Band Agnee, famous for it’s theme sons of Roadies and Splitsvilla and also songs like ‘Sadho Re’ and ‘Kabira’ has another feather attached to its already feted cap and that’s of having signed the Hollywood film ‘Avengers’ as composers and singers of the Walt Disney film which releases in April this year.
Agnee will be composing and singing the Theme song for the movie to promote it in India.Agnee was formed in 2006 when Mohan and Koco met by chance at a common’s friend’s wedding followed by a phone call and jamming session right after. Since then there has been no looking back for the band.
Having created a stir with their very first album ‘Agnee’ in 2007, their numbers ‘Sadho Re’, ‘Kabira’, ‘Ujale Baaz’ from the album ‘Lamha Yeh Jayega Kahan’, from the film Dil Dosti etc. and theme songs of reality shows ‘Roadies’ and ‘Splitsvilla’ (Aahatein) for which they also have won the much-deserved GIMA Award in September 2011, Agnee became a household name.
In recent times Agnee has just finished their first two films as music directors ‘Aalaap’ and ‘Shala’ in Marathi. Shala released on 20th Jan 2012, in which the Hindi classical song ‘Sadaa’ is already a hit. ‘Aalaap’ meanwhile will be releasing in March 2012 and marks the debut of Agnee into Bollywood as solo music directors.Besides Agnee has also completed recording for the theme song for Roadies 9 the lyrics of which have been penned by director Abbas Tyrewala.
Agnee comprises of Koco and Mohan on guitars and vocals. The two also compose the songs for the band. Michael Pereira accompanies them on keyboards and Jamir on bass, Hrishikesh Datar on drums, Nitin Joshi on sound and Pradeep Ratanjankar is their music technician. – TOI
