00:00First of all, Vrindam and Mamet sir, welcome to INS.
00:06First of all, sir, you should go to the Manganian tradition of Bollywood and international studies.
00:13What do you think about folk music and popular?
00:16How much was it needed and how much was it in its authenticity?
00:22Look, there are two things. You should keep the authenticity, but of course, the originality of folk music is changing.
00:32So, there are two things. You need to change.
00:34Because today's world's audience has changed.
00:39So, you have to keep the authenticity of folk music while changing.
00:44That will work.
00:46And it's really going great.
00:51When I talk about shafar, I would say that my music is still.
00:59Vrindam, how do you say that in Mumbai, like urban city, folk artists,
01:03how much is it important to the stage?
01:06I think it's very important.
01:09The stage has become prestigious.
01:12And we are doing this festival for many years.
01:16Twenty-seven years.
01:18Twenty-seven is a long time.
01:20Wow.
01:20And we are now famous.
01:24And many people need a platform.
01:28So, they approach us.
01:31And we are now in this position that we can choose.
01:34We can choose who we need.
01:37It's about the curation.
01:38We could do it in the past time.
01:41Because we have to ask the people to do it.
01:45Please perform for us.
01:48And you won't recognize that many of them have become famous.
01:53Like Kavita Seth and Chilpa Rao.
01:58All these people came in Kala Ghoda and they have become so famous and I am so proud of it.
02:08Ma'am, what do you think that in mainstream cultural festivals folk
02:11have the recognition of classic or contemporary art films?
02:16I think folk music has become very popular and it's a very good thing thanks to people like him who
02:26popularized it, modernized it.
02:28Made it popular in the sense, it's a combination of showmanship, it's a combination of promotion, it's a combination of
02:37the right people singing.
02:40And it's very good that actually everyone appreciates every type of music.
02:46Now people are appreciating, which was considered traditional and classical.
02:55Now you will see that many classical music have become very big.
03:00And you know they have just come up.
03:04It's not before.
03:05There is no popularity in the background.
03:08It has changed.
03:09This is exactly what your question is.
03:11It was like men and folk music.
03:16Now classic music has come up.
03:18which is like,
03:20But your identity of originality as she is being with us.
03:23She's changing something,
03:23and you are immediately changing to us because of the way
03:24they are especially in the future.
03:24And it's very very important to what people have come up.
03:27What do you believe in the roots,
03:28also in the roots,
03:30and the roots of your work is good.
03:32And you are doing well.
03:36Everyone in the audience is not very low.
03:47If you look at social media, I think there are young people who are following me.
03:55But yeah, of course…
03:56In Kalagoda, we have a very young audience.
03:59First, we were very big.
04:02You don't see that. You see only young audience.
04:04I would like to say one thing.
04:07You used to say folk art, dying art.
04:13But it's not like that.
04:16The real team is not like that.
04:18The future is very bright.
04:20People are very appreciate and listening to it.
04:23Youth, especially youth.
04:26When you hear that Kalagoda has given a common platform for different art forms,
04:30what is the most important thing about artistic, authenticity, audience, and contemporary presentation?
04:40Actually, audience is very important.
04:42So, for me, there should be audience connection.
04:45And luckily, I think that Mumbai is such a place.
04:49Audience is very good.
04:51And people are very good.
04:53It's the best audience in terms of well-behaved.
04:57There isn't any incident.
04:59As a festival director, I have to see to the safety of the festival.
05:02I see.
05:03Many people ask us if something happened, then what will you do?
05:07I don't think so much about this.
05:09Because I think Mumbai is a great, great city.
05:13And the rest of us can happen.
05:16It just happens.
05:17And contemporizing it, we have to do everything.
05:21Change is very important.
05:22So, every year, people ask us, what is new in Kalagoda?
05:26What is new in Kalagoda?
05:27So, it's new to be new.
05:29And we don't repeat anything.
