Leaving Home: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean

Releases tomorrow, 2nd April, 2010.

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Zindagi soz bane, saaj naa hone paaye
saaz-e-dil jab bhi baje aawaaz na hone paaye 

As the opening credits start rolling, the camera, maybe of a visitor, catches the usual sights of Delhi. But then the film is about music. We hear the sounds. The usual sounds of Delhi. Buses honking, deep hum of trucks, musical horns cutting wind, the steel buzz of autos, the rush of a passing car, the slow turning of a cycle rickshaw, a train, a car stuck at a red light, screaming, people shouting, laughs, radio playing an old melody, street vendors and their business hymns. Someone beating on a metal sheet. The general noise of Delhi. But then as the credits reach the end, you start to realize that the heart of this noise is now slowly beating to a rhythm. The noise starts to fade in with the music. The music of Indian Ocean. We hear the band jamming in an old decrepit house at Karol Bagh. Their pad. A house that once housed Faiz.