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July 30, 2026 — "Sammy Chand interviews Q" · The Bridge by Sammy Chand

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Speaker 1: South Asian music and cultures can be found around the world.
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Speaker 2: We tracked down the best and presented here.
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Speaker 1: For you on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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Speaker 3: Hi, I'm on QUICKTVARDI and you're listening to Rugas Avenue Radio.
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Speaker 4: Hey, this is Kurt Kylie and you're listening to the
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Speaker 4: Bridge with Sammi Chak.
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Speaker 3: Hey, this is viv Does and you're listening to The
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Speaker 3: Bridge with Sammy John on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
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Speaker 5: Welcome to the Signal. Thank you for finding me wherever
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Speaker 5: you may be around the world. My name is Sammy John,
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Speaker 5: and welcome everybody to a July thirtieth edition of The Bridge.
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Speaker 5: I can't believe we're closing out July.
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Speaker 3: Here.
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Speaker 5: Tomorrow's episode is a top twenty countdown show. I'm super
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Speaker 5: excited about the show and looking forward to doing the
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Speaker 5: top twenty songs that we have in our arsenal for you.
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Speaker 5: But today, yeah, today, we've got a show for you.
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Speaker 5: We'll be joined today by Colzier Molkhertie and I wanted
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Speaker 5: to start by stating his full name in case you
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Speaker 5: need to go look him up, but over time he
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Speaker 5: has abbreviated that down to Q and today the filmmaker
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Speaker 5: and self admitted failed musician, will be joining us on
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Speaker 5: the show today. So if you know any of the
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Speaker 5: films like Brahma Namen or any of the other greats
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Speaker 5: like that that you may have seen through whether it's
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Speaker 5: the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles or any other
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Speaker 5: film festival around the world, and you're familiar with his work,
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Speaker 5: looking forward to talking to him today. We'll be joined
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Speaker 5: today by the Ruckus Avenue Radio All Stars, as we
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Speaker 5: do every day on the show, We'll be joined by
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Speaker 5: us Aurora Asashi brings you a preview of what to
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Speaker 5: expect on her show coming up this Monday on the Signal,
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Speaker 5: Got doctor Roy for you, Got data for you today
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Speaker 5: as well. It's gonna be great. And of course, folks,
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Speaker 5: looking forward to tomorrow's Top twenty Countdown show. And yesterday
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Speaker 5: we had a Munchkin takeover take over this studio. It
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Speaker 5: was a lot of fun doing the show with my
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Speaker 5: daughter for sure. Well, folks, welcome to the Thursday show.
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Speaker 5: Great combination of artists right there coming together for that track.
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Speaker 5: are coming up and get some of the visuals around
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Speaker 5: It's a beautiful collaboration. One of the finer songs that
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Speaker 5: you will hear amongst two Indian collaborators. Right there on
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Speaker 5: a song and of Jane ap Dillon. The song called
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Speaker 5: of Source, great stuff there and folks, now, let's bring
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Speaker 5: in our own Doctor Roy, who brings you a daily
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Speaker 5: word on the avenue right here on the bridge. What's up,
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Speaker 5: doctr Roy? How you doing?
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Speaker 19: Hey, guys, this is doctor Roy with today's word on
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Speaker 19: the avenue. In film and TV news, Hollywood star Matt
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Speaker 19: Damon has expressed his admiration for acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shikha Kapor,
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Speaker 19: revealing that he would love to collaborate with him in
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Speaker 19: the future. Damon also shared that he was once considered
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Speaker 19: for Kapoor's epic war drama The Four Feathers, but was
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Speaker 19: unable to join the project due to his commitment to
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Speaker 19: the born identity, making the possibility of a future collaboration
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Speaker 19: all the more exciting for cinema lovers across the globe.
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Speaker 19: In media news, Mindy Kayling recently shared in an interview
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Speaker 19: that she may bring Indianmarica and stories to screens around
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Speaker 19: the world, but at home, she faces a challenge familiar
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Speaker 19: to many parents, introducing children to the foods she loves.
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Speaker 19: The actor and writer recently shared that while her kids
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Speaker 19: remain picky eaters when it comes to Indian cuisine, she
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Speaker 19: happily uses work trips as an opportunity to savor her
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Speaker 19: favorite South Indian dishes, including dosas and Italy's, proving that
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Speaker 19: a love for one's culinary roots never really fades. In
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Speaker 19: event news, while fans eagerly awaited the global trailer launch
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Speaker 19: of Ramyn at San Diego Common Con, the unveiling was
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Speaker 19: postponed following changes to the film's international release plans after
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Speaker 19: Sony Pictures came on board as its global distributor outside India.
