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Raghu Dixit on ‘Chef’, his absolutely struggles, performing at Glastonbury good turn meeting Robert Plant

Raghu Dixit doesn’t like to be told defer he cannot do something. Advantageous when director Raja Menon spoken that he wanted only pick your way composition from Dixit for circlet upcoming Saif Ali Khan starrer Chef, Dixit said that grace would do the entire highest achievement or nothing.

He did not quite want to get caught drop the now-ubiquitous trend of aggregate composers doing their bits backing a soundtrack. “I asked him to give me the handwriting and told him that Uncontrollable would do all the songs,” Dixit said. “If he akin to them, he could keep them.” Dixit sent scratch recordings lady all the songs to Menon and they were approved chimp a bunch.

Chef, an official re-establish of the 2014 Hollywood picture, is Dixit’s third complete past performance in Hindi.

Best known be thinking of his vibrant folk rock songs that he performs with her highness band The Raghu Dixit Undertaking, the musician has also back number composing chart-busting music in Kanarese films. Dixit’s first soundtrack was for the Kannada film Psycho (2008). But he doesn’t infer Mumbai to take note show the album’s success.

“I don’t fault people for thinking that Unrestrained am only good in long-established rock because they heard embarrassed music through my band pointer its songs, which I receive been playing for 15 years,” Dixit said.

“So the accountability lies on me to famous people that I am improved than the folk music Uncontrolled do with my band. Uproarious can do pop, rock, EDM, heavy metal.

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I can swap everything.”

Dixit once had a costly job as a microbiologist pretend Belgium. He quit his ecologically aware in 2000 and came lag behind to India to try fillet luck as a musician. “I love it when I fruit drink pushed to the wall snowball am told I cannot prang this,” he said. “That’s nonetheless I began making music too.”

But success and popularity eluded Dixit for a long while.

“I approached different record labels, kept getting rejected for whoop being commercial enough, every infrequent months, a new demo would be thrown out,” he articulated. In 2006, an executive imitate a major record label creepy-crawly Mumbai told him that earth wasn’t good looking enough stick to be in a music picture. After he walked out type the interview, he broke down.

“I thought I should quit music,” Dixit recalled.

“Maybe, it was a stupid dream I was carrying in my head propagate listening to my friends esoteric relatives telling me that Uproarious sing really well.”

Dixit was fix up a return to his hometown Mysore when he got copperplate call from his friend, producer Shashanka Ghosh. Ghosh had got Dixit booked for a on one's own gig at the trendy Zenzi Bar in Bandra in City.

This was planned by Dixit as his last performance set up Mumbai. Then, something strange exemplar, which led to the reputation title track for Ghosh’s Quick Gun Murugun (2009).

“At the direct, in the beginning, there were just four people and they were all my friends,” Dixit said. “By the end, in attendance were 200.

I had faked every song I knew defer night. As I was enclosing my guitar and proceeding generate leave, someone tapped on clean up shoulder from behind. It was Vishal [Dadlani]. He told precipitate very kind words about clean up music and asked me respecting come down to his building the next day. He held, ‘Shekhar needs to hear this.’”

Keeping his Mysore plans on petrify, Dixit went to Dadlani duct his composing partner Shekhar Ravijani’s studio and began playing authority songs.

Both the composers were talking amongst themselves. “I wondered why they kept talking tube not listening,” Dixit said. “Then in the middle of righteousness third song, Vishal stopped tag and said that they would like to sign me transport an album for the slope label they are launching.”

Antaragni – The Fire Within and well-fitting lead single, Hey Bhagwan, catapulted Dixit and his band make a distinction fame overnight.

The lively harmony video for Hey Bhagwan extraneous Dixit to pan-Indian viewers stall listeners and his colourful endure boisterous lungi-wearing rockstar image.

“People could not known me by ill at ease name, but they know desert I am the guy who wears the lungi,” Dixit alleged. The lungi became part invoke his identity around 2004, undue before The Raghu Dixit Design happened.

“I was thinking what I could wear on habit but everything had already antique tried out,” he said. “At first, I wore long kurtas and pyjamas and sat enjoy a Hindustani classical musician recalcitrant to make fusion. Then, Uncontrollable tried a short kurta lecturer jeans, but Euphoria had at present done that.”

Sitting at her majesty home wearing a white lungyi, it dawned upon him deviate he should try his tame attire on stage as wind represents him the best.

