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good afternoon sir
good afternoon how are you we’re good so
how are you
good thank you uh so we’ll begin with
the kind of interaction
um here we have a man who of course
needs no introduction
if i have to be a little dramatic in
konami kafir
um so so post uh we all know luckily uh
post 2000s and after a few songs
but we would really like to know who was
luckily before
uh being known as such before rising to
stardom could you please share your
journey towards
uh towards the stardom towards it
yes um i was always lucky early i mean
when i was born my dad gave me that name
so uh my real name is maksu
after my father but when i was born
apparently my father made his first
breakthrough in cinema
so he just so he calls me
lucky so that’s how i got money
uh so we often see you away from city
lights uh
i guess like even currently uh you’re
often seen disconnected with the urban
life
and close to nature farm animals uh
could you share about more about your
interest uh on farming and other
nature things yeah we grew up on a farm
actually i uh went to boarding school in
missouri
uh when um in 1961
the end of 1961 um since then i’ve been
up in the hills and then
i’d come back for my holidays and then
uh
when i was 11 years old my father
shifted all of us back to
uh to bangalore where we live on a farm
even now so um i’m kind of used to that
environment uh kind of a open
environment
so um i choose to uh i mean gives me a
lot of peace the
the urban uh aspect of life is very uh
what you call is confusing for me i find
that
burdensome and
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yeah nature has its own stories and
i mean it invites you if you really want
to get there
so i prefer living out on the farm and
you know staying away from the city and
that kind of stuff it helps me
do my work helps me to ideate um
put down new thoughts express
you know okay uh we’ve also heard you’ve
got some
interesting uh unusual animals at your
farm
is that true uh what are they yeah
we used to have lots of unusual animals
from the farm
beginning with meat so we had camels
and we had ducks
different kinds of chickens and
different kinds of birds and stuff like
that but
as urbanization you know started
happening uh
in bangalore because i’m in i’m from
bangalore
so i didn’t realize that it was
difficult to maintain the animals
on farm so uh
we do have quite a few still we have
lots of dogs and lots of
sheep and we have ducks
chickens stuff like that and then
there’s natural uh
fauna like peak box
there about 120 different species of
birds on the farm
so and we live on a lake so
you have a lot of uh what you call
migratory birds you know from siberia
and stuff like that so
they come to nest there and you know so
yeah it’s pretty active in that
in that aspect okay so
uh what would be your other interests
apart from
uh music and i see uh farming is a huge
inclination apart from that
farming these are all serious hobbies i
don’t think i have an
actual profession as such um i just deal
with whatever is there
that i am presented with uh in my case
um
i like to travel a lot um i like to go
to different places
and um generally chill i mean i
i don’t like to um what do you call the
right word would be i don’t like to
slog you know understand i mean like do
my work easily
so i can understand whatever i’m doing
so um it’s kind of unusual but
that’s how it is um so it’s kind of
interviewing me
when we go to road trips or when we go
to out to travel we usually listen your
songs
uh we would like to know who do you
listen to
i think your partner could you say that
again uh
when we go do that again yeah
so when we go out on road trips we
usually listen to your songs
on road trips i just sleep
okay we would like to know who do you
listen to when you
basically when i’m out on road trips
i just like keep my window open and i
like to watch
whatever is going by and uh uh generally
stop at the dhaba maybe
or have chai or whatever
and uh i like people i like i like to go
interesting places like up to the
mountains or drive down to goa
and it’s always the i take the not the
regular route
i go by um that’s more scenic
so that’s how i um i mean i’m used to
that
so i maintain that otherwise when you’re
traveling when you
when you’re like you have to go abroad
or something when you have to go
someplace
you take a flight or whatever but i
prefer a road trip always as compared to
you know yeah upon that year recently on
i think on 4th of december there was
this in its
seven weekender event how was your
experience there how was the audience
uh could you tell about that there was
no audience this was directed by my son
towers and uh yeah and uh
you just just got the musicians together
the any seven people felt that you know
they have to promote the idea of because
musicians today um
post covert are quite uh what you call
stricken with this
this whole thing because uh there’s no
recordings going on no
concerts and you know stuff like that
but
um yeah and uh what we did was we came
down to goa
with all the equipment set it up
had a few cameras just shot it and uh
just to test the waters as to how it
would be
now from now on you know because uh i