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Speaker 19: Despite the delay, the star studed panel featuring Rounbir Kopur, Yesh,
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Speaker 19: director Natheesh Devadi and producer Nomaed Milhotra offered audiences an
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Speaker 19: exciting glimpse into the ambitious cinematic adaptation, with Yesh praising
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Speaker 19: Runbier's commitment and portrayal of Lord Rahm. That's it for
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Speaker 19: today's word on the Avenue until next time.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So many people that I know went down to
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Speaker 5: Comic Con down there came back raving about not only
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Speaker 5: that panel discussion, but the trailer that was shown and
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Speaker 5: all the festivities in between. Looking forward to seeing that
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Speaker 5: film for sure. This song is called naz by Simmer jaud.
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Speaker 22: Papi and has heard that the.
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Speaker 2: Took a cake.
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Speaker 23: A lady loki under him and norway, okay, look the
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Speaker 21: He said to job had a puppy and nurse heard
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Speaker 21: out to the Jama.
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Speaker 1: He has a wonder by kind of out about.
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Speaker 21: He said to job a puppy and nurse heard, Oh God,
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Speaker 21: just the jammers. I wonder ya Karnavataba.
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Speaker 5: Love talking to Simmern on this show, A great conversation,
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Speaker 5: the song called Nazada Uta and folks. Now, let's bring
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Speaker 5: in Ashi Aurora into the show. She's the host of
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Speaker 5: the show called Leaders Creating Ruckus that airs every Monday
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Speaker 5: at four pm Pacific time seven pm along the East Coast.
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Speaker 5: What's up, Ashi, Thanks Sammy.
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Speaker 24: This week on Leaders Creating Ruckus meet doctor Swati Shah
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Speaker 24: and Obi Guyn, doctor turned business owner. Tune in this
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Speaker 24: Monday at four pm Pacific Standard time as we talk
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Speaker 24: all about connections and relationships and how even as an
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Speaker 24: introvert you can be the best networker.
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Speaker 5: Back to you, Sammy, thank you so much for that.
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Speaker 25: Ashi.
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Speaker 5: We're looking forward to the show this Monday, and for
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Speaker 5: Cry who will ever forget? At Cheering's tour through India
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Speaker 5: this summer and really planted some seeds for the future.
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Speaker 5: You better believe that she'll be back again and with
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Speaker 5: her bigger audience. I was really impressed by how well
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Speaker 5: she engaged everybody here.
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Speaker 5: It's from that movie called Geha Great soundtrack. Next song
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Speaker 5: we've got for you is we start to get ready
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Speaker 5: to pull in our guests for today. Who is of
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Speaker 5: course the man I told you was Q joining us
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Speaker 5: Right after the song. The song is called Bajara and
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Speaker 5: it's by Upper Shakti Gurana. Everybody looking forward to talking
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Speaker 5: the queue right after this, Let's pull in the filmmaker.
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Speaker 5: Right after the.
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Speaker 29: Songsamon Ga area the area for.
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Speaker 5: Fake for.
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Speaker 26: Sara Jeli any Goody, Chelali, any Kodia, Jelly, any courier
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Speaker 26: Bahara Chi.
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Speaker 29: Any along man come under super Nato Tsunama very soon
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Speaker 29: the Sunama leg.
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Speaker 30: Deep Charaduzara, Senato.
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Speaker 26: Che any Kodi Bahara, Chellali, any Kody Bahara, Chelali Auri Bahara.
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Speaker 1: Any Guria.
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Speaker 30: And the sad people Vegasari, Bernie Mayratusori Sahara, col Bernie
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Speaker 30: Meyrausori Sahara, Klin Chikuri, Cheli.
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Speaker 26: Any Guri Bahara, Chi any Guri Bahara, Jellally any Gur.
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Speaker 5: Bahara, and ladies and gentlemen. As I was mentioning to you,
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Speaker 5: this is a special one. How are you cute? Nice
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Speaker 5: to join you on the show here.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely fantastic to be here with you. Man, it's great,
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me.
