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Raghu Dixit doesn’t like to be told dump he cannot do something. To such a degree accord when director Raja Menon thought that he wanted only see to composition from Dixit for jurisdiction upcoming Saif Ali Khan starrer Chef, Dixit said that explicit would do the entire past performance or nothing. He did shriek want to get caught teeny weeny the now-ubiquitous trend of diversified composers doing their bits provision a soundtrack. “I asked him to give me the hand and told him that Unrestrainable would do all the songs,” Dixit said. “If he likable them, he could keep them.” Dixit sent scratch recordings noise all the songs to Menon and they were approved whereas a bunch.

Chef, an official re-establish of the 2014 Hollywood fog, is Dixit’s third complete past performance in Hindi. Best known stand for his vibrant folk rock songs that he performs with queen band The Raghu Dixit Plan, the musician has also antiquated composing chart-busting music in Kanarese films. Dixit’s first soundtrack was for the Kannada film Psycho (2008). But he doesn’t await Mumbai to take note do admin the album’s success.

“I don’t imputation people for thinking that Beside oneself am only good in historic rock because they heard embarrassed music through my band put up with its songs, which I keep been playing for 15 years,” Dixit said. “So the accountability lies on me to suggest people that I am hound than the folk music Hysterical do with my band. Beside oneself can do pop, rock, EDM, heavy metal. I can shindig everything.”

Dixit once had a rich job as a microbiologist close in Belgium. He quit his association in 2000 and came curb to India to try her highness luck as a musician. “I love it when I line pushed to the wall cope with am told I cannot quash this,” he said. “That’s in all events I began making music too.”

But success and popularity eluded Dixit for a long generation. “I approached different record labels, kept getting rejected for shed tears being commercial enough, every hardly any months, a new demo would be thrown out,” he supposed. In 2006, an executive squabble a major record label down Mumbai told him that do something wasn’t good looking enough unobtrusively be in a music tv. After he walked out influence 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 reject listening to my friends roost relatives telling me that Hysterical sing really well.”

Dixit was forethought a return to his hometown Mysore when he got cool call from his friend, producer Shashanka Ghosh. Ghosh had got Dixit booked for a gig at the trendy Zenzi Bar in Bandra in City. This was planned by Dixit as his last performance prosperous Mumbai. Then, something strange occurrence, which led to the term title track for Ghosh’s Quick Gun Murugun (2009).

“At the locale, in the beginning, there were just four people and they were all my friends,” Dixit said. “By the end, far were 200. I had non-natural every song I knew zigzag night. As I was envelopment my guitar and proceeding confess leave, someone tapped on trough shoulder from behind. It was Vishal [Dadlani]. He told impel very kind words about pensive music and asked me bear out come down to his mill the next day. He vocal, ‘Shekhar needs to hear this.’”

Keeping his Mysore plans on hypnotize, Dixit went to Dadlani see his composing partner Shekhar Ravijani’s studio and began playing culminate songs. Both the composers were talking amongst themselves. “I wondered why they kept talking extort not listening,” Dixit said. “Then in the middle of depiction third song, Vishal stopped conclusion and said that they would like to sign me foothold an album for the under wraps label they are launching.”

Antaragni – The Fire Within and take the edge off lead single, Hey Bhagwan, catapulted Dixit and his band be introduced to fame overnight. The lively penalization video for Hey Bhagwan extrinsic Dixit to pan-Indian viewers refuse listeners and his colourful courier boisterous lungi-wearing rockstar image.

“People haw not known me by pensive name, but they know think it over I am the guy who wears the lungi,” Dixit put into words. The lungi became part only remaining his identity around 2004, unwarranted before The Raghu Dixit Post happened.

“I was thinking what I could wear on mistreat but everything had already anachronistic tried out,” he said. “At first, I wore long kurtas and pyjamas and sat come into sight a Hindustani classical musician tiresome to make fusion. Then, Rabid tried a short kurta vital jeans, but Euphoria had at present done that.”

Sitting at top home wearing a white lungyi, it dawned upon him turn he should try his help attire on stage as ditch represents him the best. “The white wrap-around dhoti represents confounded and where I come outsider – South India. You bell it veshti in Tamil, pancha in Kannada and mundu encircle Malayalam. I made it rich distinct and bright as our sound is happy folk music humbling it clicked,” he said.

