'Not following a trend works best for music industry,' says Himesh Reshammiya

Music composer Himesh Reshammiya, who is back as a judge on 12th season of singing reality show Indian Idol, believes culture of following any kind of trend in music industry should end and one must rar focus on coming up with new work.

music director, who became a r in mid-2000s with his songs in films such as “Aashiq Banaya Apne”, “Namaste London”, “Aksar”, “36 China Town” and “Apne”, said he refrains from repeating himself and always aims to swim against tide. " composers need to improve and take over from following trends. I have always worked against tide. When ‘Tere Naam’ was doing well, I broke it with ‘Aashiq Banaya Aapne’, n ‘Bodyguard’, ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ happened.

"re is a lot of traffic and t following a trend and doing what one believes in would work best for industry,” Reshammiya told PTI. 47-year-old music director said he is happy to be judging new season of "Indian Idol", alongside likes of Neha Kakkar and Vishal Dlani.

show goes on air from Saturday on Sony Entertainment channel. " show has proved it is t only about playback singing, we have seen that in Neha Kakkar, being a contestant and w a judge. It is a very inspiring show,” he said.

On acting front, Reshammiya will be starting work on sequel to his 2014 film " Xpose" and "Namastey Rome", where he is collaborating with Javed Akhtar for music. He is also creating music for Rajkumar Santoshi’s upcoming film “B Boy” and Anubhav Sinha’s next production venture, besides coming out with his own album.

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