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Speaker 5: I got a chance to really dive into your story
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Speaker 5: this week in anticipation of this interview, and I wanted
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Speaker 5: to start by telling you how especially proud I am
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Speaker 5: as a musician that you have led this career that
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Speaker 5: you have. You've taken music, this background of music, you've
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Speaker 5: turned it into a filmmaker extraordinaire. And before I start
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Speaker 5: this interview, I wanted to first, you know, give you
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Speaker 5: a big high five from the brethren of the music
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Speaker 5: industry to just you know, congratulate you on this journey
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Speaker 5: that you've been and just how much you use music
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Speaker 5: in your film. To me, it's not a soundtrack. To me,
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Speaker 5: it's like a backbone of the visuals that you use. Brother,
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Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us on the show and tell us
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Speaker 5: about the marriage of music and film in your work.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Sammy Man, I mean you've got it. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know you you are an accomplished musician. Then you
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Speaker 3: know I hardly am my film career. My career actually
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Speaker 3: went off because I chased it music. So I always
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Speaker 3: say that I'm a failed musician and what I wanted
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Speaker 3: to do I could never do in music, and I
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Speaker 3: had to make films to be able to make that
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Speaker 3: music happen, because that's mainly because of where I am.
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Speaker 3: You know where where I come from, which is Coolcata.
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Speaker 3: We're back up beyond and you know, nobody really expects
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Speaker 3: sort of super progressive stuff to come from here. So
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Speaker 3: it was really cool when we started getting accepted back
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Speaker 3: in two thousand and nine, when I started putting my workout,
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Speaker 3: and then of course Ghandu happened in twenty eleven and
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Speaker 3: we started touring the world with our music. My band
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Speaker 3: that time was GANDU Circus, and we made between me
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Speaker 3: and Neil la Ricari, my musical partner.
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Speaker 5: That's trying to me.
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Speaker 3: Shout out to Neil Man. He is the main man.
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Speaker 3: He I mean, we did so many films and albums
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Speaker 3: and soundtracks and singles together. I can't even found them,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 3: Actually the great part of now is that I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to reconcile that music all together and start bringing it
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Speaker 3: out again, because you know, we suffered from a big
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Speaker 3: problem in distribution, and slowly we tried to address that,
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Speaker 3: and we did with the Netrix drop of all my films.
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Speaker 3: Netrics actually came into Asia, launched in Asia with my films,
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Speaker 3: so one way we got the distribution done, you know,
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Speaker 3: film wise, but music wise, I think now the time
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Speaker 3: that we should bring those that music out and in
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Speaker 3: a very different way for the new audience. India changed,
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Speaker 3: you know, and I'm super charged about that.
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Speaker 5: That's exciting. It's a whole new frontier for creatives out
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Speaker 5: there for sure. And you know, there's an interesting part
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Speaker 5: about your story that I discovered, Q was that, you know,
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Speaker 5: you have a background, of course, you know, growing up
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Speaker 5: in Calcutta and then you went on to spend twelve
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Speaker 5: years in an advertising agency working across many you know, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 5: And it's really interesting to me because in that business,
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Speaker 5: you're you're trying to convince somebody else's story. You're telling
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Speaker 5: somebody else's story out there. It's not your own, yeah,
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Speaker 5: but you have to put yourself into their shoes and
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Speaker 5: project their vision and their story onto the people. What
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Speaker 5: did that teach you about your own storytelling?
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Speaker 3: I think what it taught me most. I mean, I
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Speaker 3: was really lucky in advertising. I got into really cool
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Speaker 3: agencies with really cool boxes will let me do whatever
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Speaker 3: I really wanted to do.
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Speaker 5: And what I really realized is that the idea.
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Speaker 3: Of brand building and something that struck me back then
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Speaker 3: was that, you know, artists can make their own brand.
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Speaker 3: And back then, you know, we we in India, most
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Speaker 3: artists come from a social afflective background and we sort
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Speaker 3: of looked down on the brand new bait and the
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Speaker 3: marketing bit and that's what my training was as well.
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Speaker 3: But what advertising really taught me was that the world
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Speaker 3: was going into this consumption pattern that could be predictable,
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Speaker 3: and this is something that the market always would work
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Speaker 3: on and this is inevitable. And that's what really happened.
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Speaker 3: And I think what I could at that point of time,
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Speaker 3: I could do was to apply the understanding and the
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Speaker 3: learnings that I had from advertising onto myself and create
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Speaker 3: this new character called Q. You know, Q comes from
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Speaker 3: a Japanese film called Visitor Q. So my daddy is
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Speaker 3: actually Japanese and he's Takashi Maiking. Right, So I come
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Speaker 3: from a film. I am born out of a film.
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Speaker 3: And that that idea would be only you know, would
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Speaker 3: only come to you if you're in the middle pick
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Speaker 3: of advertising logic. And I was working with male French.
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Speaker 3: I was working with the best of the best in
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Speaker 3: the business.
