The Dewarists
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The Dewarists is a musical television series on Star World India
. The series is part music documentary and part travelogue. The show casts musicians from various parts of the world, collaborating to create original music while travelling across India
. So far the first five episodes has been showcased. It features musicians Imogen Heap
, Vishal-Shekhar
, Zeb and Haniya
, Shantanu Moitra
, Swanand Kirkire
, Indian Ocean
, Mohit Chauhan
, Parikrama, Agnee
, Shilpa Rao
, Shri
, Monica Dogra
, Rajasthan Roots
, Papon, Rabbi Shergill
, Shubha Mudgal
, Swarathma
, Midival Punditz
, Karsh Kale
, Baiju Dharmajan
Hari Govind, Raghu Dixit and Rewben Mashangva. The show is hosted by actor-singer Monica Dogra
. The Theme music of The Dewarists
was given by Raghu Dixit.
from different places. By the end of the journey artists will have a track that will reflect each of their genres and also it reflects the sounds and culture
of the place they travel. Every episode is a movement to identify Dewarists in the realm of music
, who follow their passion. The show aims to inspire audiences to follow their dreams and do what they believe in. The music program started in India with a digital series with international artists Dub FX
and Susheela Raman
in November, 2010. They collaborated with other artists and performed in different cities. Then the idea developed for this program.
and Jaipur
in Rajasthan
, where Imogen Heap
and Vishal Dadlani recorded the song Minds Without Fear which is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore
's poem Where the Mind is without Fear.
, where Shantanu Moitra
, Swanand Kirkire
and duo Zeb and Haniya
teamed up and recorded the song Kya Khayaal Hai.
with Indian Ocean
and Mohit Chauhan
. The song Maaya was performed at venue called Garden of five senses in New Delhi.
with Parikrama, Agnee
and Shilpa Rao
. The song I Believe was recorded.
with Shri
, Monica Dogra
and Rajasthan Roots
. The song Changing World was recorded.
with Papon and Rabbi Shergill
recorded song Khule Da Rabb.
with Swarathma
recorded Duur Kinara.
, Monica Dogra
again with Midival Punditz
and Sikh-canadian Humble recorded No I.D. Required.
with Karsh Kale
, Baiju Dharmajan
and Hari Govind recorded Sacred Science.
, Meghalaya
with Raghu Dixit and Rewben Mashangva known as The King of Naga Folk Blues recorded Masti Ki Basti.
STAR World India
STAR World India is an English language television channel, part of the STAR World network, owned by Star TV broadcast in India. It syndicates popular shows from U.S. and U.K. to appeal to the English-speaking population of India and other South Asian countries...
. The series is part music documentary and part travelogue. The show casts musicians from various parts of the world, collaborating to create original music while travelling across India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. So far the first five episodes has been showcased. It features musicians Imogen Heap
Imogen Heap
Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, composer and songwriter from Havering, Essex. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes...
, Vishal-Shekhar
Vishal-Shekhar
Vishal-Shekhar are a music directing duo for Hindi films and are among the leading music directors in the industry today...
, Zeb and Haniya
Zeb and Haniya
Zeb and Haniya is a pop group from Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The duo's songs are mostly in Urdu, but some lyrics are also in Pashto, Persian and Turkish...
, Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra is an Indian music director who has composed music for the Hindi film industry, and is most known for his score in films Parineeta , Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi , "Lage Raho Munnabhai" and 3 Idiots , and private albums, Mann ke Manjeere and Ab ke Saawan sung by Shubha Mudgal.-Early...
, Swanand Kirkire
Swanand Kirkire
Swanand Kirkire is an Indian lyricist, playback singer, writer, also a television serial writer, assistant director, dialogue writer, both in television and Hindi films.Kirkire won the National Film Award for Best Lyrics twice...
, Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean (band)
Indian Ocean are an Indian rock band formed in New Delhi in 1990. They are considered to be the pioneers of fusion rock genre in India. Susmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarty, Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam formed the most stable and successful line-up in the band's timeline. This line-up lasted till Asheem's...
, Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan is an Indian pop and playback singer, most known for his romantic ballads. He started his career singing Indian pop songs with the band Silk Route, which released two albums, Boondein and Pehchan. The song "Dooba Dooba" became a rave in the Indipop music scene. However, the band...
, Parikrama, Agnee
Agnee
Agnee is an Indian rock band, and the first to have seen a mainstream release. The band's debut album "Agnee" was released on May 15, 2007. Since then, they have released many singles using the free distributable medium of the World Wide Web and gained a cult following in the rock music crazy...
, Shilpa Rao
Shilpa Rao
Shilpa Rao is an Indian female playback singer.-Early life:She was born on 11 April 1984 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Her father S. V. Rao, who held a degree in music, introduced her to music...
, Shri
Shri (Musician)
Shri is a leading light in the British Asian music scene. His work combines traditional Indian musical styles with Rock, Jazz, and Drum 'n' Bass....
, Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra is an American singer and actress. of Indian heritage. She is one half of the Mumbai-based electro rock duo Shaa'ir and Func, and has recently acted in the Bollywood film Dhobi Ghat....
