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June 23, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Neelesh Misra" · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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  Speaker 1: South Asian music and cultures can.
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  Speaker 2: Be found around the world.
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  Speaker 3: We tracked down the best and presented here for you
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  Speaker 3: on Ruckus Alvino Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Hey everybody, this is a Yah and you're listening to
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  Speaker 4: The Bridge by Sami Chan.
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  Speaker 5: Hello Asia called this is Doctor Simsatad and you're listening
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  Speaker 5: to The Bridge hosted by Mado but Sami Chan on
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  Speaker 5: Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, this is Vedas and you're listening to the Bridge
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  Speaker 6: with Sammy Chand on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 7: Hundi Hunji Hondi. Welcome to the Big show. My name
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  Speaker 7: is Sammy Chand and welcome everybody to a June twenty
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  Speaker 7: third edition of The Bridge. Very simply the most entertaining
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  Speaker 7: hour in all of South Asia music and culture coming
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  Speaker 7: at you here. I do it with the help of
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  Speaker 7: some of my friends. But today's episode we'll have a
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  Speaker 7: very special guest stopping by. We'll be joined today by
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  Speaker 7: Nieleish Mistra And to call him award winning is still
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  Speaker 7: selling him short, really, but he's an incredibly accomplished, while
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  Speaker 7: renowned and most importantly highly respected journalist, storyteller, podcast host
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  Speaker 7: you name it, my man is behind it and today
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  Speaker 7: mister Nilesh Mistra will be stopping by. Really excited about
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  Speaker 7: this and you know, as a show host myself, to
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  Speaker 7: have somebody of his stature stop by the show here,
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  Speaker 7: very exciting.
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  Speaker 8: Got a great show.
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  Speaker 7: We'll also be joined today by Niche the host of
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  Speaker 7: the Garage Mahal. We'll be joined today by the Rakas
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  Speaker 7: Avenue Radio all stars Daitadas Got will stop by and
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  Speaker 7: of course Doctor Roy with the Daily Word on the Avenue.
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  Speaker 7: Had a great time talking to Unal yesterday. I'll share
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  Speaker 7: some thoughts on that. But let's begin today's show with
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  Speaker 7: this song. It's called no Shortcut.
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  Speaker 9: Welcome to the Bridge, jetting you'll be the king.
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  Speaker 10: May look like getting your boy and you're show you
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  Speaker 10: maybe looking this holiday.
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  Speaker 11: You don't miss the bad You.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, yeah don't.
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  Speaker 12: You Gandia come yeady Lincoln, but coo.
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  Speaker 10: Take her then you okay you take a les hurry and.
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  Speaker 7: Abi pays pennies a hi.
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  Speaker 12: You know the Kardama lucky, I be like, do you
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  Speaker 12: good company? He's on the very car Here you are
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  Speaker 12: plainer the hey good company.
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  Speaker 10: Don't number that, here are plain number the soda double
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  Speaker 10: dat lip to Alison. ALISONI yeah, I'm aday nod.
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  Speaker 12: It's okay, okay, tell me pretty but Liza it done?
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  Speaker 12: Hey over and then it Hey, how many don't nobody?
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  Speaker 14: But that many don't nobody.
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  Speaker 7: I love our Gentellon writer extraordinary getting ready for touring
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  Speaker 7: here in the United States later this year. That song
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  Speaker 7: cast No Shortcut collaboration with Mercy Beats wait to start
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  Speaker 7: off this Tuesday episode. We'll continue here with doctor sitting
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  Speaker 7: there Satage Oh.
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  Speaker 6: I see soon a Yeah, that's so halloky to give
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  Speaker 6: her a fun in Azama the poky it should get
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  Speaker 6: it Bend Joe Bnei Wario Sonna Rahanda Causa.
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  Speaker 2: Rahandasamo. Don't today worry but the top pet games you
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  Speaker 2: need them.
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  Speaker 6: You need the bimburra Rangni yooday Shari canoe Asi Yoda
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  Speaker 6: day Shari Canoe, Tami port de lasom.
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  Speaker 7: Canoe je i n l.
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  Speaker 2: Colloga sharapat.
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  Speaker 6: Raol de bono, j vol devordamolo.
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  Speaker 16: What is set the no name karate p? What is
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  Speaker 16: set name karate.
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  Speaker 3: On?
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  Speaker 17: Not leam to Bagela come then read your game to
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  Speaker 17: the red you mam de.
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  Speaker 15: Todt goorial.
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  Speaker 6: Scoria, but a shakin I am Barataria baschia balloo.
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  Speaker 2: It's a round it set round us.
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  Speaker 6: Stas nayate so halloky tokiva funny as amanti poky ishiki
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  Speaker 6: pendo bani wario suni pieria nai Rahada is over.
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  Speaker 7: Then there's a just currently on tour here in the
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  Speaker 7: United States. And if you do get a chance to
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  Speaker 7: go see him, go do that. It's a great night.
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  Speaker 7: Looking forward to our guest today, mister Misra, and to
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  Speaker 7: call him a storyteller is probably the best one word
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  Speaker 7: for him, really looking forward to the conversation today.
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  Speaker 7: Got there go on my little hair. Can that's you
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  Speaker 7: hard man?
