aka Bunty, who studied music production in London, is popular for spinning everything from Hip Hop and Bollywood to Punjabi and House, and it had been a dream to mix his own music before an enthused crowd. Over shrill orders being hurled by brusque Assistant Directors, he fills us in on how he made that possible. "I went to London to look for a vocalist, and one day at the studio, Juggy D walked in. He happened to work with one of the same producers I had worked with. So, I handed him my music," he says. "And the next thing I know, I am recording vocals for the track," cuts in Juggy D.
At the video shoot for Ni Soniye, model Bruna Abdullah sways her hips, dips and curves in a shimmering gold cat suit. Juggy D and B Projekt take turns to woo her in front of the camera. A bunch of B-Boys and B-Girls, among a sea of street dancers form a side sequence. The chorus is shot amid stunning curtains of Bino lights, and the backdrop graphics and energy change with every new look.
Producedu00a0 by Plan B Entertainment under RRB Productions, Blindfolded will release this September, and the video will air mid-September.