, Rajasthan Roots
Rajasthan Roots
Rajasthan Roots is a band consists of collective folk musicians from Rajasthan. They create folk and Contemporary music.They use various instruments Dhol, Khol, Ektara, Bansuri, Tabla, Tambura and Harmonium....
, Papon, Rabbi Shergill
Rabbi Shergill
Rabbi Shergill in Jatt Sikh family is an Indian musician well known for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, "Bulla Ki Jaana"...
, Shubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal is a well-known Indian singer of Hindustani classical music, Khayal, Thumri, Dadra, and popular Indian Pop music.She has been awarded the 1996 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for 'Amrit Beej', the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music,...
, Swarathma
Swarathma
Swarathma is a Bangalore based Indian Folk/fusion band. The current line up features Vasu Dixit , Pavan Kumar KJ , Montry Manuel , Varun , Sanjeev Nayak and Jishnu Dasgupta .They released their debut album on Virgin Records on 5 January 2009, supporting it with a...
, Midival Punditz
MIDIval Punditz
MIDIval Punditz is an Indian fusion group consisting of two Delhi-based musicians, Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj. Their style revolves mostly around changer, jungle, electronica, and North Indian classical music...
, Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale is an Indian American musician, producer and composer, and is considered one of the pioneering figures in defining the Asian Underground genre by mixing disparate genres of music such as Indian classical and folk with electronica, rock, pop and ambient music...
, Baiju Dharmajan
Baiju Dharmajan
Baiju Dharmajan is an Indian guitarist, music composer, producer and guitar teacher. He is widely considered as one of the best guitar players to have surfaced in the country from the last decade. He achieved fame and huge popularity in India, as the lead guitarist for the Indian rock band Motherjane...
Hari Govind, Raghu Dixit and Rewben Mashangva. The show is hosted by actor-singer Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra is an American singer and actress. of Indian heritage. She is one half of the Mumbai-based electro rock duo Shaa'ir and Func, and has recently acted in the Bollywood film Dhobi Ghat....
. The Theme music of The Dewarists
The Dewarists
The Dewarists is a musical television series on Star World India. The series is part music documentary and part travelogue. The show casts musicians from various parts of the world, collaborating to create original music while travelling across India. So far the first five episodes has been showcased...
was given by Raghu Dixit.
The philosophy
Dewarists believe that Some things are just worth doing. They are in search of a song in each episode. The Dewarists will see musicians from different genresMusic genre
A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music...
from different places. By the end of the journey artists will have a track that will reflect each of their genres and also it reflects the sounds and culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
of the place they travel. Every episode is a movement to identify Dewarists in the realm of music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, who follow their passion. The show aims to inspire audiences to follow their dreams and do what they believe in. The music program started in India with a digital series with international artists Dub FX
Dub FX
Dub FX is a worldwide street performer and studio recording artist from St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. After playing and singing in a band called Twitch, he set out solo when he moved to Europe. His trademark is creating rich live music using only his own performance aided by Live looping and...
and Susheela Raman
Susheela Raman
Susheela Raman is an acclaimed British Tamil musician. Raman has released five albums since 2001. Her debut album Salt Rain was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2001.-Early years:...
in November, 2010. They collaborated with other artists and performed in different cities. Then the idea developed for this program.
Episode 1 Minds Without Fear
This was filmed in Samode PalaceSamode Palace
Samode Palace, Samode Haveli and Samode Bagh are heritage monuments and structures built by the noble feudatory with the hereditary title of 'Maha Rawal' or 'Maha Saheb’ of the Amber and Jaipur principality in Rajasthan, India. All three have rich history of several hundred years and display a...
and Jaipur
Jaipur
Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, where Imogen Heap
Imogen Heap
Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, composer and songwriter from Havering, Essex. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes...
and Vishal Dadlani recorded the song Minds Without Fear which is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
's poem Where the Mind is without Fear.
Episode 2 Kya Khayaal Hai
This was filmed at the legendary Capitol theatre in MumbaiMumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, where Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra
Shantanu Moitra is an Indian music director who has composed music for the Hindi film industry, and is most known for his score in films Parineeta , Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi , "Lage Raho Munnabhai" and 3 Idiots , and private albums, Mann ke Manjeere and Ab ke Saawan sung by Shubha Mudgal.-Early...
, Swanand Kirkire
Swanand Kirkire
Swanand Kirkire is an Indian lyricist, playback singer, writer, also a television serial writer, assistant director, dialogue writer, both in television and Hindi films.Kirkire won the National Film Award for Best Lyrics twice...
and duo Zeb and Haniya
Zeb and Haniya
Zeb and Haniya is a pop group from Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The duo's songs are mostly in Urdu, but some lyrics are also in Pashto, Persian and Turkish...
teamed up and recorded the song Kya Khayaal Hai.
Episode 3 Maaya
In DelhiDelhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
with Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean (band)
Indian Ocean are an Indian rock band formed in New Delhi in 1990. They are considered to be the pioneers of fusion rock genre in India. Susmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarty, Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam formed the most stable and successful line-up in the band's timeline. This line-up lasted till Asheem's...
and Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan
Mohit Chauhan is an Indian pop and playback singer, most known for his romantic ballads. He started his career singing Indian pop songs with the band Silk Route, which released two albums, Boondein and Pehchan. The song "Dooba Dooba" became a rave in the Indipop music scene. However, the band...
