Composer Hesham Abdul Wahab on his new indie track, ‘Hamdam’

Newly-released euphony video Hamdam has the champion successful concern — composer Hesham Abdul Wahab, vocalist Hanan Shaah, lyricist-singer Shafi Kollam, rapper Haris Saleem and filmmaker Zakariya. Released arsenic a Bakrid special, the peppy way has a festive soundscape arsenic it celebrates the warmth successful quality relationships.

The communicative is astir 2 friends, a manager and a musician, played by Hanan and Hesham, respectively, who person a telephone telephone astir the demise of Kunjoottettan, their hamdam oregon companian/confidant. Apparently, helium was their biggest cheerleader portion they were pursuing their dream. They retrieve with gratitude and emotion however Kunjoottettan stood by them and encouraged their each effort towards attaining success.

“The communicative is by Zakariya ikka, who has directed the video. We person been successful interaction since I americium moving connected his adjacent movie. That was the clip erstwhile I composed this song. I instantly shared it with him. He loved it a lot, and that was erstwhile we decided to marque a video, with him directing it. Our archetypal program was to person a crippled based astir the Dubai-Fujairah border. But we dropped the thought erstwhile the West Asia situation escalated,” helium says.

Hesham says that Hamdam is idiosyncratic for some him and Hanan due to the fact that they person their careers due to the fact that they followed their passion. “We some could subordinate to the taxable of Hamdam, and Zakariya ikka is alert of however overmuch we emotion what we do. That is wherefore helium came up with this plot.”

Hesham adds that the intent of the opus is to marque everyone retrieve and deliberation astir that idiosyncratic who has helped them. “Whenever I was successful uncertainty arsenic a composer, determination were radical astir who encouraged maine to support moving and trusted my talent. Kunjoottettan stands for each those individuals who believed successful me.”

Hesham adds that helium has been looking guardant to moving with Hanan, who changeable to fame post-lock down with the covers helium posted connected his societal media grip and aboriginal with his archetypal tracks, the astir fashionable 1 being ‘Chirapunji mazhayathu’. Malayalam cinema soon made mode for him, and the fashionable of the batch is ‘Neeye punchiri’ successful Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra.

“When helium came to my workplace to grounds for Hamdam, it was my woman [Ayshath Safa], who suggested we effort his dependable for my song, ‘Indra’, successful my upcoming Tamil movie, Once More. In fact, helium sang ‘Indra’ earlier I recorded him for Hamdam.”

Getting Shafi Kollam, a trending sanction successful the Mapilappattu circuit, was purely coincidental, Hesham says. “I was astatine a edifice for meal during Ramzan wherever I met him. I requested if helium could constitute for my caller opus and helium instantly came connected board,” says Hesham. Shafi has besides sung successful the video with Hesham and Hanan. Haris Saleem of Street Academics has rendered English rap successful the track.

Hesham has returned to indie euphony country aft a agelong gap. “I had a thrust portion composing this song. I felt an vigor I didn’t person before, thing akin to the clip I was composing for Hridayam. There was a occurrence wrong me. I don’t cognize wherefore and however I felt similar that.”

Hamdam is the archetypal task of Aachus Production, a accumulation task launched by Hesham and his woman Ayshath. “Our imaginativeness is to make meaningful stories done music. If we tin evoke nostalgia successful six minutes oregon truthful past that is occurrence for us.”

Meanwhile, aft making his people successful Malayalam cinema, Hesham has emerged arsenic a sanction to reckon with successful Telugu, starting with Vijay Devarakonda-Samantha Ruth Prabhu-starrer Kushi. His biggest deed successful the connection was Hi Nanna, starring Nani and Mrunal Thakur. Manamey and 8 Vasanthalu are his different projects, too past year’s hit, The Girl Friend,with Rashmika Mandanna successful the lead.

“It feels large that I person worked with immoderate of the large names successful Telugu wrong a abbreviated span of my career.” Hesham’s caller Telugu release, Epic, featuring Anand Devarakonda is acceptable for release. The archetypal song, which is trending connected societal media, is sung by Malayalam vocalist Harishankar, making it his archetypal first opus successful Telugu.

He made his foray into Hindi cinema this twelvemonth with the opus ‘Aasman’, sung by Neeti Mohan and Jubin Nautiyal, in Do Deewane Seher Main, starring Siddhant Chathurvedi and Mrunal Thakur. “It happened aft Mrunal, who acted successful Hi Nanna, referred my sanction to the manager [Ravi Udyawar]. I did a fewer demos for them earlier I got the song.”

Besides Once More successful Tamil, which has Arjun Das successful the lead, Hesham is looking guardant to the merchandise of his archetypal Kannada movie, Brindavihari, successful a fewer months.

Reflecting connected his acquisition successful different languages, Hesham observes that helium has received immense respect arsenic a instrumentalist successful each languages. “That has overmuch to bash with their appreciation of Malayalam cinema and not conscionable my talent. They look up to our cinema due to the fact that of the contented and I americium getting a stock of their emotion since I beryllium to this industry.”

Hesham adds that it is important to accommodate his euphony to the connection helium is moving in. “Audience and listeners disagree from manufacture to industry, which I should support successful caput portion I tune the lyrics. That is important to marque the opus click with the audience. So, connected the whole, determination is simply a subject to it. Also, erstwhile a movie does well, the songs besides automatically get designation astir of the time.”

Meanwhile, his caller Malayalam task is already successful the pipeline.

Hamdam is disposable connected YouTube and assorted streaming platforms