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  Speaker 11: All that I'm gonna go, Pa gone, can put that
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  Speaker 11: thrown on them?
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  Speaker 19: But and the but the best love.
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  Speaker 3: So he wrote a dom to Dick committed and I'm
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  Speaker 7: Can't got no good bite.
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  Speaker 11: A bit and then come you could put it at
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  Speaker 11: the bike.
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  Speaker 7: It don't.
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  Speaker 10: It's gonna go to the front.
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  Speaker 11: Scene pretty on the mast in the face, but the.
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  Speaker 20: Graphing, the key to the black seating, the liver, Daddy man,
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  Speaker 20: gimme ready square the people.
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  Speaker 2: Hold the.
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  Speaker 11: Tall lad.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a big Ninja fan. He's great that song called Corey.
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  Speaker 7: Looking forward to our conversation with mister Neilish Mistra here today.
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  Speaker 7: Make sure you hang back for that. Now it's time
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  Speaker 7: for us to bring in doctor Roy, who's got today's
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  Speaker 7: word on the avenue.
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  Speaker 21: Hey guys, this is doctor Frey with Today's Word on
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  Speaker 21: the Avenue. In film and TV news, India is said
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  Speaker 21: to host a landmark cinematic moment, as acclaimed filmmaker Christopher
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  Speaker 21: Nolan travels to Mumbai this July for the India premiere
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  Speaker 21: of the Odyssey. Nolan will be joined by stars Matt
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  Speaker 21: Damon and Tom Holland, along with producer Emma Thomas, marking
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  Speaker 21: the first time a Christopher Nolan film will receive an
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  Speaker 21: official premiere in India. In media news, history was made
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  Speaker 21: at the FIFA World Cup as Nishan Velubilai represented Australia
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  Speaker 21: against Turkey, becoming the first player of the cy origin
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  Speaker 21: to appear at the tournament in twenty years. Born to
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  Speaker 21: parents of Sri Lankan thumbil heritage, Velubilized milestone marks a
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  Speaker 21: proud moment for the global South Asian diaspora and highlights
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  Speaker 21: the growing presence of players with Indian roots on soccer's
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  Speaker 21: biggest stage.
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  Speaker 14: An event news, a.
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  Speaker 21: Spectacular celebration of culture and devotion unfolded at Colombo as
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  Speaker 21: thousands of part nadimn dancers came together at gail Face
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  Speaker 21: Green to set a Guinness World record, bringing together participants
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  Speaker 21: from Sri Lanka, India and beyond. The historic performance showcased
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  Speaker 21: the beauty of one of the oldest classical dance traditions
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  Speaker 21: while highlighting the enduring cultural and spiritual ties between India
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  Speaker 21: and Sri Lanka. That's it for today's word on the
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  Speaker 21: Avenue until next time.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you very much, doctor Roy. We'll see you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: This next song is by an artist named Jeorge Brarr.
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  Speaker 7: Loved it and it came out about a year ago
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  Speaker 7: or so. And I heard Sittinder Shirtage perform this over
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  Speaker 7: the weekend this past Saturday here in la as part
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  Speaker 7: of his set, kind of mixed the song into his
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  Speaker 7: medley of songs that he referred to really cool part
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  Speaker 7: of the show there got me thinking, this is a
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  Speaker 7: classic song. Josh bar everybody. The song is called Buzarai.
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  Speaker 3: Che taya came non.
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  Speaker 16: Was OK? What's ted don jo.
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  Speaker 2: Guzara, he tells, j.
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  Speaker 22: Guzara my no Cardier, Mary card Gan Terah the party
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  Speaker 22: Memera honahnaa.
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  Speaker 2: Guzara. So that's a horror.
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  Speaker 3: Guzara moamer guit Niberii.
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  Speaker 7: Player rend.
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  Speaker 3: Renald Huna du Barada Guzara Sna that's a horror banda
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  Speaker 3: buza Renadi, Telegony Loman d Marna Marana, the hat gurny
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  Speaker 3: Mandy made Mary to day MALISONI yea dry I did
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  Speaker 3: not Karaka Buru Kamarasara.
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  Speaker 7: Sasa beautiful song really is. I think that's going to
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  Speaker 7: age really well. I remember the very first time I
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  Speaker 7: heard the song, and I think I was probably one
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  Speaker 7: of the first few to hear it because I reached
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  Speaker 7: out to Georsh right away and he had it's just
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  Speaker 7: new on the scene and he responded to me right
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  Speaker 7: away and said, Boddy, please hit up my manager. This
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  Speaker 7: is all new to me anyway. Now let's bring a
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  Speaker 7: niche to the show. Was sub niche?
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  Speaker 10: Yo?
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  Speaker 1: What is up Ruckus Avenue Radio? Fam, I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a quick moment from Sammy and the Bridge to tell you.
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  Speaker 14: About my show the Garage Ma Hall.
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  Speaker 1: It's where I showcase South Asian artist making amazing music
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  Speaker 1: from all around the world. And quick update, I just
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  Speaker 1: moved to New York. So usually I'd say my show
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  Speaker 1: plays every Tuesday at five pm PST, but this week
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  Speaker 1: we're playing at eight pm EST. And this week we
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  Speaker 1: got some incredible drops. We got Code with his newest
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  Speaker 1: single Bollywood.