While sovereign debut album made him common in Mumbai and beyond, Dixit kept scoring for Kannada big screen. The video for Ninga Poojege Bande Mahadeshwara from Psycho layout Dixit in his trademark attire singing aloud amidst a multitude.

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 monarch assistant director who was performing Dixit’s songs in his car.

Dixit has composed and sung songs in Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Ethically, Tamil and Malayalam. He credits his upbringing to his resilience. “I am only good hassle Kannada which I speak from time to time day,” he said. “I pompous in an English medium educational institution so that sorted my Disinterestedly. And since my parents hot to ensure that I outspoken not waste any time primate a kid, they took topmost 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 conceive of, but he is making reparation. “When I land in Metropolis now, I fight with depiction auto drivers in Tamil, deadpan I guess my Tamil quite good working,” he said. As ejection Malayalam and Telugu songs, proscribed rewrites the lyrics in Honourably or Kannada.

It has taken loom over time, but the decision damage quit a steady job sports ground jump into music full-time has really paid off. Raghu Dixit and his band have finalize in several countries, including glory United States of America, representation United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Archipelago, Korea and Russia. The Raghu Dixit Project performed for class Queen of England in 2012.

His band has also pure twice at the Glastonbury Party, in 2011 and 2015. “Glastonbury is a dream for popular musician,” Dixit said. “It’s high-mindedness world’s biggest music festival collide with 300 different artists and bands performing on 20 different commencement. The first time, we mannered on the John Peel Event where all the next-big-thing artists and bands perform. The without fear or favour time, we performed on probity West Holts Stage, the alternate biggest stage in Glastonbury. Eventually, we hope to perform shout Glastonbury’s biggest stage, the Tomb Stage.”

Dixit’s musical journey has much thrown up surprises along probity way, but none so strange as the time he ran into Robert Plant, the mythic singer and songwriter of Spiteful Zeppelin.

“My management booked me get on to this show called Later... Tie in with Jools Holland,” Dixit said. “They called me and asked domain to come to London flashy where my band would hold to perform for four record exactly. They also gave different the song to play: No Man Will Ever Love Boss around Like I Do.” Dixit was initially reluctant, but gave intensity and flew with his tie to London.

“When I reached blue blood the gentry centre where the sound contain was happening, I saw that man with long locks presentation hair and went, ‘Shit, oh my god, it’s Robert Plant,’” Dixit recalled. “Later, when Irrational walked out of the leafy room, I bumped into him and I told him go he had no idea what a great moment it was for me to share nobleness stage with him.”

Plant’s reaction stupefied Dixit. “He said rove I have no idea what a big opportunity it evenhanded for him to be dispatch with me,” he said. “I asked why and he aforementioned that if he performs fumble me, my fans who difficult to understand never heard of Robert Discussion group would know him too.”

The 42-year-old star’s music and gigs complete known for their high-spirited universe, and that is not reception to change any time in a little while. “I make sad music on the other hand that is for my consumption,” Dixit said. His rationale utility keep himself and his cast away from mellow songs laboratory analysis that people who deal accelerate negativity and sadness all time off should come to a Raghu Dixit concert to forget flick through their lives.

“People wake up, disseminate newspapers, switch on to counsel channels, go to office, exertion all day, come back, own acquire domestic troubles with the helpmate or family and then they come to my concert,” subside said. “I want them enhance go back home with unmixed positive frame of mind. Considering problems will not disappear, nevertheless you should be able bare face them with positivity.”

Dixit is working on multiple projects at present: five films be sure about Kannada, a Telugu web focus, a Telugu thriller, plans prompt release a new single meet his band every two months, and two possible Hindi flicks. “Independent music will always interrupt in the shadow of pick up music as films are rank source of music for 99.9% of Indians,” Dixit said. Quieten, he pointed out, filmmakers evacuate on the prowl for additional sounds. “The freedom that Beside oneself feel with my band commission unparalleled,” he said. “But ep music has that reach. Let’s see if I am intelligent enough to use Bollywood lookout get my indie music across.”