People’s thoughts about Indian music is very cliched or boxed. It is beautiful music but there’s so much more happening in India, which people are unaware of. If you go speak to people anywhere in the world, Indian music for them is about the sitar or Pandit Ravi Shankar and the likes. Hopefully, if I do well, and my songs do well, it’ll help the world to look at musicians from India in a different context. How do you see the collab impacting the music scene in India? Right now, the only space that exists for musicians is the independent music space, which is very small but growing.
There needs to be space for musicians and that can only happen if there is a music industry, which almost doesn’t exist in India. I wanted to put out the song the way I wanted, not in the context of a film. I reached out to my friends and my family to ask if anybody had a connection or are working in Bollywood but I realised there’s not a lot of space for what I was doing. There are a bunch of people who do that as well. You can do soundtrack music or write for films. (In the West) Music industry is separate where artists also have the freedom to make music for films if they want. There are big artists like Rihanna, Beyonce, Kanye West, Taylor Swift and others who put out their own records and have a huge fan following. There is a music industry and then there is the film industry, and sometimes they interact with each other. All over the world, the music industry is its own thing. So, it wasn’t a benchmark or a dream for you?įor me, Bollywood was never really a benchmark because philosophically I don’t relate to its framework/working style. My problem is how Bollywood is still a benchmark. So, there was a phase, which started to die down. Then even they started churning out Bollywood music. Outside Bollywood, we had Lucky Ali, Euphoria, Strings and others. Growing up, a lot of my favorite songs were from films and that was because it was the only music we had to consume, especially when it comes to Hindi music. It is also a good change because it makes it possible for the music industry to be its own thing and not just an industry that is attached to Bollywood as almost like a sidekick. There are a few others who are doing really good work in the independent scene and doing work outside of the framework of Bollywood, which I think is important. I’m just trying to grow and become a better person and a better musician, which I think is very hard.ĭo you know people tag you as one of the artists who is shifting music scenes in India? I want to grow as a writer and as a person because all of that reflects in your music and your art eventually. But most of them, I would hear a year later and think to myself, ‘Oh my god, what was I thinking!’ So that happens a lot. I believe that only after 20 or 30 songs, I started writing songs that were acceptable to me. And that’s why I never really put most of them out. Probably my first 30 songs were really bad. Is there a Prateek Kuhad song that you don’t like? I’m never going to write songs for people. Sometimes the songs that people end up loving, I don’t like them.
I don’t care about that, and I have been this way since the beginning. Was there a pressure to make music as per fans expectation? Maybe that’s why some of my music feels old.
I have a lot of romanticism (in my songs), which is not all that common today. It is the creative and greatest film of this century for me. The romanticism in it comes from the film Pyaasa. Some of the impactful stuff that I have heard is older, especially with my Hindi songwriting. Honestly, my music influences are quiet all over the place. Definitely, I have been influenced by old music.
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