Wayne Sharpe eyes Bollywood after winning Screen Award
* Will get Golden Globe winner Lisa Gerrard to sing for his next Indian project
MUMBAI: Having won a Star Screen Award for Background Score for Prakash Jha's Rajneeti, composer Wayne Sharpe is raring to go in the Indian film industry
Sharpe was introduced to Bollywood by Prakash Jha's Gangaajal, for which he had won a Filmfare Award that year. Thereafter, he did some films like Apaharan, Rajneeti and National Award-winner Lahore, for which he got Hollywood's top singer Lisbeth Scott to sing. For Rajneeti, Sharpe also composed the uplifting theme song Dhan Dhan Dharti.
Wayne is now working on filmmaker Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan's next Hindi project, which is a Sci-Fi movie in which singers like Golden Globe Award-winner Lisa Gerrard and Senegalese singer Baaba Maal will sing his compositions Lisa has sung for Hollywood films like Gladiator, Mission Impossible-II and Black Hawke Down, amongst many others.
Wayne is setting up a studio in Mumbai and has a lot of work from the Hindi film industry coming his way. Wayne feels Indian movies give him more scope for music because of their very nature, and winning awards here is like a moral boost which encourages him.