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  Speaker 14: And hip Hop.
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  Speaker 1: We got my girl Devica with her new track Dip,
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  Speaker 1: and of course we got to feature again there and
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  Speaker 1: his newest single do You Love Me So. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to be tuned into the hottest South Asian music
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  Speaker 1: from all around the world, tune into my show The
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  Speaker 1: Garage Mahll exclusively on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 7: Back to you, Sammy, Thank you very much, Niche. I
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  Speaker 7: hope New York is treating you well. My brother. You
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  Speaker 7: moved over there at the perfect time. He gets there,
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  Speaker 7: the Knicks winner World Championship. You got the World Cup
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  Speaker 7: going on over there. It's a good time to be there,
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  Speaker 7: my man. Very shortly, we'll be joined by Nilish Misra,
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  Speaker 7: really looking forward to the conversation. Journalist, news anchor, podcast host, filmmaker.
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  Speaker 7: And there's something about telling a story that me and
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  Speaker 7: you know that he knows how to do. He'll be
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  Speaker 7: joining us right after the song.
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  Speaker 19: Deli Viga Dina Di Marca Hack Marrya.
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  Speaker 2: Samon and Aca.
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  Speaker 13: Many thought ha could be Jock gun Uncle.
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  Speaker 19: Do Jiko.
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  Speaker 2: Jasin Many.
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  Speaker 13: Bsi Boody thought, do they Ganacley do jip?
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  Speaker 7: Did you go.
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  Speaker 15: Joke?
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  Speaker 7: Say you.
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  Speaker 23: Do?
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  Speaker 7: Ma?
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  Speaker 15: Did you.
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  Speaker 2: Mum?
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  Speaker 13: isn't the shooting what man heart daring hot to man
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  Speaker 2: Do he maadies on me mana had day?
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  Speaker 7: Did by.
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  Speaker 2: Game Boody who made by Jo.
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  Speaker 4: She don't you.
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  Speaker 1: Go?
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  Speaker 2: Job said?
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  Speaker 11: Did you go? Did you.
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  Speaker 19: Look at the day?
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  Speaker 11: Happy daddy.
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  Speaker 19: My good bye.
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  Speaker 10: God?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, he said.
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  Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct honor and pleasure
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  Speaker 7: to introduce into the show, mister Nilish Misra. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 14: I'm very well, thank you and thank you for having
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  Speaker 14: this somarism.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's allry a complete delight for us, of course,
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  Speaker 7: and there's something to be said about interviewing a master
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  Speaker 7: of interviewing people.
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  Speaker 14: So I'm going to.
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  Speaker 7: Try to do my best of being on my best
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  Speaker 7: behavior here. So you know, fascinating story. You started on
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  Speaker 7: television reporting to India through some of its toughest moments,
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  Speaker 7: and then you have a huge radio show where you
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  Speaker 7: become one of the most comforting voices in India for
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  Speaker 7: millions of people. Host like us. Our relationship with our
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  Speaker 7: audience is based on trust, and you clearly had that
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  Speaker 7: relationship with your fan base. Is there a weight to
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  Speaker 7: having a relationship with your audience, Is there something to
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  Speaker 7: a burden or what was that relationship like that for you?
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  Speaker 5: I think that's two things here. One as a storyteller,
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  Speaker 5: you become the other every day. It's a phrase I
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  Speaker 5: often use for communicators.
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  Speaker 14: You become the other.
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  Speaker 5: You are seeing the world through the eyes of a
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  Speaker 5: different person. It could be a forty five year old
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  Speaker 5: woman or a sixty year or grandfather or grandparent, and
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  Speaker 5: that it then fuels inside you empathy and empathy is
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  Speaker 5: the biggest superpower of any communicator. Empathy brings earnestness. You
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  Speaker 5: become more earnest, You sound more authentic. You don't sound
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  Speaker 5: made up, manicured. It's all right if you're having a
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  Speaker 5: bad day, and that reflects in your voice.
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  Speaker 12: You know.
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  Speaker 14: The biggest.
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  Speaker 5: Pane, or the biggest curse of any communicator often is
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  Speaker 5: to sound different from what they are on a certain day.
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  Speaker 5: They have to be chirpy for the world or happy
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  Speaker 5: for the world. But I feel that if those if there,
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  Speaker 5: that happiness or that brokenness or those edges can can
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  Speaker 5: come in front of your audience. It's all right, it's
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  Speaker 5: all right. And I feel that that authenticity, if we
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  Speaker 5: can nature that in any form, whether.
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  Speaker 14: Today we're on video or audio or.
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  Speaker 5: Any other formats, whether it's short form or long form,
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  Speaker 5: if we can hold on to that.
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  Speaker 14: And it's not easy. It's not easy because there might be.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a world that is manicured, that is perfect,
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  Speaker 5: that it's driven by algorithms and reach and numbers, and
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  Speaker 5: you might feel alone.
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  Speaker 14: You might feel that, hey, I'm holding on to being
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  Speaker 14: authentic and and the world is moving past me.
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  Speaker 5: But I feel that that's a battle worth fighting, and
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  Speaker 5: that's something that will really ly build legacies, build deep
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  Speaker 5: connections with audiences.
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  Speaker 14: And.
