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Leaving Home - Movie Screening |
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Leaving Home - The Life and Music of Indian Ocean:
This is a full length documentary feature on the most significant music band from India. Based in Delhi, this band has been around for 19 years doing pathbreaking, timeless work outside the mainstream, quietly, with great integrity.
Indian Ocean's music has admirers ranging from Yo Yo Ma to Shubha Mudgal to Rabbi Shergill to Anthony DeCurtis, from the youth in colleges around India to the middle-aged NRI in corporate America. Using primarily Western instruments (acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums, tabla), they have created a very Indian sound which is strangely also uniquely their own. The band has created less than 30 songs during this time, with not a single filler, and more than half of these are bonafide classics.
Leaving Home is the story of the four men who make music together as Indian Ocean in a contemporary India where commercial concerns are overriding. Their inspirational story of how they kept the creative fires burning without compromising their essential vision is told with the same energy and lightness of touch their unique music is imbued with. Their music is showcased in three different ways - in concert with all their stage finery, a casual performance in their own neighbourhood, and raw improvisations from inside their rehearsal room.
This feature-length film captures their unique sensibility for the first time ever, both onstage and off-stage. It showcases their music in such a way that their unique sound is internalized by the viewer by the end of the film.
There can be a hundred reasons to do something but in our entertainment environment just one reason to not do it assumes precedence over all those 100 reasons.
"There is just no place to show this." 150 channels on television but not sure where this fits in. Scores of multiplex screens all around India but not sure if even one can be spared to accommodate this. That's what the recurrent theme was when the rounds of producers?/ distributors' offices began. We were laughed out of the room most times?once or twice, quite literally.
This film could not make it to a release in Bangalore. We wish to ensure still that the Bangalore audiences are not denied the experience of this film on the band that a large population in the city love and admire. To go deeper into the story of the film, the band and all those involved in this inspiring struggle, we also plan on inviting director Jaideep Varma and also Susmit sen, the founding member of Indian Ocean.
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Directed by: Jaideep Varma |
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