How did you form your band Arya with drummer par excellence Roberto Narain?
I think at that time my only dream was to form my own live band. Roberto had been on the music circuit in Bangalore for 20 years. When I told my parents music is what I wanted to do full time, they put me in touch with the one family member who had been in a college band. He in turn introduced me to Roberto who was in a heavy metal band. He said to me I’m the wrong guy to come to because I really am not on the commercial circuit. At that time I thought he was just being evasive and snooty and I walked away in a huff vowing not even to be his friend. I decided to go to Madras on my own and meet various record labels, to get a record deal. I met Magnasound first, auditioned for them and they didn’t let me go anywhere else. They put me in touch with Praveen Mani, a Canada based producer and composer, and we started working on demos. I had told my parents I was going to be in Madras for a week. Mom would call me 5 times a day asking what I was doing. I didn’t want to tell her about the rec