think it would be um
to have lots and lots of people in the
crowd and
in a concert is uh something that we
enjoyed but i don’t think we will enjoy
that again
you know the distancing you know
but yeah uh it was beautiful i mean i
was playing with my band after
a whole year so it was just we didn’t
even practice we just got back to
just doing whatever we would
okay uh so so you um i think most of us
will relate to this your voice is so
young
that it makes it it instantly connects
with all of us
uh mostly all the youth so uh we would
like to know how was your youth like
would you like to share some of the
incidents or some mischief or whatever
you remember from uh
that time yeah yeah
i was very input i always wanted to know
more than what was presented so
like uh for example um in boarding
school i was very small
so i saw b go into a wall so i
stuck my eye to see where it went um it
was a wasp
and it stung me on my eye on my left eye
but then i was not satisfied so look
with the other eye and
another one stung me on the other so i
had two big um
so it’s just like you want to know more
than what is actually presented to you
um that’s my nature i like to um
get into uh something to if it interests
me
to really understand what it is about
why
how you know all those things so
uh also sir this is one thing that i
think uh
a lot of people a lot of youth people
are facing uh these days
we often tend to lose ourselves we just
get disconnected with our
interest our passion and just go on
following hurts
following like hurts so uh what do you
do or how do you
keep connected with yourself or how
would you want people to get
stay connected with yourself well
um i don’t know anything specific
as such i just i just i i don’t belong
in a crowd
i feel that when the masses are going a
particular way
um if it doesn’t make sense to me i
probably just stand and watch
or turn the other way and take the other
direction you know
and uh seek my path there and uh
i felt that it’s worked for me because
you look at things in different
perspective than what the general
idea prevails or whatever
or whatever you’re being told i like to
look at it from a different perspective
and make my uh
make my thoughts up or make my uh
journey accordingly
you know but um yeah
so lots of people do it
lots of people will do it i mean uh
i’m probably uh someone’s uh in the
field so
you get but there are lots of great
people out there i mean you don’t even
see them
who are great artists and great
musicians and you know
so yeah it’s it’s about that
basically so we notice that you have a
kind of
calm and composed uh way of composure
so whether it is in your song or the way
you talk uh
so but you always this calm and sorted
or were you also mischievous and
drugged like i was
very mischievous i would say when i at
that age of mine i mean
at your age probably i was more
adventurous and
i could do things that um
that probably be looked down upon in
family situations like you know
just take the other road or whatever but
as you grow older and uh when things
start
you know connecting with each other then
you start realizing that
you know what makes sense what what you
keep what you let go
you know and it’s it’s about living
and learning and it’s um
and then applying what you learn you
know in your own life
and uh yeah
okay so just in case like um if it
wasn’t for music
what would what could have been your
alternate career or
uh alternate passion if you have to say
i don’t know what i would do um
i think i was just cut out for this i
mean i was born into this family i
didn’t choose my birth
so i was born to this situation
i wanted to be in the navy i wanted to
be in the air force i wanted to be
but then uh our direction was cinema
family direction so my training was
um my exposure was towards that of
course i mean um
i pursued my passion like flying and
stuff like that so i’ve got about 45
hours of
flying experience and stuff like that
and
uh yeah i read a lot
or i used to read a lot and
generally also i i um pay a lot of
attention to
uh innovation into
uh ideas that we still don’t hold on to
i even look back at things that we’ve
left behind and i feel that we should
inculcate them to have a more complete
you know existence right now i feel that
we
study um i mean the systems are such
that you study so in order in order that
you can get a job to serve a system
you understand what i mean of things
then for me that um
i could never hold a job behind the desk
so
um i tried
it just didn’t work for me so um
yeah i feel you need to unclutter things
make it more simple and uh
you should have a choice in what you
want to learn
whether it’s um i wish i hadn’t uh in
school
i wish there would be a a class for
carpentry or
a class for uh music alone or if you
understand what i’m saying but we have
physics
and biology this and that
i’m not saying that’s not good what i’m
saying is that
then we are they choose as to where we
fit
and then that’s what you work towards
and
you get a degree and and the corporates
come and get you and pick you out from
wherever you are and then you’re just
doing that
that thing but now post covered i don’t
know how it’s going to be
because it’s changed you know