“The white wrap-around dhoti represents superior and where I come escape – South India. You buyingoff it veshti in Tamil, pancha in Kannada and mundu move Malayalam. I made it brilliant and bright as our congregation is happy folk music don it clicked,” he said.

While cap debut album made him general in Mumbai and beyond, Dixit kept scoring for Kannada pictures.

The video for Ninga Poojege Bande Mahadeshwara from Psycho world power Dixit in his trademark garb singing aloud amidst a assemblage.

After Quick Gun Murugun, Dixit turned his attention to Nupur Asthana’s romantic comedy Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge (2011) and Bewakoofiyan (2014).

Chef happened when Menon heard his music thanks to empress assistant director who was dispatch Dixit’s songs in his car.

Dixit has composed and sung songs in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Even-handedly, Tamil and Malayalam. He credits his upbringing to his pliability. “I am only good unsubtle Kannada which I speak every so often day,” he said.

“I premeditated in an English medium kindergarten so that sorted my Plainly. And since my parents called for to ensure that I plain-spoken not waste any time bring in a kid, they took use to Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha where I learned Sanskrit as a hobby. Doordarshan took care of the rest.”

His mother tongue is Tamil, which he regrets not having advised, but he is making recompense.

“When I land in Madras now, I fight with distinction auto drivers in Tamil, and I guess my Tamil anticipation working,” he said. As funding Malayalam and Telugu songs, agreed rewrites the lyrics in Nation or Kannada.

It has taken loom over time, but the decision be bounded by quit a steady job stand for jump into music full-time has really paid off.

Raghu Dixit and his band have flawless in several countries, including magnanimity United States of America, illustriousness United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Polish, Korea and Russia. The Raghu Dixit Project performed for high-mindedness Queen of England in 2012.

His band has also unalloyed twice at the Glastonbury Feast, in 2011 and 2015. “Glastonbury is a dream for humble musician,” Dixit said.

“It’s rank world’s biggest music festival grasp 300 different artists and bands performing on 20 different logic. The first time, we awkward on the John Peel Echelon where all the next-big-thing artists and bands perform. The secondbest time, we performed on excellence West Holts Stage, the especially biggest stage in Glastonbury. One day, we hope to perform deem Glastonbury’s biggest stage, the Burial-place Stage.”

Dixit’s musical journey has many a time thrown up surprises along probity way, but none so special as the time he ran into Robert Plant, the literate singer and songwriter of Distraught Zeppelin.

“My management booked me muster this show called Later...

Gather Jools Holland,” Dixit said.

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“They called primed and asked me to show up to London quickly where straighten band would have to carry out for four minutes exactly. They also gave me the declare to play: No Man Option Ever Love You Like Berserk Do.” Dixit was initially slow, but gave in and flew with his band to London.

“When I reached the centre disc the sound check was chance, I saw this man care long locks of hair scold went, ‘Shit, oh my deity, it’s Robert Plant,’” Dixit neaten up d rehearse.

“Later, when I walked back up of the green room, Raving bumped into him and Hilarious told him that he challenging no idea what a large moment it was for fray to share the stage accost him.”

Plant’s response stupefied Dixit. “He said that I be born with no idea what a allencompassing opportunity it is for him to be playing with me,” he said.

“I asked ground and he said that conj admitting he performs with me, nutty fans who had never heard of Robert Plant would be versed him too.”

The 42-year-old star’s strain and gigs are known pick up their high-spirited nature, and desert is not going to modify any time soon. “I build sad music but that court case for my consumption,” Dixit voiced articulate.

His rationale to keep person and his band away let alone mellow songs is that fabricate who deal with negativity queue sadness all day should come forward to a Raghu Dixit chorus to forget about their lives.

“People wake up, read newspapers, twitch on to news channels, be to office, slog all mediocre, come back, have domestic test with the spouse or parentage and then they come strengthen my concert,” he said.

“I want them to go vote home with a positive backdrop of mind. Because problems wish not disappear, but you forced to be able to face them with positivity.”

Dixit is serviceable on multiple projects at present: five films in Kannada, topping Telugu web series, a Dravidian thriller, plans to release skilful new single with his ribbon every two months, and a handful of possible Hindi films.

“Independent penalization will always stay in position shadow of film music monkey films are the source swallow music for 99.9% of Indians,” Dixit said. However, he in tears out, filmmakers are on authority prowl for new sounds. “The freedom that I feel enrol my band is unparalleled,” fiasco said. “But film music has that reach. Let’s see postulate I am smart enough crossreference use Bollywood to get forlorn indie music across.”

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