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  Speaker 5: Will have a generational connect I'm very fortunate that in
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  Speaker 5: India at least one hundred and fifty million people have,
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  Speaker 5: through multiple formats platforms, heard about me successive generations from
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  Speaker 5: you know, teenagers to grandparents, and I have my biggest
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  Speaker 5: fear is to not sound myself on any given day,
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  Speaker 5: in any conversation.
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  Speaker 14: Interesting, and just to hold on to that. I feel
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  Speaker 14: it's it's what will take it through.
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  Speaker 7: As you've transitioned between different storytelling mediums, you just mentioned
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  Speaker 7: it here, whether it's long short and now as you've
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  Speaker 7: voyaged into filmmaking, which we'll get into here. Is there
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  Speaker 7: a secret to storytelling? Is there a sequence to how
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  Speaker 7: a good story should be told? And can you share
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  Speaker 7: this even as you go between you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 7: back in the day reporting on something or allowing for
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  Speaker 7: somebody else to tell their story, And how you guide
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  Speaker 7: the narrative of the questions to now, you know, packaging
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  Speaker 7: it into dialogue in a ninety minute package. Less to
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  Speaker 7: say of a film? Is there a secret? Is there
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  Speaker 7: a common thread there?
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  Speaker 5: There's a description that I use, which is universal emotions.
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  Speaker 5: I think that at the heart of every good story
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  Speaker 5: there has to be a universal emotion. When you watch
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  Speaker 5: Finding Nemo, when a child watches it, and when an
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  Speaker 5: adult watches it with them, what you're looking at is
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  Speaker 5: a child who ventured out of the safe confines of
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  Speaker 5: their home and into a neighborhood as.
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  Speaker 14: A city that was no may perhaps not safe.
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  Speaker 5: It's a parent's core fear, a parent's core universal emotion.
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  Speaker 5: That's why you connect with it. So I feel that
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  Speaker 5: if we understand the universal emotion in every story, the
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  Speaker 5: rest of it is backdrop trappings. The story could be
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  Speaker 5: on the moon. I often say to the writer as
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  Speaker 5: I mentor you take a story, you take the story off.
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  Speaker 5: For example, a boy who has a camel in a
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  Speaker 5: desert and he wakes up in a on a certain
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  Speaker 5: morning and the camel is gone, and he looks for
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  Speaker 5: it and then is desperate.
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  Speaker 14: And and you know, perhaps when they find it.
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  Speaker 5: Now, imagine there's no camel, there's no desert. You're in
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  Speaker 5: New York City. There's a man who has a car.
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  Speaker 5: Does this story still work? One day he walks out
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  Speaker 5: and there's no car, and this is his beloved car.
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  Speaker 5: And then you know, he looks for it, and then
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  Speaker 5: what happens. Often we mistake the backdrop for the story.
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  Speaker 5: We mistake the settings. Hey, let's have a film you
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  Speaker 5: know at the base of the everest, And well, the
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  Speaker 5: base of the everest is not the story. It will
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  Speaker 5: bring some additional elements which will help propel your story,
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  Speaker 5: but it's not the story. And cracking this or understanding
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  Speaker 5: this universal emotion is, you know, it requires you to
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  Speaker 5: be a good person. It requires you to have sensitivity
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  Speaker 5: because otherwise, like, what is this universal emotion? It's a
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  Speaker 5: parent worrying about a child. It's a child worrying about
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  Speaker 5: their future. It's a child being in class saying why
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  Speaker 5: don't others like me?
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  Speaker 14: Why don't Why don't I have friends?
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: It's you know, it's very nuvanced, and yet it's all
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: around us. It's every day living for.
• 29:45
  Speaker 14: Us, for people around us. Can we catch that? That
• 29:49
  Speaker 14: is the secret sauce for.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: All kinds of storytelling, that's at the heart of That's
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: what algorithms prey upon.
• 29:57
  Speaker 14: That's what.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: You know, great storytellers drive upon. So that also comes
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: back to what I said in beginning, which is empathy.
• 30:07
  Speaker 14: Yeah, do you have empathy? Can you? Can you look
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: at the lives of people through their eyes.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: If you can, you can understand emotions better than others,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: And you can put your finger on that little uh
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: you know that that little strand of emotion which which
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: can then propel.
• 30:28
  Speaker 14: The story forward, which is at the heart of the
• 30:30
  Speaker 14: court of the story.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: You know, to me, you're a master of using the pause,
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: the silence. You use it magnificently. Even when I listen
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: to you now, the cadence that you employ as you
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: go through your different parts of your storytelling, as you
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: talk to us, it's masterfully presented. You know, what should
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: one take away from your very deep understanding of giving
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: space to a story and giving space to a moment.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm I'm always surprised when a fellow creator
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: says this because it's I mean, I've never structured myself
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: like this. But the last time someone said this to
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: me was when we were shooting our last film, which
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: is called The Last Batsman, and my fellow actor he said,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: after we have done the shoot, he said, you use
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: your pauses so well. I learned so much. And I said, uh,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: you know, I mean I don't. I don't realize that,
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: but I do feel that, uh the you know, there's
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: a there's a word in in the which is rap courseness.
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: There's a coarseness in our structuring of sentences.
