Meet Gautam Raj, the violinist who ended up in films through social media

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1564839750035","data":"In a time when social media is mostly filled with hate and unsolicited opinions, musicians filling it with their soul-stirring renditions of our favorite songs make scrolling through social media a treat. In fact, many are even getting opportunities through their actions on social media and one such musician is Gautam Raj, a Hyderabad based violinist. An engineering graduate and a banker by profession, Gautam has been posting videos on Facebook for two years now and his skill was noticed and he played in films like RX 100, Sita on The Road in addition to working in the entire background score of an upcoming film - Seven.<\/p>For him, his vocalist father was the first inspiration and having grown up surrounded by music, he picked up the violin when he was 15, as he says, \u201cI wanted to learn music and seeing my father and a cousin of mine who is a pianist, I wanted to learn piano but when I realised there\u2019s only a violin school near my place, I started learning that.\u201d <\/p>"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1564839750036","data":" Under the tutelage of the eminent violinist Ashok Gurujale, he spent the the next few years balancing studies with consistent violin practice. \u201cI started learning carnatic music in 2005 and I spent the next five years practising for a minimum of four hours a day. I spent so much time with my guru that there\u2019s a lot of his style in my playing. Meanwhile I finished my B.Tech and did MBA. All throughout, there was constant jamming or practice, in various different forms of music\u201d explains the violinist who also performed for many short films.<\/p>This constant jamming is what got him interested in fusion, something that is seen in all of the videos made by his band Nakshatra. \u201cI wanted to make a lot of fusion music, replacing the vocals with my violin, backed up by guitars and percussions. I experimented with a lot of bands but it didn\u2019t sync. Last year, a bunch of musicians from the city did a musical flash mob at a mall and that was when I met Akshay Beri and Aveek Barman. Then we decided to form Nakshatra,\u201d explains Gautam, adding, \u201cWe started jamming together and a few months later, in March this year, we won the Battle of Bands contest conducted by a radio channel here.\u201d In addition to this, the band has also performed over 400 shows in the last two years.<\/p>"},{"type":"youtube","id":"vid-url-1564839750039","data":"PGH6yXj_SiE"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1564839750037","data":"Gautam, whose cover of Inkem Inkem Kavale got more than a lakh views on YouTube, says he didn\u2019t expect opportunities through Facebook. \u201cI love playing by-the-ear, as in I just listen to the song a few times and play it without looking up the notes or anything. I used to post violin covers of my favorite songs, recorded in my room but thankfully, they got noticed by the right people and I even got an opportunity to play at a TEDx event,\u201d he says. He is now waiting for the release of a couple of more films that he worked on. <\/p>His message to students who are interested in music is simple. \u201cConsistent practice with discipline is crucial, so is experimenting with different genres like Hindustani, Western, etc. Try to make your own compositions,\u201d is what Gautam says to students. <\/p>"}]

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