Actor Bimal Oberoi openly admits that he can’t sing, even joking that he avoids singing in the shower. And yet, he just released a song. Not just any song – called a spoken word track paradiseWhich is written entirely from his heart, inspired by a superstar he was watching from the sidelines, and built around a line that his friends kept repeating for years.

It started with a one-liner from a friend

Every good song has a seed. For paradiseThis was a line that Oberoi’s friend Nanu Bhai used to say again and again – Which is that paradise in the city? That’s it. There is a question hanging in the air as to who really is heaven in a city full of people. stalwart Inspired by this line, the actor felt it had the potential to become a song. He discussed it with his colleague and composer, Prasad S, and expressed his desire to create something poetic and akin to a poetic text. Prasad encouraged him to write from his heart.

The brief was clear. The words will come. But the spark to actually sit down and write them – that came from somewhere else entirely.

Vienna. Salman Khan. thousands of girls

Oberoi was shooting in Vienna tiger 3. He was playing the role of an Army General – a supporting role, watching one of the biggest stars of Hindi cinema at work. What he saw didn’t just stay with him on the set. It went straight into the song.

“In Vienna, there were barricades and I remember – on the right, on the left – thousands of girls ‘Salman, Salman’ She was screaming. it was triggered from there (Thousands of girls were shouting Salman’s name. This is where the idea came from). I started writing this song while watching him, because it is the kind of track which suits only a few actors like Dharam ji or Salman Khan sir,” he said.

This scene of unwavering devotion inspired Oberoi to write the song with Salman Khan in mind, although he was unable to reach the actor.

not singing, but reciting

When Oberoi finally came to Prasad with the written lyrics, there was no music. just words. And they both immediately realized – it should stay that way. No melody, no singing. Just a voice, and a poem.

“When I narrated it to Prasad, there was no music. We decided to keep it as it is – as it happens continuationWhere Amitabh Bachchan only recites’‘This is the night’(where have we come) Because I’m not a singer – I don’t even sing in the bathroom (Because I’m not a singer. I don’t even sing in the shower)! So I said, let’s keep it as a lesson,” he said.

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From there, Prasad created a track around the text – crafting it into something that, in Oberoi’s words, felt “very modern, very cool”.

roadside romeo

For the visual aspect of paradiseOberoi and his team chose a self-aware and humorous approach, embodying the slightly self-deprecating roadside Romeo character. This character takes himself seriously when the world around him probably doesn’t.

To bring it to life, Oberoi called in his theater friends. “I got in touch with some theater friends – Dilnaz Irani, Priyanka Charan, Gunnit Kaur and Simrat Harvind Kaur – who do theater with me. They all got involved. That’s how it came together.”

Bimal Oberoi played the role of Baloch leader Shirani in Aditya Dhar’s film. stalwart.