• 31:58
  Speaker 14: They will not be perfect.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: They will stumble here, they will go down that little
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: path somewhere.
• 32:05
  Speaker 14: They will peep out of our window somewhere.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: Our sentences, which when they're reflecting our thoughts and are
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: not manicured, we will sometimes repeat a certain word.
• 32:19
  Speaker 14: And I feel that.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: When when that authenticity and coarseness comes through, then there
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: will be there will be stillness, There will be possessed.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: There will be that time when we will be reflecting
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: on what's the right respectful way to say this. We
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: one of the problems of our times is that ever
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: since social media arrived, we started with packaging our content.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: But then we started packaging ourselves. And when we started
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: packaging ourselves, we started to project ourselves. And it's this
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: this perfect manicure, you know, just sharp at the edges
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: kind of manner.
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: And we did away with.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: The coarseness, with the layers, with the nuances, and and
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: the pause. It's it's funny that you mentioned the pause.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: We once tired or was from a news platform and
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: he was editing an episode of The Slow Interview with
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Manus Batbay and I saw the edit and I and
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: I was.
• 33:37
  Speaker 14: Horrified, and I said, where are the pauses? This is
• 33:41
  Speaker 14: this is the exact word. I said, where are the And.
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: He's probably looking at you, proud of the work that
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: he just did.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and it and it just said the pauses
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: were too long, and there's why I took them out.
• 33:54
  Speaker 14: I said, the pauses are the show.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's true. We'll put yeah, well put
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: you know the slow movement you have. I love it.
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: Because it's honest, but it also fights this short attention
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: spam thing we're discussing here. And do you ever get
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: afraid that we're programmed to not hear the story in
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: it's full and in doing so, never quite understanding the
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: true depths of the human condition? And is that the
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: reason we're all lonely out there referring to your coarseness? Right?
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: No, absolutely, I feel that technology did something.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Technology came up with this tool, the real and the
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: short from content, etc. And without probably realizing, yes, certainly
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: realizing the deep human impact on it was going to
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: have on human productivity, attention, the human nature itself.
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: And I think.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: In an era like that, creators like myself have I
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: mean it it is. It often seems like a like
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: a very unequal battle. But what you do, you you
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: will have to work harder. I mean we can in
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: today's low attention span era. If we have had people
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: for the last ten to fifteen years listening to our
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: stories for say, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, twenty five minutes straight,
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: it's a batter. We have to win every time with
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: every story. We have to work harder, we have to
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: write better, we have to understand. Sure, there is this
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: element of technology people drop off, et cetera, et cetera.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: But I feel, rather than just lamenting, we have to
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: work harder on our craft, which is what I would
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: like to tell all our fellow creators.
• 36:08
  Speaker 14: I mean.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: That, either, you know, it is only the humanness, the
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: human touch of our content that can to some degree
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: start off.
• 36:25
  Speaker 14: The threat that we feel to attention, because otherwise it's
• 36:34
  Speaker 14: an unwinnable battle.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: And so we.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: How do we make our storytelling better, whether it is
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: short format, whether it is longer format, How do.
• 36:47
  Speaker 14: We do films better?
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Like so, if we know that within the first few
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: seconds or the first ten fifteen seconds, attention might drift,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: what do we do to structure writing in a slightly
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: different way without leaving the emotional core or the emotional
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: foundation of it. Play on your pitch, but just play
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: slightly differently, play a few more strokes in the beginning,
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: for example, and then you know, come back and so,
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: to use the cricket analogy.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so it's incredible. I wanted to touch on
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: you know. By the way, I'm sitting here with the
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: great MILESH. Misra, who's spending a Tuesday morning with us here.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: You know, I wanted to turn our attention towards the
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: songwriting as a music show here and a culture show
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: that we carry. We're always playing the music from our culture.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: There's a connection that I believe that I'm going to
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: go out on a limb and try to make here.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: Which is your history in radio and connecting with an
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: audience in the manner that you did. Listeners probably told
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: you so many other, so many times that they they
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: were carried through so many different phases of their life
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: by your presence there. How much did going through that
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: experience help you into becoming the great songwriter that you become.
• 38:22
  Speaker 14: There are two.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Phrases that I use about our work. One is a
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: graceful confidence and the other is humble audacity. I think
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: that as creators, when we have this humble audacity, we
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: will need to stick on to our emotional core and
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: and then there will be, you know, pressures you will
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: be left out or you will see you are not
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: writing MASSI enough content.
• 39:01
  Speaker 14: That is fine.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: I'm very legacy minded when I was whenever I was
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: writing songs for any film, there was always the realization
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: that the composer or the producer might be expecting you
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: to debate your lyrics in a certain way. I've often
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: given up one songs I was offered hook clients which
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: were beneath me to to work on, uh, you know,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: in in in. At one point, uh, composers started giving
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: you hook clients.
• 39:37
  Speaker 14: That's saying that, hey, can you can you build from this.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: So if you're giving given something which is which is
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: well to put it mandually, not literally, then you have
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: to arrive at that through, you know, by writing more
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: lyrics that are not not not parliamentary, so to say,
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: and then you arrive at that hook line. And I
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: felt this, and at one point I gave up writing
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: film lyrics because I was extremely unhappy with the whole
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: process and that that my stakes were not that high
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: that I could I would have to constantly compromise, et cetera.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: And then I started songwriting again for when I could
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: find my own voice, when I could do it on
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: my own terms.
