
You too allow download of your songs on your website.
RAHUL: So far, only clips of our songs can be downloaded. But from next week, we’ll be releasing new numbers—a song from the film Shoonya and another from Halla —on the Internet and they can be downloaded for free.
But how will you make money?
AMIT: We don’t want the money. We just want people to listen to it. We are selling other things on the website, like this live-in-concert DVD.
SUSMIT: A real connoisseur of music will, anyway, like to have an album he can hold and read up the lyrics in the booklet inside. An MP3 can’t be possessed.
When will we see an independent album from you?
RAHUL: Bad question (laughs). Hurts my heart. I think we’ll only be able to start working on it after March next year. For the next two months, we are performing in the US, Canada and South Africa. And then Bollywood’s keeping us tied. One by one, filmmakers are forming a queue (cringes).
Doesn’t that make you happy?
RAHUL: No. Well, it makes me happy in one sense. But we have had this discussion in our band that slowly, slowly we seem to be becoming Bollywood music directors. What will happen to our music?
SUSMIT: I don’t think that is going to happen. If it were, we would not have been going on long tours outside. We could actually just sit here and earn the money, right? We are a live band and that’s what we want to maintain, till the day one of us hits the stretcher. (laughs)
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