amitabh bachchan shah rukh khan and if reports are true even hrithik roshan have sung for hindi movies and now its the turn of none other than pankaj kapur to lend his voice to songs of kishore kumar and mukesh for the soundtrack of bhavna talwars awasthitalking about why he wanted to use kapurs voice composer debajyoti mishra says pankaj plays a hotel singer who entertains by singing old hindi songs both bhavna and i had heard him singing and requested him to try the songs besides he had himself done the chants for bhavnas dharm pankaj loves kishore kumars numbers and for him the whole exercise was like saying dialogues to a tune last week we recorded the numbers in mumbai the numbers that have already been recorded include hum thhe woh thhe zindagi ek khwab hai gore gore and babu samjho ishare besides these he is also supposed to sing the numbers ajeeb dastan and aa chalke tujhewhile this sure is good news mishras use of a singer in dharm has come under the scanner vocalist ambarish das whose voice has an uncanny similarity to that of ustad rashid khans was credited as sayed ambrish in the audio track of dharm mishra claims to have changed ambarishs name and also his religion only because he felt that the new identity would sell in mumbai initially i had composed the song with rashid ustad rashid khan in mind rashid is a friend of mine and i consider him to be a god in music somehow we couldnt record that number with him then i recorded it with ambarish he sang it really well says mishraif the rendition was so good why then did he change his name ambarish says friends called me up to ask whether i had changed my name and religion when i replied in the negative they asked me why my name in the duet uphaar with aanchal had been credited as sayed ambrish in the soundtrack for dharm nobody even got to know that i had sung for this filmmishra on his part says mumbai i fear has a lot of apprehensions about whether a bengali singer from kolkata can pronounce hindi properly it was my apprehension that ambarish might just have lost out on the assignments had i used his original name being his wellwisher i decided to do this let me make it very clear that the producer had no say in my decision of ambarishs nameproducer sheetal talwar on his part says this is the first time im hearing about the fact that ambarishs name has been changed the production team went ahead with the list provided by the music director this song was recorded in kolkata debus entire team has people from all across the country they have all been given their due credit we are not parochial at allwell so much for just lending a name