ORIGINAL TUNES

STRINGS ATTACHED (Top and bottom) Abhilash Gupta In pursuit of good music usic goes beyond words sic and practice will take you with the who’s who of the mu- M and it takes a lifetime to higher and yield better re- sic industry. perfect it. sults. “It was a privilege to share Abhilash Gupta, a trained “I have learnt a lot from stage with Bollywood artistes Hindustani musician and gui- my gurus, there is constant like Zubeen Garg, Nikhil D’- tarist, who has been perform- feedback and constructive Souza and Kunal Ganjawala.” ing on many stages, believes criticism which has Abhilash has also worked in it completely and says that encouraged me to do better with music directors like there is no end to learning it. in music.” Mano Murthy, Ramana “There are many genres of Abhilash, who was a stu- Gogula and Arjun Janya of music and each genre is dent of RV College of Engi- the Kannada film industry. unique in itself. But one neering, says his passion has Abhilash is also a song- should never be bound by any always been music and ‘now writer and has produced genre but learn from differ- there’s no looking back’. short music shows. ent kinds of music to create He has performed at vari- He started a music produc- something new and authen- ous events in and around the tion house called ‘Salt 'N Pep- tic.” City, a prominent one being per’ with his friend Nobin Abhilash is being trained by the first edition of ‘Alive India Paul with the promise of orig- playback singer Manjula Gu- in Concert’ organised by the inal music. ruraj. band ‘Aurko’. where he sang The music house designs Most of his time is dedicat- film score, radio and TV jin- ed to making music. Abhilash gles, signature tunes, an- releases his songs on I have learnt a lot thems etc. Their forte is YouTube and it has garnered sound branding, that is de- thousands of likes. “from my gurus, there signing sound or music ‘Dosti Mein Pyar’ is his offi- is constant feedback strategies for brands for ef- cial single video. The song and constructive criti- fective communication of the talks about how friendship is brand message. the first stage of love. ‘Jashn Bina’ from ‘Guru’. cism which has encour- Abhilash has written jingles Ka’ is another song by Abhi- Abhilash’s music is fresh aged me to do better and theme songs in Hindi, lash and sung with Sinchan and indigenous. English, Kannada and Tel- Dixit. He feels that no matter in music. ugu, and has been a voice- Besides this, he has done how popular you are, train- ABHILASH” GUPTA over artiste as well. covers of songs like ‘Tera ing in a certain form of mu- Preethi Ravi