Channel: Tushar Lall

Category: Music

Description: BANO, is a song that has been approached like a film score. The score encapsulates the innocence of a child and the grief of the parent who lost them. It is inspired by a child of a nomadic community, who was abducted, physically abused, and killed by eight men. The motive of this horrific crime was communal, a monstrosity much bigger than her little mind could comprehend. The score is sung from her mother’s perspective and depicts a slice of time from the day of the incident; the day she went out looking for her horses and never came back. The score unfolds as we follow her walking through the mountains. The tone of the video continues to darken as we come closer to the impending danger and follow her as a predator would. The video ends with a last shot that is a cinematic parallel to the trauma the tragedy symbolizes. Bano reminds us her tragedy, but interestingly, Bano also means beloved. I choose to remember her as the latter. Credit : Audio Composition and Arrangement - Tushar Lall Singer - Hansika Pareek Backing Vocals - Gargi Upadhyay, Smity Suri Lyrics - Mamta Srivastav, Raj Lall, Tushar Lall Additional Orchestration - Samarth Srinivasan Video Actor - Veerja Parekh Filmed and Edited by - Ritvik Tyagi Screenplay by - Priyanka Banerjee First AD - Kaustubh More Color - Sahil Amin Lyrics - गुम हुई कहीं चिड़िया मिल नहीं रही चिड़िया कहाँ खो गयी , हवा बन गयी लौटी क्यूँ नहीं, बिटिया ढल गया ये दिन , हुई शाम ज़ार ज़ार रोए है माँ लहू में सनी, थी पंख से कटी मिल गयी बाबा की, नन्ही जान गाँव में पली, बेज़ुबान जंगलों में दफ़्न, बेनिशान