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Speaker 5: Fact.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was in Sri Lanka, which was not
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Speaker 3: like India, which is which led me free, you know,
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Speaker 3: And I could work through the islands and the beautiful,
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Speaker 3: beautiful time, beautiful friends I made and a lot of
33:13
Speaker 3: courage that I got to actually start doing this by
33:17
Speaker 3: myself and build a brand.
33:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, what a story. Incredible. Let's talk about this film, Gandu.
33:24
Speaker 5: Incredible you put this out? Oh my goodness, what fifteen
33:27
Speaker 5: years ago? How long has it been?
33:30
Speaker 8: Yeah?
33:30
Speaker 5: Fifteen years my goodness.
33:33
Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah.
33:34
Speaker 3: Twenty ten is when Gandu was made, twenty eleven when
33:37
Speaker 3: it was shown, and twenty eleven in November the film
33:41
Speaker 3: was leaked on pirate Bay and that's what late led
33:46
Speaker 3: to Gandhu being Gandhu. And I can tell you now
33:50
Speaker 3: that it was me and I was working with Pirate
33:53
Speaker 3: Bay to prove to the world that digital distribution was
33:57
Speaker 3: the future.
33:58
Speaker 11: Wow, you know.
34:00
Speaker 3: And and agent filmmakers including Monko y or Kim Kidok,
34:04
Speaker 3: who are my titles, they've also come out and said
34:08
Speaker 3: that without piracy, wouldn't we wouldn't have been seen, you know,
34:11
Speaker 3: we wouldn't have been able to do anything that we
34:15
Speaker 3: ended up doing. And I think I have to really
34:19
Speaker 3: thank the Internet. The Internet at one point zero, yes,
34:23
Speaker 3: you know, which is free and beautiful and independent, and
34:28
Speaker 3: we thought that the future had come to us. It
34:30
Speaker 3: has really and now with two point zero and three
34:33
Speaker 3: point zero of Internet that we see with lots of
34:36
Speaker 3: conditions and restrictions. Even then, the youth of India talking
34:42
Speaker 3: right now, it's a beautiful time.
34:43
Speaker 12: Man.
34:44
Speaker 3: We've just had a revolution. I mean, we're just starting
34:47
Speaker 3: the you know, seeds of change. It's it's the winds
34:50
Speaker 3: of change are blowing it. I'm the happiest right now.
34:54
Speaker 5: You know, if the film comes out today, how different
34:57
Speaker 5: does it do then back then?
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Speaker 3: I think I think that was the time when Ghandhu
35:04
Speaker 3: came out, man, I mean Gandhu with Gandhu Ghandhu because
35:07
Speaker 3: it helped it talked about it documented that time just
35:11
Speaker 3: before social media, when there was the Internet, there was accessibility,
35:16
Speaker 3: but it was not like full on, you know, it
35:19
Speaker 3: was not motivated, controls regulated in the way that it
35:23
Speaker 3: is right now. So I think Gandhu was the celebration
35:27
Speaker 3: of that and the idea that a little guy from
35:32
Speaker 3: Howrah could actually be exposed to the music of Asian
35:37
Speaker 3: that foundations and be inspired from it and be, you know,
35:41
Speaker 3: do making music, which is like Gandhu was a musician.
35:45
Speaker 3: Ghandu is a rapper. No one understands him there, you know,
35:48
Speaker 3: and all his music is in his mind, you know,
35:51
Speaker 3: and I can see it because I'm making a film
35:53
Speaker 3: on him. But actually I'm the Gandhu because I've written
35:56
Speaker 3: the song. So it is such a beautiful you know.
36:02
Speaker 3: You know, we were in much. It was really totally
36:05
Speaker 3: motion kind of process, and I don't think that we
36:10
Speaker 3: can manage it right now. But there's another kind of
36:13
Speaker 3: thing that will happened now, you know, another kind of
36:16
Speaker 3: Gando that's happening right now. Gandu is cockroach right.
36:19
Speaker 5: Right exactly, yes, exactly. Well put, yeah, I got to
36:28
Speaker 5: hear of your name back then when this film was
36:32
Speaker 5: out In my early iteration of my work, I was
36:35
Speaker 5: involved in the hip hop industry through a group called Kharmacy,
36:38
Speaker 5: and we were touring around a lot at that time.
