Face-to-Face With Three Din Check band members on the Fursat Kanha Video Song Production and Release

[Music] [Music] welcome to indiaan L news Our Guest today is three founding members of D band which was founded 13 years ago just now they have released a video song called fat kaha where is the spare time where is the leure when i s for the first time just the name fsat really forced me to click on the video and I watched it and I had tremendous joy and pleasure and enjoyed the music and the videography I asked them to come to our studio and talk about fset and also 13-year journey of D our first guest today is minachi and she's the one who came up with this idea of a f may actually Welcome to our studio thank you p and really pleasure to have you here this is the first time you are you are here in our studio yes this is my first time with uh uh in the conversation with you excellent so so now um the name fet already you think about it and you feel you are relaxed at least I feel that way yes so I'm told that this is your idea and how did you come with this idea and how long it took to compose the song and produce the video so I think as a group we talked about writing our own song producing our own song but for so we never got around to doing this and I remember um I wrote the song about two years ago but again we're so busy with our gigs and and shows that we get and we just never get around to working on a song creating it from you know it beginning to the end and when I shared with the band you know that we want to do this everybody was on board and we said all right let's work on it maybe now so well just I'm going to interrupt you so we have two other members of your band Yes jly and Sam they are here yes so we going to talk to them after you yes absolutely go ahead and they'll talk more about the band and and everything else but yes when we discussed it everybody came on board and everybody thought that it resonated with them because anytime we talk to someone to say hey what makes you happy why don't you do more of it the answer is foraha so the message of the song is to find foret to do things you like to do find foret to do things that make you happy and and that's the whole story U of the song I was inspired by the band itself because we all are busy professional we all have full-time jobs kids everything that everybody does but when we try to find some foret to do what we love it it gives us tremendous Joy so since you created this uh the whole concept from you know from writing composing the song to the whole completion of the videography uh what is fsat for you so fsat for me is the time we make for ourselves right and when we say ourselves it it's time that we make to do things that actually nourish our soul right when we do things that genuinely make us happy we almost have to pause and stop and smile and enjoy that moment to me that is for now we can talk on this topic for years yeah so how do you know that you are in foress so I think we have to get close to ourselves and I often think about it we need to really observe what is really making us happy energized versus what is the stuff that we're doing just because we have been doing or we need to do right our jobs our commute our Drive um our heart will tell us what we do which is actually a nourishing thing for our soul makes us happy makes us joyful and to me that defines it yeah so now two years ago you played this idea you came up you composed a song yeah then you talk to your band and how the band responded amazing everybody was on board with it right away actually we were always on board with it for few years before when you know when we started working on it we just couldn't find time we were very busy postco we somebody talking about forsa couldn't find time for for exactly yeah right so we were like we have to send this message and and I think as soon as everybody jumped on board the song kept getting better and better right with every feedback yes I had the framework of it but everyone contributed their little thing in it to make it what it turned out to be as a final product so is it your first composition or you have composed songs and and written poetry before so I do write but I keep it to myself I don't share um I never think that I'll share most of the time I'll just share with my husband or you know my sister or somebody like that um but this has given me the strength to say okay there can be something made out of these things and there's good messages some of them have really good messages and you know music is our our way to send that message across so it's almost a responsibility to send something positive out so can you say a few lines of this um fatah not necessarily singing but just so that you know our viewers can get some sort of idea sure um um one of the lines of it which which I really like is is comes from the verse of the song which says [Music] fore [Music] so again this is this is my favorite part of the song and it also talks about you know unless we have time to slow down and smile we can't even identify that little light of God that that exists in all of us which nourishes US and which makes us accept and love everything and everyone around us so and uh also if you can talk a little bit about the the video Ry and suiting of the yeah yeah so when we actually were practicing this in our you know basement Studio we were practicing the song and we were like excited about it to okay we're going to record it um my nephew who was a cinematographer a c he has worked a lot in the Taj framers in India he said why don't we make a music video of it and I initially my reaction was it's a lot of work uh and he's like yeah let's give it because it will help us send the message more strongly and again everybody in the band jumped on it we are very enthusiastic when anything positive is happening so everybody jumped on board and again we had some concept in in my mind we everybody added their little ideas and then we decided okay let's go for it and so glad we did that because I think the music video expresses the song so much better than just an audio song excellent thank you so much your time thanks a lot excent fah our next guest is Sam also one of the founders of Bollywood band D we are going to come back to fsat kaha video song but before that we want to talk with Samir about 13 years of d uh I remember one of the first Major Performance they had was at our uh A Wedding Expo in Taj um uh not Taj it was um rich richz in Boston right and uh so 13 years since like yesterday so Sam tell us um how this 13-year Journey has been and maybe before we talk about Journey when was the how did you guys come up