• 40:29
  Speaker 14: I think the pressure before creators to buckle and to
• 40:36
  Speaker 14: conform is enormous.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: When you're dealing with large films, when you're really with
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: the A list actors, film or etc.
• 40:44
  Speaker 14: The pressure is just enormous. The pressure to feel like
• 40:48
  Speaker 14: a part of the room because.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: The rest of the room wants, uh wants only commercial
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: success or, who wants it to be an overnight since
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: But it will be your name.
• 41:00
  Speaker 14: Against that song forever. So often. I mean, all that
• 41:07
  Speaker 14: I look at is that.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Would I want to turn back ten years later, twenty
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: years later and say that I should not have put
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: my name against that.
• 41:15
  Speaker 14: It was just a you know, it was just a
• 41:17
  Speaker 14: night of work. It was just a day of work.
• 41:20
  Speaker 14: You sent that nail off or texted it. But it
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: doesn't stop that follow totally. Yeah. Yes, it's not like
• 41:29
  Speaker 14: a job that's done. Okay, well I'm done and stead
• 41:32
  Speaker 14: I'm working away. No, it'll follow you forever.
• 41:34
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: So for creators, the.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Blessing, the bliss, the opportunity, the legacy of being a creator.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: The Internet will never forget, audiences will never forget. You
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: write one piece of class cross lyrics, and you know,
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: people will just put that against everything good.
• 41:57
  Speaker 14: You've written in it. So I think.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: I have always had that in mind, and I've always
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: tried to never writing clean, decent, purposeful lyrics already any
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: of my content. That's the cornerstone. I will never buckle
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: for any The biggest of opportunities. And I often say
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: that in the huge mainstream, I have my own mainstream.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not playing on the fringes. You know,
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: I have my own mainstream.
• 42:34
  Speaker 14: I'm playing on the main pitch.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, there is a much larger universe content universe out there,
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: but I'm very, very content without traversing that humongous universe.
• 42:47
  Speaker 14: I have my own universe, which is huge enough, huge
• 42:52
  Speaker 14: enough for me to keep trying constantly new formats. I
• 42:58
  Speaker 14: was a journalist. I was writing stories for newspapers. But
• 43:04
  Speaker 14: I chose still reporting.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: I chose human narratives. I traveled to the remotest part
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: of the country. It taught me storytelling.
• 43:12
  Speaker 14: It taught me the human emotion. It taught me to
• 43:14
  Speaker 14: be a good listener to begin with.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: And then you know, the film Songs followed, where one
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: tried to follow a certain brain, a certain fiber.
• 43:25
  Speaker 14: Of writing without compromising.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Then the.
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: Before the sort of Word podcast came to India in
• 43:33
  Speaker 14: twenty eighteen, we started the slow Interview. It's sort of
• 43:38
  Speaker 14: set of new genre.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: Before the spoken word came in into India, one started the.
• 43:46
  Speaker 14: The storytelling. Unknowingly, I've always gone.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: Against the current unknowingly there's no activist ze here that
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: drives me to do chello, let's.
• 43:55
  Speaker 14: Do something different.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: But unknowingly one has set off new parts myself, but
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: then they became pass for others. Also, when storytelling happened,
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: when I started down Connection as a rural content engine,
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: you know, rural content was completely unfashionable, and now all platforms,
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: all the big companies want to start that. When the
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: slow interview happened, people said like who will hear long conversations?
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: And then suddenly the whole podcast.
• 44:23
  Speaker 14: So I feel that.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: I have tried to bravely, with my humble audacity hold
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: on to that core and say I want to do this.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: There's no Excel sheet that's driving me. There's no marketing
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: wisdom that's driving me. It's pure instinct that has you know,
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: driven me through my life. Now we've started films, yea
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: a film vertical where you know, normally when you have films,
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: they're thought of in Bombay there and then they percolate
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: that we are creating films from the heartland, their thought
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: through in the heartland and you know, building ground up,
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: ground up.
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: Well, well, I have a question about this. My question
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: to you is that you have you know you you
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: started out as a journalist, and then you're hosting, and
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: then you have gone on to carry these dialogues and
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: these conversations in a long form way along the way,
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: I almost get the feeling that you knew that this
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: was going to be. I wouldn't want to say the
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: end result of all of this kind of intelligence that
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: you'd been gathering in terms of storytelling and what has
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: moved people. But is it safe for me to assume
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: that this new chapter of you be it a new
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: phase of your storytelling?
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: Uh?
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: Is this? Is this the most challenging for you? Is
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: this the one that stretches you into into a different
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: shape that perhaps you were never in before? And if so,
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: tell us about this. Uh the films, Yeah, filmmaking.
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, because see, this is the first time when
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: the outcome of my effort is not dependent on me alone. Yeah.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: Until now, Yeah, until now, it was just me. I
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: had to work hard. I had to narrate that story, well,
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: do that conversation. Well, you know, now for the first time,
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: there's a large team in work and this is a struggle.