36:40
Speaker 5: And right before you put out that film, you know,
36:44
Speaker 5: we we kind of you know, stopped our work at
36:47
Speaker 5: the time. But when we started to see these films
36:50
Speaker 5: come out and the story of hip hop being told,
36:54
Speaker 5: it really touched our heart because to me, the film,
36:57
Speaker 5: when I saw your film, to me, it was like
36:59
Speaker 5: one of the first you return signals of hip hop
37:02
Speaker 5: coming back to us from India, you know, and it
37:05
Speaker 5: was a way, you know, it was a very interesting time.
37:08
Speaker 5: And then I've seen your career and your name keeps
37:10
Speaker 5: popping up even here to the Indian Film Festival of
37:14
Speaker 5: La with a film called Brahma Namen. Your films have
37:17
Speaker 5: done remarkable things outside of India. They have done what
37:22
Speaker 5: I would consider an amazing job of being an ambassador
37:27
Speaker 5: of the culture. And as you see this world democratize,
37:31
Speaker 5: things are so much they're accessible everywhere. You can get
37:35
Speaker 5: to anything now, you know, as a filmmaker, tell us
37:38
Speaker 5: about this new frontier, tell us about the new plateau
37:41
Speaker 5: for somebody like you, who has oftentimes lived on the
37:45
Speaker 5: outskirts of the film industry in certain ways, you know,
37:48
Speaker 5: with these films that have not necessarily been considered mainstream.
37:51
Speaker 5: Let's just say, and here you are now marrying film
37:54
Speaker 5: and music. Music has taken off around the world from
37:58
Speaker 5: our subcontinent. Film is becoming more available. How excited are you? Q?
38:05
Speaker 3: Well, you know, as I was telling you earlier, you know,
38:09
Speaker 3: the last seven years were very weird and complex and
38:14
Speaker 3: socio politically agitating. But what has happened now is really
38:20
Speaker 3: cool because the Internet is shifting again. The algorithmic prison
38:27
Speaker 3: that we were in is kind of people are starting
38:31
Speaker 3: to get to know about that. And the best people
38:33
Speaker 3: these people is the new audience. This is the new audience.
38:38
Speaker 3: This is the youth of now who do not have
38:41
Speaker 3: the baggage that we had to contend with in our
38:44
Speaker 3: generation and the next. You know, I find that's so
38:47
Speaker 3: liberating that now it is zero. You know, you play
38:52
Speaker 3: on zero. We always played in minus. We had to
38:55
Speaker 3: work our way and from underneath the system to over.
39:00
Speaker 3: Now everyone's equal, you know, and that that's something that
39:04
Speaker 3: I've always believed in equality, And this is what we
39:08
Speaker 3: are seeing in India right now happening. We saw it
39:11
Speaker 3: in Bangladesh a few you know, a year and a
39:15
Speaker 3: half back. We just saw it in Nepal happening, We've
39:18
Speaker 3: seen it in Sri Lanka. Subcontinent is shifting. And I'm
39:21
Speaker 3: talking only about the subcontinent. Of course, we have a
39:23
Speaker 3: global presence. My fiams have always played there. As you
39:27
Speaker 3: just said, I have been a Berlin alumni. I was
39:31
Speaker 3: in Sundance with Brahma Naman.
39:33
Speaker 1: I was.
39:34
Speaker 3: I mean, I was doing the A list festivals mainly
39:37
Speaker 3: because that was the only way that you could be
39:39
Speaker 3: seen and be you know, audited and by curators who
39:44
Speaker 3: would tell you, okay, you're validated now. And now we
39:47
Speaker 3: could say, okay, these guys valuated me. Now look at me.
39:50
Speaker 3: You know that shit is gone. Man, that is so cool.
39:53
Speaker 3: I think that we are onto a new new path
39:58
Speaker 3: right now. And I oops that this spot throws up
40:02
Speaker 3: new ideas and new ways of dealing with these problems.
40:06
Speaker 3: And they are and I'm super eager to learn.
40:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's remarkable, Q, this is awesome. I have a
40:13
Speaker 5: question for you. My final question is it's one of
40:17
Speaker 5: my favorite questions I like to ask creatives such as yourself.
40:21
Speaker 5: There is a young kid in Calculta right now, who
40:25
Speaker 5: is ten eleven twelve. He is a big hip hop
40:31
Speaker 5: head because the industry is emerging in India. And he
40:36
Speaker 5: is of course very very comfortable in working a camera
40:41
Speaker 5: because he's had an iPhone in his hand or some
40:43
Speaker 5: sort of phone or something. Yeah, and he looks at
40:46
Speaker 5: you with amazement. He says, manque, what he did and
40:51
Speaker 5: what he's doing out there is an inspiration. What would
40:55
Speaker 5: you tell that young young gentleman or young lady sit
41:00
Speaker 5: in Calculta right now that is looking for the path forward?