05:32And if it can happen, it doesn't repeat.
05:35And I think it's really a big change over the years.
05:40It's been great.
05:41Quality has been great.
05:44That you have been a big change
05:45I think it's a little bit
05:47In Mumbai to present in Mumbai,
05:49or is it what the thought process was going to be
05:50and do you think that
05:51the traditional folk and urban audience
05:54in the country can create a strong bridge?
05:58Certainly.
05:58I think that we have approached them because we wanted to do a different presentation.
06:07That's why we are doing this concert.
06:10You don't know, but we connected on Instagram.
06:14Last time, they had a performance in Kalagoda.
06:18We really enjoyed it and the crowd really enjoyed it.
06:21And when we realized how popular Mamei Khan is,
06:27I will say Kalagoda is not just an event.
06:30This is a living, breathing of open culture.
06:33There are many art platforms from dance to theatre to performance.
06:41This festival is very highly, very important.
06:45And this festival.
06:47To connect to folk music to our audience.
06:52This is a very important festival.
06:55Mamei, you don't think that folk music has a renewed interest.
06:59Is it a genuine return to roots?
07:02Or is it a fashionable event for urban audience?
07:06No, this festival is not just a hard work.
07:09We have been doing a lot of years,
07:11but now we get a result of growth.
07:14We have been growing up in the world.
07:17We have been growing up with the roots.
07:18And we were growing up with the roots.
07:19The roots are growing up with the roots.
07:21So, people feel good.
07:23They feel sweet, smooth and smooth.
07:26I am talking about folk music.
07:30The music and folk music are being developed.
07:34What kind of value is different?
07:38AI or?
07:39Technology.
07:41It's a good thing. It's good.
07:43It's good.
07:45But, you know, the show that you say,
07:50you'll probably get it in the future.
07:54But, of course, if this technology is a benefit,
07:57it's really good.
07:59What?
08:04You can take a, you can show it, an AI photograph.
08:09But the photographer's photo,
08:12it's different.
08:14It's different.
08:17It's different.
08:19And sometimes, you know, you have to use both
08:22to make a good, the best work.
08:40I don't think so.
08:41So, I didn't say that folks should not be introduced to the audience.
08:46Did you say that?
08:48I mean, I mean, I mean,
08:49cultural platforms will not be introduced to the new generation of folks.
08:54Do you think traditional art forms will disappear without the audience?
09:00Because, of course, the graduates will disappear?
09:02I think it will not happen.
09:06Because, I think there will be interest in traditional art forms.
09:16and AI should not take over, traditional art forms will definitely disappear and AI should
09:24not become 90% AI and 10% art, it should be the other way around, it should be 10
09:32% AI
09:33and 90% art, it will never disappear, it will remain.
09:40Finally, September 27th, Rock and Doots, you want to promise to both of you, and your experience
09:51will be connected to the concert.
09:56Actually, I am very excited.
10:09I want to say that folk music is a family, so if you want to be a child or older,
10:21you have to live in the family.
10:24That was an answer.
10:26I am very excited.
10:29The folk tunes of Rajasthan, popular songs of my own.
10:36We are very good with my Western team.
10:42Mumbai is always giving me very good.
10:48When I play my heart, my heart will be touched.
10:53It will be a great blessing.
10:56I am looking forward to it.
10:59I am looking forward to it.
10:59I am looking forward to it.
11:01Okay.
11:02Okay.
11:05Okay.
11:07Okay.
11:09Okay.
11:36Very nice.
11:39What do you want to say about the audience that will come to the 23rd of September, what do you
11:43promise to them for them?
11:46We want to surprise the audience, and we want to be surprised, and I am sure that they will deliver.
11:54And I think the ticket sales are so good, so I am sure that the audience is really looking forward
12:01to it as we are.
12:03And we are very very excited, we are very excited.
12:05And let us see how it goes, I am sure it will go very well.
