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Bhubaneswar, August 7: Even as most celebrated Friendship Day, Sunday, in run of the mill ways such as visiting restaurants, wearing friendship bands and partying hard, a group from the city reaffirmed their friendship with a musical twist.
This group of friends, the ‘United Misfits’ as they like to be called, has come out with a music video, ‘Yaari’, which is a celebration of their friendship. The friends — Biraj and Binay Rath (brothers), Abhijit, Sourav, Debikalyan, Smikaash, Basudev, Sandeep and Anurag — include among them doctors, engineers and IT professionals who work in different parts of the country. They have been friends from college and find time to pursue their college-days passion — music.
Biraj says he wrote the title song of the album, ‘Yaari’, in his days at Ravenshaw College. “I performed the song in college with these same friends in 2006 . Once Debikalyan had casually asked why we didn’t make a video out of the song. And this is the result,” Biraj said of how ‘Yaari’ happened.
The album has a song in Hindi titled ‘Ruk Jaa Tu O-Re Lamhe, Kahe Paglaye Bhage Jaye Re’ written by Biraj and composed by Binay. It was released on YouTube and has been receiving many hits and likes.
“Abhijit, Sourav, Debikalyan and I have sung the song jointly. We are also the actors and cinematography has been handled by Smikaash, Basudev, Sandeep and Anurag,” Biraj says about the album. Both Biraj and Binay have already had experience in creating albums and have found success with numbers such as ‘Kahuchi aji’, ‘Barnali’ and ‘Jannene’. Similarly, Sourav also has had some success with his own releases such as ‘Jane Jaan’, and ‘Saiyan’.
The title song of the album showcases the love and bonding that this motley group of friends, who “understand the tensions and frustrations of each other”, shares. The group had started working on the video for the album in June. They gathered in Cuttack and the song was recorded there. For the making of the video, the group chose Puri and Bhubaneswar.
“We are just a group of friends who like music and art. We made the songs in Hindi so that we can reach out to a bigger crowd. But we make most of our songs in Oriya. Although all of us were educated in English medium schools we did get to listen to some very good Oriya music in our childhood. But things have changed a lot in the music industry today. And we used to hope to listen to some great music in Oriya. But then we thought: Why not make the music of the kind we are looking for on our own?” Biraj said.
The group, now encouraged by the response to their song on YouTube, is planning a short film. “We are working on it and are looking for actors. The shoot will begin in October. We want to make some good Oriya short films and remake some hits of Akshya Mohanty. We also have a music video ‘Projapati’ lined up for September. It deals with childhood love,” he said.