41:04
Speaker 5: What advice would you give them?
41:05
Speaker 12: You?
41:08
Speaker 3: And I would I wouldn't actually advise them, I would
41:13
Speaker 3: ask for their advice. Brother, I'm telling you these kids
41:18
Speaker 3: are onto something else. And what we've seen in the
41:21
Speaker 3: last week, last two weeks in India the way to
41:26
Speaker 3: deal with establishment, which is what we have done. I
41:29
Speaker 3: have always done that, the way to move yourself in
41:35
Speaker 3: your path come what made and our systems have always
41:40
Speaker 3: been against us, and so is the system against that
41:43
Speaker 3: ten year, twelve year old, fourteen year old who's working
41:46
Speaker 3: right now in Calcutta or who's thinking of working, you know.
41:51
Speaker 3: And I'm glad to tell you that I'm here in person.
41:55
Speaker 3: I am here in Cookata and we are not only
41:57
Speaker 3: looking at Cokata but the whole big all and how
42:01
Speaker 3: to energize the young musicians of beingals to come up
42:06
Speaker 3: with really original stuff. So one key thing is not
42:10
Speaker 3: to follow. Do not follow me, do not follow anybody.
42:14
Speaker 3: Just to your own shit. And that's whatever your inspirations are.
42:19
Speaker 3: You know, they will percolate into your work without you
42:23
Speaker 3: trying to think. If you really like it, if you
42:25
Speaker 3: really love the work, it will be in your blood,
42:29
Speaker 3: in your brain, so you will have to try to emulate.
42:33
Speaker 3: You Just do your own shit, and that's where everything
42:37
Speaker 3: will come together. I'm super hopeful and super charged about
42:41
Speaker 3: the new era, and I must tell you before we
42:44
Speaker 3: end that I just made a film about them called Dishlife,
42:49
Speaker 3: which is a film about the new age micro influences,
42:55
Speaker 3: the lowest of the low, the guy at the edge
42:58
Speaker 3: of civilization. You know, yes, nothing but just that fucking phone,
43:04
Speaker 3: and then taking those videos and finding life through that,
43:09
Speaker 3: you know, and finding the world through that and what
43:12
Speaker 3: they have to encounter. The film is about that. The soundtrack,
43:16
Speaker 3: of course, I'm going back to music. It is the
43:19
Speaker 3: spine of the film is the soundtrack. Which is done
43:22
Speaker 3: by my new band that Bayan Juna and most importantly
43:26
Speaker 3: the first and the most craziest, uh you know label
43:32
Speaker 3: of India, Gully Gang, who are the you know, number
43:36
Speaker 3: one hip hop label. Now they've diversified him into everything.
43:40
Speaker 3: Then they picked it up and now we're working together
43:44
Speaker 3: to bring this to the wing or the youth, you know.
43:47
Speaker 3: So I am super kicked. I think that we we
43:51
Speaker 3: will reach the furthest kids in Bengal and be able
43:55
Speaker 3: to inspire them to do their own thing.
43:58
Speaker 5: Wow, you know, gotshak. I have asked this question, I
44:03
Speaker 5: don't know to how many people, and nobody has ever
44:06
Speaker 5: said to me I would ask them for their advice.
44:10
Speaker 5: That's really interesting. When I said to you, you know,
44:12
Speaker 5: what would you say to that young child or young
44:16
Speaker 5: individual in Calcutta and everybody else you know has great advice,
44:20
Speaker 5: amazing advice and it's and it makes you stop. But
44:23
Speaker 5: nobody has ever said to me that I would stop
44:25
Speaker 5: and listen to them. Brothers.
44:27
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, they are the ones who Now.
44:34
Speaker 5: I can't agree more. I can't agree more. It's phenomenal
44:37
Speaker 5: how they look at the world and it's through a
44:39
Speaker 5: different less than we did. Literally, and so to your point.
44:44
Speaker 5: First of all, thank you very much for sharing that
44:46
Speaker 5: film and your new project there. That sounds very exciting
44:49
Speaker 5: and something very h apropos for the time, given how
44:56
Speaker 5: people don't necessarily look at the influencer in that type
44:59
Speaker 5: of way that they are the ultimate entrepreneur in my eyes.
45:03
Speaker 5: You know, they taking very very simple ingredients and they've
45:08
Speaker 5: turned it into revenue, if nothing, commodity and a weapon.
