Leaving home indian ocean documentary full biography
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The story of Indian Ocean
Hindustan Times | ByNikhil Taneja, Mumbai
Apr 04, 2010 04:22 PM IST
As a documentary on Indian Ocean, Leaving Home, hits theatres, the grupp members take us through the journey they’ve had over the years, and tell us how Indian Ocean came to be.
The very beginning Indian Ocean’ was officially formed in 1990, when guitarist Susmit Sen and percussionist Asheem Chakravarty decided to release an skiva of their unheard-of classically-influenced rock sound. “I stopped listening to Western music for 2-3 years, and listened only to Indian classical,” recalls Sen. “I realised a new sound was developing and inom wanted an Indian touch in my guitar.”
At a time when bands were considered ‘good’ if they played covers of English rock music well, Sen admits, it didn’t even strike him once to cater to the sound the audience would like. “People said we’d fail if we don’t stick to covers. But we knew an intrinsically Indian sound like ours had never been för att
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Documentary on Indian Ocean wins National Film Award
Leaving Home traces the journey of the band who met occasionally in a bungalow in Karol Bagh. There they jammed, fooled around, made memories and created new music. Welcome to the story of Indian Ocean.
Leaving Home – The Life and Music of Indian Ocean won the best arts and culture film at the 58th National Film Awards last week. Directed by Jaideep Verma, the film talks about the lives and careers of the band members. A big fan of the Delhi-based Indian Ocean, Jaideep wanted to do something that nobody has ever done before – commercially release an Indian non-fiction film.
The band was unaware of the Award until they received congratulatory messages from all their friends. The band’s drummer Amit Kalim was surprised, he said “We didn’t even know we were up for an award. Only when we started getting congratulatory calls and message, did we realize we had won the National Award.
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'Leaving Home' gives insight into Indian Ocean's survival
The answer to this question can be found in the film "Leaving Home."
Indeed, the answer to how India, with a similar problem, survived its six decades, might also lie in this documentary about the quintessential Indian band Indian Ocean.
How a motley group of middle-class Indians, without formal training in music, got together, jammed and created music that is different from anything anyone has heard in the world before and stood solid like a monolith despite the disappointments when hundreds of other bands came together and crumbled all around them is answered in the documentary along with other questions, about life, music, survival and India.
From the cacophony that is Delhi, Jaideep Varma's film moves to a dilapidated bungalow in Karol Bagh — once home to the soulful Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, perhaps his spirit still guides the band — and slowly into the scintillating music of Indian Ocean. A brilliant op