{UAH} First they rape our innocent babies then they misinform the world about us - INDIANS, that is.
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People (for the first time) here is a stinking Indian untouchable insulting us in broad daylight. First he comes into our country then goes back to tell his curry-smoking baboon-worshipers that:
"Uganda is a country which survives solely on music; they have no TV channels or films..." Read further below and in case Museveni arrests me for slaughtering an Indian, be informed that La'Kitgum was more than pissed off with the sodomist's comment.
Interview with Varun Unni
Asha Prakash,TNN | Feb 2, 2014, 09.05 AM IST
Though a trained Carnatic musician, the music that Varun Unni has composed for his first album Vizhiye, and films like Annum Innum Ennum and Escape from Uganda are far from classical. He speaks about his journey...
The beginning...
"Classical helps you understand the basic notes. At the same time, if I had stuck to classical, I would have missed out on a whole world of music," feels the musician. He exposed himself to all genres and has been a vocalist and drummer for an alternate rock band. He also composed three albums soon after his Plus Two.
"But those albums never released. I realised that I needed to study the industry properly and learn about how things get marketed. Now, I feel I am ready to take the plunge," he says. But his classical base has been invaluable even while composing for film music with a rock flavour, he admits.
We are neither here nor there...
Despite his Carnatic background, mostly all compositions have a rock base. When quizzed about this, Varun says, "There can't be a Harimuraleeravam today as there are no longer movies which require such a song. Malayalam music is at a stage where we have moved away from the semi-classical genre but haven't found a new identity yet, like Tamil or Hindi industries. Maybe in another five years, we might form a style of our own."
And being young and upcoming doesn't help in the industry currently, admits the 24-year-old. "I don't want to take names but many a time, the producer or director might want you to do the music but at the last moment you learn that your songs have been taken off from the film at the orders of a senior musician. It happens in all fields, I guess, but it can be very demotivating."
The origin of 'Smile'
Varun and team wanted to do a song with a positive and socially relevant theme and were discussing possible ideas at a cafe in Kochi when they noticed that mostly everyone around was looking serious and listless. "No one was smiling. Then and there we knew what we wanted to do, and decided to make a video which captured natural smiles of people all by ourselves," says Varun.
It took them more than a year to put together the video, which features 'smiles' from one end of Kerala to the other. And what were the responses of the people? "Almost 95% had a ready smile for us. It amazed me, as it meant that there were smiles inside everyone, we only need to bring it out." The album has four other songs as well; one which portrays the loneliness a prisoner experiences, another with a romantic theme and yet another which has a Carnatic flavour. Shweta Mohan has lent her voice to three of the songs.
Coming up next
Next up for Varun is an African song, for which he has collaborated with an Ugandan singer, Jose Chameleon, who he met during the shoot of the film Escape from Uganda. "Uganda is a country which survives solely on music; they have no TV channels or films. And Jose is the A R Rahman of Uganda. The song called Burst will be in English and Luganda and we will be releasing it on the internet around February," he says. Varun will also be composing for the Malayalam film Gold's Own Country.
The beginning...
"Classical helps you understand the basic notes. At the same time, if I had stuck to classical, I would have missed out on a whole world of music," feels the musician. He exposed himself to all genres and has been a vocalist and drummer for an alternate rock band. He also composed three albums soon after his Plus Two.
"But those albums never released. I realised that I needed to study the industry properly and learn about how things get marketed. Now, I feel I am ready to take the plunge," he says. But his classical base has been invaluable even while composing for film music with a rock flavour, he admits.
We are neither here nor there...
Despite his Carnatic background, mostly all compositions have a rock base. When quizzed about this, Varun says, "There can't be a Harimuraleeravam today as there are no longer movies which require such a song. Malayalam music is at a stage where we have moved away from the semi-classical genre but haven't found a new identity yet, like Tamil or Hindi industries. Maybe in another five years, we might form a style of our own."
And being young and upcoming doesn't help in the industry currently, admits the 24-year-old. "I don't want to take names but many a time, the producer or director might want you to do the music but at the last moment you learn that your songs have been taken off from the film at the orders of a senior musician. It happens in all fields, I guess, but it can be very demotivating."
The origin of 'Smile'
Varun and team wanted to do a song with a positive and socially relevant theme and were discussing possible ideas at a cafe in Kochi when they noticed that mostly everyone around was looking serious and listless. "No one was smiling. Then and there we knew what we wanted to do, and decided to make a video which captured natural smiles of people all by ourselves," says Varun.
It took them more than a year to put together the video, which features 'smiles' from one end of Kerala to the other. And what were the responses of the people? "Almost 95% had a ready smile for us. It amazed me, as it meant that there were smiles inside everyone, we only need to bring it out." The album has four other songs as well; one which portrays the loneliness a prisoner experiences, another with a romantic theme and yet another which has a Carnatic flavour. Shweta Mohan has lent her voice to three of the songs.
Coming up next
Next up for Varun is an African song, for which he has collaborated with an Ugandan singer, Jose Chameleon, who he met during the shoot of the film Escape from Uganda. "Uganda is a country which survives solely on music; they have no TV channels or films. And Jose is the A R Rahman of Uganda. The song called Burst will be in English and Luganda and we will be releasing it on the internet around February," he says. Varun will also be composing for the Malayalam film Gold's Own Country.
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