with this idea absolutely absolutely so it has been an amazing journey first of all um 13 years ago um our band members Jolly baa as you know here he's here and Sam ra and I got together um and it was just a common friendship we we met each other and there was a common interest of Music we uh we all had some musical backgrounds um and we we got together we started to um uh play we started to jam at parties and anywhere we performed even though it was very casual um atmosphere people loved it we enjoyed it and that's what really really started the band um and then rest of the members over time they they joined in um uh we have a lot of talent in the band um minaki as as you know we we just spoke to her um also aner yeah I know her who is an amazing musician and she's aing she's a singer she does lots of things she composes puts puts together all the music Kamal dasu who's who's our who's our drummer and then um Mike Grover who's a basist um so you know the journey has been amazing it was tough in the beginning uh getting everybody together and to set up the studios to get all the gear it took us a long time time and um and when we first started perform you know um it's a it's a new band people don't recognize um so so that that was a tough period but but during that time we learned a lot uh but most importantly we were having so much fun yeah I think that's the key right that's that's sure we were like uh hey this is great we'll just keep going and uh and now 13 years later uh we have performed in um pretty much all over New England uh we have also gone outside New England uh we have performed in New York uh Pennsylvania and we want to keep expanding that um so now tell us uh some of the you know the audience or some of the places where you have performed who who are the people who really get excited about inviting DJ absolutely absolutely so it's a pretty broad spectrum uh we perform at uh at weddings um at different occasions uh people have um uh graduation parties um uh a couple of times you perform as Wedding Expo absolutely I was going to say Wedding Expo We performed the woman of the year um but also a lot of parties uh we have performed at Vision a achl and and and several others um but it's it's a it's a combination the Spectrum ranges from more individual parties to bigger weddings to bigger concerts we have also had our own concerts where where D was the uh sponsored by by ourselves so it's a really broad spectrum and it just keeps growing and all along Bollywood all along Bollywood the team all come back to Bollywood it's always Bollywood there's a little combination we do some uh what we call mashups we take some English songs okay and we we combine them with with Bollywood songs so we do some mashups we do some um uh um you know besides Hindi song we also do some Tamil and Telugu songs excellent and we try to incorporate them as well so I know you are not a singer but now you to tell me what are some of the most sought auor songs by D Che so um T um um people associate us with fun you know in in simple terms musty and um lot of songs uh you know that are talking about musty next time after you I'm going to talk to Jolly yes and I'm going to ask him to tell us few dialogs about Mona darling and things like that absolutely I mean jolly and musty are the same name as you know okay okay but a lot of our songs are very dance oriented um uh disco era we have a lot of theme songs from that so the songs pretty much are across the uh Spectrum um we do a lot of Punjabi songs um um and and some of our songs are also sort of rock U uh themed songs um uh so we've taken some of the songs and we have uh uh put some uh you know Distortion guitars and drums to to to make them more of a rock songs and um so it's a very uh broad spectrum so for example like uh say we are somebody having a wedding and you really need some you know dancing bombastic song Happ songs you I know you guys do that but what about if somebody having a some sort of a very Serene sober event like say Vision a or some fundraising or something like that you guys do that as well so absolutely so what we do is we typically have something like Vision a you like mentioned we usually have a theme and then we build the entire set around the theme so we may start off with a little bit slower songs little bit sentimental songs um uh songs that have more sort of musical value to it um more complex songs and then we may lead into what we call the musty songs and and in the end honestly every every show we do at the end everybody's just dancing and jumping and and and and it's it's a brings a lot of joy to ex well one thing you have learned in the last 13 years from the band being in the band so I I always say this and I've said this many times before um the reason band has sustained for such a long time is because we are friends first and that friendship has sort of carried us through you a lot of bands they form a year or two and they're gone they G yeah sure so one of the things I've learned is that friendship and the bond that we have has really what has kept us going all these 13 years and and we we cherish and we value that excellent Sam thank you so much for your time absolutely and talking about musty I'm going to talk to Jolly about it and we're going to start with Mona darling dialogue absolutely Jolly musty it's the same word okay excellent good okay thank you so much thank you again appreciate it I thought we were going to talk about fat but as uh s mentioned that uh jali equals to must so I'm going to start with must and my favorite is your dialogue from about the Mona darling and then we'll come back and talk about so that that brings back memories because the last time I was here in this studio we were talking about Mona darling in the exactly yeah yeah so we can start with yeah EXC one more and I want to look at the camera too Robert excellent so this is musty yes so I'm really glad that you know s men and you know that the musty very important part of any band this is you know music or having fun you are everybody at the same pace so what a great wonderful idea I did so now coming back to on the serious notes um mentioned earlier I was very impressed by forat KH so if you can talk little bit about the the production uh side of this video how how it happened where did you suit it and how all all this things fell in place no I I think it goes hand in hand like musty is the whole premise that we build this on you know the name dck itself is it communicates musty but we as a group can get serious we take music seriously we take our production seriously and we can get serious is and divide work and and Conquer what needs to