45:15
Speaker 3: A commodity and weapon at the same time.
45:18
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's that's insane.
45:21
Speaker 3: You know, that's insane, and they're turning him. And I've
45:24
Speaker 3: always believed, you know, I, as I told you, I
45:27
Speaker 3: come from this being always saltious and your intellectual filmmaker,
45:33
Speaker 3: art filmmaker. We have a history of parallel cinema, all
45:37
Speaker 3: that shit. But now everything is a joke. You know,
45:40
Speaker 3: everything is joke, and that I think is the main
45:44
Speaker 3: lesson that we need to take and I am taking
45:47
Speaker 3: it very very seriously. This joke. If I want to
45:52
Speaker 3: really live by that, every minute of your life.
45:54
Speaker 5: Should be a joke. You c awesome talking to you today, brother,
45:59
Speaker 5: really really nice talk to you. Thank you so much
46:01
Speaker 5: for sharing your story with us and your insight and
46:04
Speaker 5: your perspective. Brother, thanks for joining us here on the bridge.
46:08
Speaker 3: Thank you, Sami. It was great, It was great. Thank
46:11
Speaker 3: you for having me on the bridge and to you later.
46:14
Speaker 3: We will be seeing you shortly.
46:15
Speaker 5: All right, guys, that's cute and we'll be right back
46:18
Speaker 5: and talk about you after this.
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Speaker 14: Y'all not John Ship.
48:58
Speaker 1: You move on.
49:14
Speaker 5: Really enjoyed that conversation with c Big shout out to
49:18
Speaker 5: him for joining us today. You learn so much about
49:22
Speaker 5: people's specific journeys when you go into this little window
49:26
Speaker 5: of research that you have to when you interview somebody.
49:29
Speaker 5: And so when I get a chance to have somebody
49:31
Speaker 5: in front of me that I'm going to learn about,
49:33
Speaker 5: it's you you get to It's a rabbit hole. There's
49:37
Speaker 5: so much about their story. I'm so proud of where
49:39
Speaker 5: Q has come. Really. Now let's bring Indita to the show.
49:43
Speaker 2: Hi.
49:43
Speaker 12: Everyone, this is your Rokasavni radio music correspondent back with
49:48
Speaker 12: another artist spotlight. Let's spotlight Aditya Ricardi, the Dalli born
49:52
Speaker 12: Indie singer songwriter who's emotionally raw music has made him
49:55
Speaker 12: one of the most fastest rising voices in Indian pop today.
49:59
Speaker 12: Known for her artfil hits like Fastly, Samjona Barrow and
50:03
Speaker 12: the viral sensation Saheba, Aditya has built a massive fan
50:07
Speaker 12: base so deeply personal lyrics and minimalist melodies that connects
50:10
Speaker 12: strongly with gen Z listeners. Twenty twenty six is already
50:14
Speaker 12: shaping up to be a huge year for him. Earlier
50:16
Speaker 12: this year, Aditya collaborated with Kudli Khan and Ravator on
50:20
Speaker 12: the Koch Studio power track ah Nabi, a soulful fusion
50:24
Speaker 12: record that quickly gained major traction online and across streaming platforms.
50:29
Speaker 12: He's also continued his streak of releases with songs like
50:32
Speaker 12: Promise and Lajawa, while expanding further into Bollywood with tracks
50:36
Speaker 12: for upcoming films including Dukoit and Pattipatni or Vodo. Fans
50:40
Speaker 12: and critics alike have praise his ability to turn vulnerability
50:43
Speaker 12: into music that feels deeply personal yet universally relatable, with
50:47
Speaker 12: many calling him one of the defining voices of India's
50:51
Speaker 12: indie wave.
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Speaker 1: With billions of.
50:53
Speaker 12: Streams, sold out live shows, and a sound that feels
50:55
Speaker 12: intimate yet cinematic all at once, Aditya Ricari continues proving
51:00
Speaker 12: that indie music in India has never sounded more honest
51:03
Speaker 12: or more powerful. Oh that's all for me, Stay tuned
51:07
Speaker 12: for more only on Ruckus Avenue Radio.
51:09
Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of Aditiars. He has been around
51:12
Speaker 5: the business for quite a while and has been dropping
51:15
Speaker 5: these singles that you probably may or may not know
51:18
Speaker 5: it's him, but it's it's him, Like this song right here.
51:22
Speaker 5: This song is called Saiba, one of the top songs
51:25
Speaker 5: from what I think it was like twenty twenty four,
51:27
Speaker 5: and it's become etched in out there. Here's a dea.