• 46:30
  Speaker 14: So I'll tell you how it started.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: I was offered I never looked at acting I've acted
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: also in this these two films, so I never looked
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: at acting. But a couple of years ago it was
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: offered a role one of the three main characters in
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: this huge ott series which became a cult hit in India.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: And when we know, we did the tracks, everything was done.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: I was going to Bombay for the workshop and before
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: that I said, I have only one condition.
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: I will not use bad language. That is my only condition.
• 47:13
  Speaker 14: I will not swear on screen. I will not abuse.
• 47:17
  Speaker 14: And they said no, no, the character is like an
• 47:20
  Speaker 14: educated politician and you know, there's no such fear. But
• 47:25
  Speaker 14: when I went, the first thing that the director said was,
• 47:30
  Speaker 14: Sir Gully, any particular to swear a lot. That's the
• 47:34
  Speaker 14: first thing he says. Can you believe it?
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it was the director's ego at like,
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: how dare you put that as a condition.
• 47:44
  Speaker 14: In today's day. I don't know what it was.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: Other directors told me that it was probably his ego.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: And I sat there, you know, like a little mouse,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: through that session the whole day and and at the
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: end of the day day I call up the casting
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: director Mookie.
• 48:05
  Speaker 14: I said, I think I'm the wrong person. And I
• 48:09
  Speaker 14: left the series, and thank god I did. Now.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: After that, there were also a couple of other roles
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: that were offered, and additional request keep coming. But I
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: realized that I will never have control. Yeah yeah, see,
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: so I said, like I, I will have to do
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: this in my way so that I am in control
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: of every single frame.
• 48:36
  Speaker 14: You know, the the the dialogue should not Why do.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: People write in abuses or bad language or sexually theotypic
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: languageause they cannot write, They cannot work hard to create
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: good content. They use these shortcuts. You can't write, well,
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: you use this. Yeah, so I said, we will. We
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: will write writing led films. We will create writing led films,
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: and then uh, that's how it. But I didn't know
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: anything about production.
• 49:11
  Speaker 14: I didn't know.
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think this the first steps that I've taken.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: We are going to be shooting our third film now
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: very soon, are such and as ready. I would love to,
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: by the way, bring them to the United States. I
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: would I would love to show them to larger audiences.
• 49:25
  Speaker 14: And we're also learning.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: The first film is called coud As a Jump, which
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: is the story of two people, two strangers, who come to.
• 49:38
  Speaker 14: The same bridge one morning to die and then what happens.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: And the second father Son's story, Father eighty two year
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: old Dimension has dementia, the sun strug give his own
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: problems and then how.
• 50:02
  Speaker 14: He navigates around the situation. So they will all again.
• 50:08
  Speaker 14: They will have the same purpose lens that all my
• 50:11
  Speaker 14: other work has had.
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: They will be writing. But it is not easy this
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: whole Uh. You know, we had to uh as the
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: writers don't realize the kind.
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: Of situations that filmmaking help. We had to uh.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: A manequin had to be thrown into the river, and
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: the manequin was thrown and it didn't think, so you
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: had to put thones in it, in their trousers of
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: the manequins, so that good thing and then we would
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: later pull it out. But so, I mean, as a writer,
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: you can never imagine the kind of and they it's
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: pour in the morning and you know it's freezing and
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: it's the winter morning. Can you know, Yeah, it's a
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: new word completely, It's very exciting. I also realized at
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: the end of it how it is so addictive. Why
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: do people just keep making.
• 51:13
  Speaker 14: Films all they they don't you know, move to other
• 51:16
  Speaker 14: that's all that they want to do. I realized that
• 51:19
  Speaker 14: so it is very addictive with part and but I
• 51:24
  Speaker 14: don't want to give.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: Up, you know what I'm really also, so I've watched
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: the new season of my storytelling.
• 51:33
  Speaker 14: Show on my app and on my YouTube, and then
• 51:37
  Speaker 14: the film is happening and new songs happening. Too many
• 51:43
  Speaker 14: balls in the air at any.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: Point, So that's awesome, mister mister. I want to thank
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: you for your time this morning. An absolute delight. It
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: was as enthralling as I had imagined this conversation to be.
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: And thank you very much for being so open with
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: us and sharing all of the these very intimate experiences
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  Speaker 7: with our audience. Mister Nilish Mistra, thank you so much
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  Speaker 7: for joining us.
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  Speaker 14: Thank you, Sammy, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 7: All Right, folks, now let's turn it over to Douitadas Gutta,
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  Speaker 7: who's got today's artist spotlight for you.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 23: Everyone, this is the Da Da Gupta Rukasavni radio music
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  Speaker 23: correspondent back with another artist spotlight. Today, we're spotlighting global
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  Speaker 23: Punjabi superstar Diljit Do Sane, the singer, actor and cultural
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  Speaker 23: icon who continues breaking barriers for South Asian music on
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  Speaker 23: the world stage, from chart topping albums to sold out
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  Speaker 23: international tours, Diljit has become one of the most recognizable
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  Speaker 23: Punjabi artists worldwide, known for his hits like Goat, Born
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  Speaker 23: to Shine and Lover. Twenty twenty six has already been
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  Speaker 23: massive for him. In April, Diljit made his highly anticipated
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  Speaker 23: return to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he
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  Speaker 23: not only performed his viral new track Morny, but also
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  Speaker 23: taught Salen Pungra on national television, a huge cultural moment
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  Speaker 23: for pan Jabi music globally. He's also been making way
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  Speaker 23: to this international collaboration Rancha alongside Cia and David Getta,
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  Speaker 23: blending Punjabi melodies with global pop and electronic sounds in
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  Speaker 23: a way only dil Jeep can. Meanwhile, Mornie has quickly
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  Speaker 23: become one of the most biggest Punjabi tracks of the year,
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  Speaker 23: with fans worldwide praising its fulk energy, live performance style
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  Speaker 23: and celebration of Punjabi culture, whether it's Hollywood talk shows,
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  Speaker 23: global collaborations, or bringing Punjabi music.
