At the age of 78 Ashok Patki is still active; composes music of ‘Bakaal’
Music legend of Marathi film industry Ashok Patki is still active. His latest film ‘Bakaal’ directed by Sameer Athalye is all set for release on 8th November 2019. Music of this film was released recently in Mumbai, when Ashok Patki was present along with artistes of this film Ganesh Yadav, Yatin Karekar, Pooja Nayak, newcomer Chaitanya mestry, Jui Bendkhale, singers Hrishikesh Ranade, Prajakta Ranade, director Sameer Athlye, Producers Rajkumar Menda, Sonu Menda, choreographer Dilip Mestry- Deepa Mestri, fight master Andlib Pathan, writer Abhiram Bhadkamkar, Milind Save and distributors Sameer Dixit and Hrishikesh Bhirangi.
For the first time music director Ashok Patki has tried something different from his traditional music, as he has experimented with western style of music to suit the requirement of this action film which is connected with the youth. But, his experiment has surprised everyone in the team including the director, who have praised his commitment. Mr. Ashok Patki has thanked the producers and director for showing faith in him to produce this western type of music, which he had never attempted before. Out of five songs one of them is an item number and three are dance numbers.
The mixing of these songs has been done Vijay Dayal of yashraj Studios, while a big team of upcoming and prominent singers like Siddharth Mahadevan, Amey Date, Jasraj Joshi, Hrishikesh Ranade, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Aadarsh Shinde, Madhuri Karmarkar, Janhavi Arora, Kavita Ram, Prajakta ranade, Dhanashree Deshpande, Amruta Dahivalkar have rendered their voices for the five songs in this film.