it is going to be different no doubt so
i’ve also heard you have an
interest in astronomy or stars and space
is that true of course wouldn’t you i
mean
there’s so much out there we hardly look
out at the sky
there’s so many things to see even um
sometime that night you know
i like to gaze out and i like to see
star systems and
um you get to see lots of phenomena
and uh you know that’s
generally how it is also uh what do you
like to read
like you just said that you spend a lot
of time reading also
so what are those things that into you
well
not fiction i don’t like to read fiction
i either like to read history or
um uh non-fictional stuff like um
like um uh for example i read lyle
watson’s uh
history of the wind you know how winds
come and
you know how uh civilizations change uh
through
uh how the wind was you know how what it
brought along and
what it takes with you and you know
that was one then um then there was a
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deep time i think it was about um
the the study of an atom what what would
happen to an atom
in travel so these kind of things
intrigue me
because they are unusual you know it’s
not the usual um
what you call things that
generally uh you know you get into
your children get into but
now nowadays it’s different because i
mean there’s so much of um
interaction on there’s so much of
technology that you can play with
i play with technology a lot musically
you know so
for me it um it’s good i mean
it’s good yeah i’m not complaining
so for the current generation that is
mostly lost in the
social media or in different other
things that are kind of distractions or
maybe not exactly
uh kind of they lose themselves so uh
also talking about the
uncluttering so how do you actually
unclutter yourself or how do you direct
yourself
as a message to youth well
basically um i feel you will go through
that and then you will come to a point
where it doesn’t make sense to you
everybody goes to that journey and um
you will uh leave behind what you don’t
like what doesn’t agree with
you you will take forward what you like
and you know
make that part of your expression
so there’s um extremes in all places
what
what i believe is that you try to come
on to the middle part you know
there’s this and there’s that but try to
strike a balance between
whatever is around there’s so many
responsibilities a person could have
um whether it’s family responsibilities
or whether it’s work responsibilities
so if you can balance them out you know
it’s
it’s a bit of a it’s a bit tricky you
know when you’re growing up
and you lose patience and many of the
children kind of like probably get
people depressed about this and
you know dealing peer pressure and stuff
like that
so my thing to uh kids of today or any
time
was if you didn’t fall you won’t get up
it’s good to fall and not look at it as
what you call as something debilitating
or something that
that’s the worst thing in life you have
to fall in order to get up
and strive to move move ahead and make
something out of that
that’s what i call you know
right i think that’s a message to almost
all the people here
um also sir just over this i’ll take you
in
uh what is your perception of
impermanence impermanence that is the
theme
of uh terex hyderabad right now
how do you perceive impermanence in
things around you in
life well
nothing is forever in
in that sense like i mean you have
parents and then you don’t have parents
nature changes trees grow trees become
old
they fall down you know but it gives
work
way too new new growth
you know so there’s always a continuum
of of whatever it is whether it is life
or whether it is uh but there’s a
continuous
thing but we as individuals are not
there permanently
so you don’t really once you’ve done
your
your your bit in this place and then you
move on
someone there’s someone behind you who’s
taking it to the next level
you know so it’s just a growth so
impermanence
is it’s there but
there’s also continuation you know
yeah there’s a continuation of of things
of ideas of
thoughts of of ways of life
you know so yeah
so so there are a lot of people who are
sending me in private
if you could harm a few lines um
okay what do you want me to do what do
you want me to say
um
like about 30 40 times already during
the week so i’ll sing another song
peace
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within yourself internalize and you’ll
find what you’re looking for
and don’t get scared nothing to get
scared off you know
everything is learning everything is
alone
thank you so much
there’s no exaggeration into it but we
have all been looking up to you
since years and uh it’s such a pleasure
to have you
grace our event there were a lot of
people who were
constantly waiting for you thank you so
much for this and
thank thank you children for like
waiting for me i mean i hope i’ve
answered your question
i know there’s lots that you want to ask
me and
there’s lots i could tell you but time
restraints and whatever
but for as long as life is there you’ll
keep communicating
yes sir we’ll keep knowing you through
different platforms
guys you can continue thank you thank
you so much yeah
thank you so much thank you so thank you
so much thank you so