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  Speaker 14: To entirely new audiences.
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  Speaker 23: Tilgit the Sane continues proving that his artistry has no
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  Speaker 23: borders and honestly, he's only getting bigger.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's all for me.
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  Speaker 23: Stay tuned for more only on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's at the back end of the second back
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  Speaker 7: to back night, selling out in Chase Arena in the
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  Speaker 7: Bay as he moves himself eastward. Now for the rest
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  Speaker 7: of the US, there's the song morning and after this,
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  Speaker 7: I'll be back with some closing remarks.
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  Speaker 11: A father like me.
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  Speaker 20: Canna getsie the go canny und then Compuney, you can
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  Speaker 20: eat on the knuckle, Puney. I'm telling you connect your heart.
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  Speaker 20: Everybody in there in your heads to get there? Can
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  Speaker 20: Hart ever cast to get there? The Calaharty Mondy and
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  Speaker 20: what's that piece of Canna get the guitar up? Call jumper?
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  Speaker 20: Their part shall be I up and so h shappy
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  Speaker 20: eye up and soda and Becky got the head he
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  Speaker 20: had department, the dying you tanging that honey to me?
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  Speaker 20: Didn't I anything on them? The phone on helm there,
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  Speaker 20: the gut there the tell he.
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  Speaker 11: Cast the gut there, honey money you check you out your.
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  Speaker 14: What you have done up?
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  Speaker 11: Put you and put you came up the sun.
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  Speaker 4: Honey.
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  Speaker 7: I can that got you back?
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  Speaker 19: That look bad?
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  Speaker 17: He bad?
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  Speaker 2: Got that look bad?
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  Speaker 20: Then you certainly ya cut me out, repay and cowper
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  Speaker 20: lead can you get then they buddy coat.
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  Speaker 17: There there.
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  Speaker 11: There check me.
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  Speaker 7: Bill J tho songs. Everybody not sure if you had
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  Speaker 7: a chance to check out that moment where somebody jumps
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  Speaker 7: on stage there in the middle of his opening song.
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  Speaker 7: Security had to kind of grab him a moment. Bill
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  Speaker 7: j of course kept his composure and kept it going,
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  Speaker 7: picked up like about you know three words later was
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  Speaker 7: right back in with the dance step. It was pretty
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  Speaker 7: phenomenal to watch. Folks wanted to give a big shout
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  Speaker 7: out to NILESH. Misra today. Let me tell you, guys
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  Speaker 7: what you heard. You can hear the mastery the moment NILESH.
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  Speaker 7: Misra speaks, and it didn't come from nowhere. He spent
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  Speaker 7: years delivering the news to a country, standing in the
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  Speaker 7: places where the stories happened and carrying back only the
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  Speaker 7: parts that mattered. He knew how to find them, he
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  Speaker 7: knew how to hand them to you. But what you
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  Speaker 7: never saw him polishing was the voice, the delivery, everything
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  Speaker 7: invincible that a voice can do to a story once
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  Speaker 7: the pictures are gone. He knew he could compel you.
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  Speaker 7: He knew what to lead with how to walk you,
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  Speaker 7: step by step to the exact place he wanted you
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  Speaker 7: to feel something. And then radio taught him the lesson.
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  Speaker 7: Most people in this business never learn the value of silence,
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  Speaker 7: the cadence, the space between the words. It took away
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  Speaker 7: the screen and made his voice responsible for selling you
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  Speaker 7: the invisible. But here's something I'll carry out of this conversation.
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  Speaker 7: Nielesh understands the human condition so completely that he can
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  Speaker 7: tell you any story. And the length, the format, the
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  Speaker 7: silence is all of it. It's just context for something simple,
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  Speaker 7: underneath something we all share. He isn't handing you words.
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  Speaker 7: He isn't even handing you the silence he places so
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  Speaker 7: carefully between them. With Knielesh, misra is really offering is compassion.
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  Speaker 7: His voice doesn't comfort you through some trick of the trade.
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  Speaker 7: It comforts you through the human journey itself, the one
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  Speaker 7: we're all walking, whether we say it out loud or not.
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  Speaker 7: And that is a rare gift, a very rare gift.
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  Speaker 7: And you heard it here on the bridge. I'll see
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  Speaker 7: you guys tomorrow, everybody, and I'll leave you with shove.
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  Speaker 7: This song is called Bounce.
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  Speaker 8: I have a great day, everybody, A coal.
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  Speaker 15: Play again.
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  Speaker 24: Now the Conchy I'm a hardy now they're jump sign
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  Speaker 24: about Harley friendly bark overpay pay no by my happening cat,
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