Eight years of struggle and a success story begins

Bharat Khanna

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 26

Sunny and Inder Bawra, known as Bawra brothers, are happy that they have managed to take the legacy of their grandfather, Mahinder Bawra, forward by making a name for themselves in the Hindi film industry.

Applauded for their music creation ‘Masoom Sa’ in the critically-acclaimed film ‘Madaari’, the Bawra brothers were at home here today and talked to Bathinda Tribune about their musical journey.

“In more than eight years of struggle in Mumbai, we faced disappointments and failures but we learnt from a boxing match — do not go out of the ring. At least one would not be disqualified. This remained in our mind and we decided to not to step back,” says Sunny-Inder Bawra.

They composed music for several TV shows, including ‘Devon ke Dev...Mahadev’ aired on Life OK, ‘Maharana Partap’ on Sony, ‘Jai Shree Krishna’ on Colors, ‘Veer Shivaji’, ‘Ashoka’, ‘Sankatmochan Mahabali Hanuman’, ‘Navya’, ‘Siya ke Ram’, ‘Haatim’, ‘Jhaansi ki Rani’, ‘SIya Ke Ram’ and others.

It was in 2008 when they got a chance for the first time to create music for ‘Jai Shri Krishna’ on colors TV.

“Along with my grandfather, I used to visit Qila Mubarak, where he used to recite the history of Razia Sultana. Many times, he would recite us stories of Mahabharata, Ramayana, and other epics that helped us a lot in our work. We got the best music award in 2015 for ‘Razia Sultana’. We composed music for 821 episodes of ‘Devon ke Dev...Mahadev’ TV show. In ‘Rocky Grandson’ we composed background music, besides three songs in that film. We composed a song for the film ‘Ankur Arora Murder Case’ and background music for ‘Hate Story-2’ and ‘Hate Story-3’,” Bawra brothers said.

“I have performed in operas such as ‘Shaheed Udham Singh’ and others,” says Inderjit Singh (Inder), who went to Mumbai in 2000 while his brother Paramjit Singh (Sunny) joined him in 2004 after completing his graduation.

“Our love for our town knows no bounds. We have spent our childhood here. After I completed my Class XII, I reached Mumbai to work in the field of music and I feel I am still a student. It was Pawan Atwal, my father’s friend, who brought us to Mumbai and looked after us. Our childhood days were spent with our grandfather from whom we learnt the nuances and he became the reason for our success. I was too young when my grandfather used to make us sit along and play his instruments. During the screening of ‘Maddari’, Amitabh Bachchan asked about the music composers for the theme song and wished to meet us. It was dream come true moment,” says Inder Bawra.