Updated On: 29 July, 2024 06:26 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
Vibrant, peppy, and starkly different from his previous songs, Shopping, says Raahul Jatin is his way to “explore myself as an artiste”

Raahul Jatin
Raahul Jatin acknowledges that his latest release, Shopping, a vibrant and peppy number with a host of commercial trinkets, is a deviation from his style of music. “I wanted to do something different to see if I enjoyed it. In doing so, I was hoping to find a new version of myself. Watching myself in the music video moved me. I saw myself simply having fun, and dancing around, and I thought it looked nice. I’d like to do that again,” says the singer, asserting that the beauty of independent music lies in an artiste’s ability to follow his instincts.
Raahul’s composer-father Jatin Pandit has enjoyed a successful run in the Indian film industry, a space that the youngster has kept at an arm’s length. A discussion around which of the two industries would be more commercially viable, he says, has never ensued between his father and him. “The only thing that my dad has told me is that [music-making] is a difficult business and that I need to keep going. Nowadays, there’s barely any music in films, anyway.”