. The song Maaya was performed at venue called Garden of five senses in New Delhi.
Episode 4 I Believe
In PunePune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
with Parikrama, Agnee
Agnee
Agnee is an Indian rock band, and the first to have seen a mainstream release. The band's debut album "Agnee" was released on May 15, 2007. Since then, they have released many singles using the free distributable medium of the World Wide Web and gained a cult following in the rock music crazy...
and Shilpa Rao
Shilpa Rao
Shilpa Rao is an Indian female playback singer.-Early life:She was born on 11 April 1984 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Her father S. V. Rao, who held a degree in music, introduced her to music...
. The song I Believe was recorded.
Episode 5 Changing World
In JaisalmerJaisalmer
Jaysalmer , nicknamed "The Golden City", is a town in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital Jaipur. It was once known as Jaisalmer state. The town stands on a ridge of yellowish sandstone, crowned by a fort, which contains the palace and several ornate Jain...
with Shri
Shri (Musician)
Shri is a leading light in the British Asian music scene. His work combines traditional Indian musical styles with Rock, Jazz, and Drum 'n' Bass....
, Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra is an American singer and actress. of Indian heritage. She is one half of the Mumbai-based electro rock duo Shaa'ir and Func, and has recently acted in the Bollywood film Dhobi Ghat....
and Rajasthan Roots
Rajasthan Roots
Rajasthan Roots is a band consists of collective folk musicians from Rajasthan. They create folk and Contemporary music.They use various instruments Dhol, Khol, Ektara, Bansuri, Tabla, Tambura and Harmonium....
. The song Changing World was recorded.
Episode 6 Khule Da Rabb
In Kaziranga, AssamAssam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...
with Papon and Rabbi Shergill
Rabbi Shergill
Rabbi Shergill in Jatt Sikh family is an Indian musician well known for his debut album Rabbi and the chart-topper song of 2005, "Bulla Ki Jaana"...
recorded song Khule Da Rabb.
Episode 7 Duur Kinara
In Mysore, Shubha MudgalShubha Mudgal
Shubha Mudgal is a well-known Indian singer of Hindustani classical music, Khayal, Thumri, Dadra, and popular Indian Pop music.She has been awarded the 1996 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction for 'Amrit Beej', the 1998 Gold Plaque Award for Special Achievement in Music,...
with Swarathma
Swarathma
Swarathma is a Bangalore based Indian Folk/fusion band. The current line up features Vasu Dixit , Pavan Kumar KJ , Montry Manuel , Varun , Sanjeev Nayak and Jishnu Dasgupta .They released their debut album on Virgin Records on 5 January 2009, supporting it with a...
recorded Duur Kinara.
Episode 8 No I.D. Required
In GoaGoa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
, Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra
Monica Dogra is an American singer and actress. of Indian heritage. She is one half of the Mumbai-based electro rock duo Shaa'ir and Func, and has recently acted in the Bollywood film Dhobi Ghat....
again with Midival Punditz
MIDIval Punditz
MIDIval Punditz is an Indian fusion group consisting of two Delhi-based musicians, Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj. Their style revolves mostly around changer, jungle, electronica, and North Indian classical music...
and Sikh-canadian Humble recorded No I.D. Required.
Episode 9 Sacred Science
In Angadipurram, KeralaKerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
with Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale is an Indian American musician, producer and composer, and is considered one of the pioneering figures in defining the Asian Underground genre by mixing disparate genres of music such as Indian classical and folk with electronica, rock, pop and ambient music...
, Baiju Dharmajan
Baiju Dharmajan
Baiju Dharmajan is an Indian guitarist, music composer, producer and guitar teacher. He is widely considered as one of the best guitar players to have surfaced in the country from the last decade. He achieved fame and huge popularity in India, as the lead guitarist for the Indian rock band Motherjane...
and Hari Govind recorded Sacred Science.
Episode 10 Masti Ki Basti
In ShillongShillong
-Connectivity:Although well connected by road, Shillong has no rail connection and a proper air connection. Umroi Airport exists but has only limited flights.-Roadways:Shillong is well connected by roads with all major north eastern states...
, Meghalaya
Meghalaya
Meghalaya is a state in north-eastern India. The word "Meghalaya" literally means the Abode of Clouds in Sanskrit and other Indic languages. Meghalaya is a hilly strip in the eastern part of the country about 300 km long and 100 km wide, with a total area of about 8,700 sq mi . The...
with Raghu Dixit and Rewben Mashangva known as The King of Naga Folk Blues recorded Masti Ki Basti.
See also
- Music genreMusic genreA music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music...
- Indian music
- Hindustani Music
- Indian musical instrumentsIndian musical instrumentsIndian musical instruments can be broadly classified into four categories, mainly classical, western and folk. See Carnatic music and Hindustani music. The instruments are further sub-classified into the type based on the science behind the same....