be done so I think there's a lot of work that went into the production in the preparation getting to the point that we were actually going to um you know do the music part and also then do the uh visual part uh so first I'll talk about the music component and then go to the uh the video component the men actually spent a lot of time actually creating individual parts of who was going to play what there was a lot of brainstorming that went from every individual um participant and also as a group as to what will work what will not work we played it a few times there were tweaks going back adjusting the lyrics a lot of U as we buil it together and when it all came together uh you know we actually uh did it backwards we first uh recorded a SC scratch uh soundtrack and did the video that was a lot due to travel schedules and all and then uh we shot the video on the scratch track and then we went to um a uh Studio sa Studio on Newberry Street in Boston and recorded the song uh recording the song was a absolutely new experience for all this was the first time you guys did that uh I've had the experience of recording in the studio with prsh before but everybody else together so uh and because we are so used to performing as a team um on stage this was a totally different Paradigm uh we had U we wanted to play together uh but the sound Engineers they were like it's best if you do your pieces individually so that part was uh a discovery a learning uh we performed together then there were parts we did separately H and then just the you know the new technology of layering sounds and overlaying that was just just you know new and exciting experience um and then you know actually spending hours and hours uh on Zoom um you know editing the video overlaying the sound um fixing components um I think we must have had about 25 drafts and U 30 final versions how did you come like you know if you look at some visual concepts so for example like you know somebody's missing the train yeah so how the train comes into the picture what was the idea you that [Music] [Music] well and living in a town that Ma I live in Sharon and for a very long time we have traveled to the city to uh to do our jobs uh so the credit for the concept goes to minaki she came up with the idea um but I think the origins are more so what our life is you know getting up early in the morning getting ready getting the kids out the door uh running to get the train and sometimes you miss it and then you wait for the second train so that was the concept we lived in but the message that you know I think the the song uh wants to communicate is despite all this you know we have we have jobs we have kids we are all doing well but then being able to make the time yeah that uh brings us joy that's what's key to life that and that's the foret we have to make for us and in some way I think the message of the band all these 13 years because you know most of us were uh playing in this band in our 40s and being able to um you said 40 you say Teenage well the heart is still teenage and it's always going to be teenage I don't think it's it's growing incrementally there but you know just say you know it's more like the do of of life and at that stage uh we it makes us feel young and that's the force that we create for ourselves and for each other what you are describing when I saw that name and the video came to my ebox right that's the exactly first thing came to my mind you know it was very striking very touching and I'm so glad that you guys produced this song and and U and really I want to wish all the best for this song to thank to to go you know such for is a word which is very hard to sort of translate literally but you know where's the Leisure where's the spare time to do this but then I think the message we are saying it find the forup exactly it's hash findind forup yeah so now um Before I Let You Go two more questions I have so first I want to talk about some of the singers and players who play the instrument in this person who they are and what they are playing yeah yeah uh you know you know the singers minaki me and anandani parts in the song uh and then uh the lead guitarist Samir Bomani here earlier uh and some of the members who cannot here today anandani Shaker who actually plays the the keys she's in India right now she would be with us then Mike Grover he plays the bass guitar um he's been with the band uh more than five six years at this point and then Kamal Das who really puts the life with his Beats in in everything that we do uh he's uh played the drums and uh so that's six of us U excellent very good D is is something that's like really comes from our hearts if it would not have been an expression of who we are I don't think we would have been able to sustain it this long you know the biggest bands you know they break and people go their own ways but the reason we've all stayed together is because each one of us resonates with the message the band brings forth and that is Life's Too Short let's have fun and because all of us are sort of um personified versions of having fun and that brings us all together as a friend that's that's what what that key of the secret it's a lot of alcohol I can I can agree some yeah yeah no I mean jokes aside I think it's really caring for each other I think there's a high level of care and bond that each one of us develop uh it's not just that we uh are great as a team I think they are individual bonds between each other to so how the family Dynamics plays role into this you know the spouses how how that works uh oh there's an association of disgruntled tinch exper just joking but I think we like to involve we always try to involve everybody as you know samir's wife gizm is she's played a role in the video not only that we even reach out to our extended family if you will and we try to bring in friends our friend vaj thei has played the lead role there uh and their extended families so the fact that we uh we are with each other like a family more so and we are there for each other when we need each other in our ups and downs we're there to celebrate and dance at each other's special occasions and we we stand by when somebody's struggling and having a hard time that's and we all have that he struggle and hard time that's you know that's what keeps us all together excellent well Yi on that note thank you so much and all the best for song again it was a pleasure for us to be here ex and thank you for hosting us excellent I'm really I really enjoy talking to you guys and I just love the [Music] [Music] video [Music] for [Music] [Music] for what is set the 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