Harish Raj turns singer

Acting has always been Harish Raj's passion, but a little-known fact is that the actor is also very passionate about singing. Calling Dr Rajkumar and Puneeth Rajkumar ' who have rendered songs for many of their films ' his inspirations, singing was something that Harish wanted to try his hand at. And that has happened with his upcoming film,

Shree Sathyanarayana

, for which he has sung the song Dinavu Nannage Sunday.

'The song comes at a point in the film when my character gets a lot of money, so, to him, every day feels like Sunday. When I was planning it with music director Taja Ronnie, I told him that I wanted it to have a feel like Shaggy's

Mr Bombastic

. I sang parts of it to explain it to him, which is when he suggested that I should sing it. Though that was always on my mind, I didn't want to force the idea on him. So I said that I would sing it, but that we would not use my voice if it didn't sound good. But everyone appreciated the song and could not guess that it was not a professional singer rendering it,' says the actor, who has no formal training in singing.