bangalore number crunching with rahul sharma is easy hes 30 and time traveller is his 30th album to hit the music stores in the city on saturday evening for a brief interaction with music fans at planet m sharmas album was formally released by danseuse vani ganapathy ive always been fascinated by the science fiction concept of travelling back and forth in time said the santoor player and as a musician i find myself living the life of a traveller the son of santoor maestro pandit shiv kumar sharma hes also collaborated with renowned pianist richard clayderman if you open up a piano the entire web of strings resembles a santoorworking with him was exciting since ive heard his music as a kid and we came up with some interesting results he told the eager audience that had gathered sharma has also composed music for kunal kohlis mujhse dosti karogei was also offered kohlis next hum tum by yash chopra but couldnt take it up due to prior touring commitments he saidi dont mind doing another bollywood film as long as i dont have to do remix and item numbers which seem to be the order of the day the video of one of the tracks destinations is currently on air we shot it in bangkok since its both exotic and commercially viable my next video manzilein manzilein which will be released in march was shot there too he said interestingly thats the only track in which sharma has sung as a singer he gives himself a modest five on ten but refuses to rate himself as a santoor player immensely respectful of his father sharma feels that he wouldnt be able to do what his father has achieved in his lifetimehe was grateful to the level of support he received from the man who is also his guru dads always amazed at new levels i take santoor to whether its with drums or jazz or lounge hes never enforced a purist outlook on me or even handed me a dos and donts list he said now thats a jugalbandi