{"id":2089976,"date":"2025-10-14T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2089976"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:40:11","slug":"maahis-latest-ep-talab-comes-with-its-own-micro-drama-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maahis-latest-ep-talab-comes-with-its-own-micro-drama-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Maahi\u2019s Latest EP \u2018Talab\u2019 Comes With Its Own Micro-Drama Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n      <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"tt-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/rollingstoneindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Maahi-Talab-video-e1760438128569-960x644.jpg\"><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <span class=\"tt-thumb-icon\"><br \/>\n          <i class=\"fa fa-arrows-alt\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maahi talks about his debut EP &#8216;Talab.&#8217; Photo: Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Behind every adored pop artist is a team working behind the scenes, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rollingstoneindia.com\/tag\/Maahi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maahi <\/a>is more than happy to give them their due. He says over a Zoom call, \u201cI\u2019m a firm believer in the philosophy of, \u2018Do what you\u2019re good at, and, leave a lot of it to the people who are better at that [other aspects].\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his debut EP <em>Talab<\/em>, the pop singer has worked with composers and lyricists like Bharath, Rohh, Saaheal, Samad Khan, and Akash Kaushal across four tracks. Leaning into the rising micro-drama trend, his label Saregama worked with content company FilterCopy to tailor a series centred around the EP\u2019s themes. <\/p>\n<p>With each of the four tracks dropping after a dedicated micro-drama episode that teases it through a college love story, <em>Talab <\/em>marks a few new moves for Maahi. \u201cI\u2019ve usually operated in a very lovey-dovey space. Moving to a little bit of a darker space here was fun,\u201d he says, referring to his melancholy title track, which comes with a tempestuous music video. A pivot from the romantic, affable pop of his previous single \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rollingstoneindia.com\/new-music-agsy-maahi-justh-dorwin-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jaan Se Zyada<\/a>\u201d that came out earlier this year, <em>Talab <\/em>EP also brings in more buoyant electronic and dancefloor-friendly grooves with songs like \u201cDildaari,\u201d building mystique on \u201cVaari Vaari\u201d and offering roomy pop rock on \u201cRaahein.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With work beginning around the end of April this year on <em>Talab<\/em>, Maahi says it was imperative that they not only captured his current state of mind, but also put it out in a timely manner, before he was \u201cemotionally somewhere else.\u201d He says, \u201cWhen you\u2019re in a certain phase at some point in your life, you tend to make music as per that. The longer it doesn\u2019t come out, you tend to enter different stages in your life.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Talab (Official Music Video) | Maahi | Devishi Madaan | Bharath | Saaheal | Saregama Originals\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PuOa12YK2R8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Talab (Official Music Video) | Maahi | Devishi Madaan | Bharath | Saaheal | Saregama Originals\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PuOa12YK2R8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In this stage of life, Maahi has also taken acting workshops for past music videos and the micro-drama series. He admits he was \u201capprehensive and confused\u201d about the using a micro-drama series to promote his latest set of songs, but says it was \u201cincredible\u201d to see the execution and outcome. \u201cI was really happy to get into it just purely because it\u2019s something that I haven\u2019t seen a lot of before,\u201d he says. He notes how media is changing so rapidly that it\u2019s hard to keep a track of and then becomes a bit self-aware. \u201cI sound so sold at the moment,\u201d the 20-year-old laughs.<\/p>\n<p>Now fully buying into how micro-dramas could be a \u201cfresh way to market a song,\u201d Maahi points out that the narrative wasn\u2019t just to support the music of <em>Talab<\/em>, but to incorporate it in a deeper way. \u201cIf you hear the music in the episodes, they\u2019re all stems from the song, even the rhythm or the groove that\u2019s playing in the back,\u201d he says. While four episodes were planned originally to build up to the EP release, demand (and the narrative arc that goes from an awkward meeting to a blossoming romance) has driven Maahi, Saregama, and FilterCopy to drop a fifth episode on Oct. 17. \u201cWe just felt it wouldn\u2019t be fair to be like, \u2018Promotion <em>ho gaya<\/em> series <em>ka<\/em>. Just because of the amount of love that we\u2019ve we\u2019ve gotten on it, we felt like the audience deserved at least a proper conclusion to it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPggulnD5IB\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>Then, there\u2019s another visual dimension to the project with the \u201cTalab\u201d music video, made by Arsalaan Abbas and Nathan Solomon from the production house Birds and Bees. Abbas and Solomon \u2014 who are also part of the pop group Citimall \u2014 are Maahi\u2019s childhood friends. He calls making the \u201cTalab\u201d music video a \u201cfull circle moment.\u201d He adds, \u201cThese are people I\u2019ve been hanging out with since I was, like, 10. So for them to execute such an incredible video is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration and multi-artist projects are still very much Maahi\u2019s approach to making music. There\u2019s work ongoing with the songwriting\/production duo Never Sober, comprising Riz and Soham (Maahi\u2019s brother). \u201cI think the name of the game is consistency and consistent releases. That\u2019s something I\u2019m aiming for over the next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The micro-drama stint means he might do a few acting courses as well. \u201cI got my toes wet in this, so maybe I\u2019ll explore a little bit more of that. But nothing comes before the music, so just tons more of that,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe class=\"lazy lazy-hidden\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Talab\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" data-lazy-type=\"iframe\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5me0pFKmuY1y3wBhs2Mh9v?si=c42752f040774206&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Talab\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5me0pFKmuY1y3wBhs2Mh9v?si=c42752f040774206&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source rollingstoneindia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maahi talks about his debut EP &#8216;Talab.&#8217; Photo: Courtesy of the artist Behind every adored pop artist is a team working behind the scenes, and Maahi is more than happy to give them their due. He says over a Zoom call, \u201cI\u2019m a firm believer in the philosophy of, \u2018Do what you\u2019re good at, and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2089977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[394065],"class_list":["post-2089976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-maahi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Maahis-Latest-EP-\u2018Talab-Comes-With-Its-Own-Micro-Drama-Series.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089978,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089976\/revisions\/2089978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}