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Speaker 34: Rikari Sahiba i hea sadana de conte jena sahiba indie
51:43
Speaker 34: ayena ra de cardijaina, ladin re nata so he lo
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Speaker 34: samander radio amata de jana dida dorega you here camrag.
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Speaker 1: Sorry bato regae.
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Speaker 35: He made to day dab show jar abajo him and Americans?
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Speaker 7: town man, sabka so rado some balloon and head to
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Speaker 7: Kasi ballah shah Givo sang Joe Dale, the luco Cooi
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Speaker 1: Ramana a long hongko.
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Speaker 7: Havin badality, the luco Cooi hi Diri co in j
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Speaker 7: hal ty saiba to him, and Hina told me, have
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Speaker 7: you made it? Hai nasy? But so he runs?
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Speaker 21: Did run?
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Speaker 15: Right?
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Speaker 5: Did they recry everybody? He's had a bunch of songs
54:24
Speaker 5: that have reached the top spot here on the bridge.
54:27
Speaker 5: I think two of them if I can count correctly,
54:29
Speaker 5: And this song easily could have been up there too.
54:32
Speaker 12: You know.
54:35
Speaker 5: This song right here is by raps of Para.
54:37
Speaker 1: The song is canned.
54:38
Speaker 5: Step out stand by for some closing remarks.
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Speaker 13: laja here today on the Maganie said you're the dony.
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Speaker 13: Maganie said you didn't know any any miss him because
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Speaker 2: Me I took her.
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Speaker 1: Okay to the art.
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Speaker 1: O get to the art. We'll get you. I got
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Speaker 1: the Holocordy portal.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love this break down at the end here
57:17
Speaker 5: it's cool. Raps a pair everybody. I wanna give a
57:20
Speaker 5: big shout out to Q for joining us today in
57:24
Speaker 5: thirty years in this business. And I'll tell you, artist,
57:26
Speaker 5: I trust most, not the ones who make comfortable things,
57:31
Speaker 5: the ones who tell you exactly who they are and
57:34
Speaker 5: pay whatever it costs. Q sat with me today, Kaushik Mukherjee,
57:39
Speaker 5: And for all the noise around his name, here's who
57:42
Speaker 5: he told me he actually is. He's a failed musician
57:45
Speaker 5: who found another instrument. Sit with that because it reorders everything.
57:52
Speaker 5: The man they call India's most dangerous filmmaker is not
57:56
Speaker 5: dangerous at all. He's a musician making album out of light.
58:01
Speaker 5: Gandhu the film that got him branded for life was
58:05
Speaker 5: a rap musical Black and White, running on hip hop's grammar,
58:09
Speaker 5: made fifteen years before the mainland rap wave that lives
58:13
Speaker 5: on this show's countdown every week. Brub Deep right now
58:16
Speaker 5: is at number five, to Evil right Now is at
58:18
Speaker 5: number three on my countdown show. Think about that. Two
58:21
Speaker 5: my top five songs are hip hop songs, and that
58:24
Speaker 5: lineage has an ancestor. And of course there's so many
58:28
Speaker 5: names you can tie into it, but one of those
58:30
Speaker 5: is cute. Nobody hands him that credit tonight on this show,
58:35
Speaker 5: we do. And his road tells a story my audience
58:39
Speaker 5: knows in its bones. Yale Premiere, Best Film in New York,
58:44
Speaker 5: Sun Dance, Berlin, and two full years before his own country,
58:49
Speaker 5: let his own film be seen, celebrated abroad, censored at home.
58:55
Speaker 5: That's not just an artist scandal. That's the oldest diaspora
58:59
Speaker 5: story there is, and he lived it without leaving Calcutta.
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Speaker 5: Here's the truth I walked away with today. Bengal's cannon
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Speaker 5: to Gore Ray all that respectability survives because of artists
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Speaker 5: like Q, not despite them. He took to Gore's own
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Speaker 5: work and made it psychedelic and I'd call that love
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Speaker 5: the deepest kind, the kind that refuses to let the
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Speaker 5: culture fossilize into a museum place to gore scandalize his
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Speaker 5: establishment too. Q is not the Canon's vandal, he's its air.
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Speaker 5: Go find his films tonight, start anywhere. Let them make
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Speaker 5: you uncomfortable. That discomfort is the medicine, and it was
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Speaker 5: always the point. And give the man his flowers while
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Speaker 5: he can still smell them. All right, I'll leave you
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Speaker 5: with Tesher. Let's see you tomorrow. Face