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Aamir Khan at The Dewarists Gig at Zenzi, Bandra

Aamir Khan at The Dewarists Gig at Zenzi, Bandra

Dhruvi Shah
Aamir Khan with Zeb (Photograph | Naman Saraiya)
Konkona Sen Sharma (Photograph | Naman Saraiya)
Zeb and Haniya at Zenzi (Photograph | Naman Saraiya)

While we were wrapping up our garage sale at Zenzi the other day, they were setting up for the Zeb and Haniya performance/tweet-up. If only we had known Aamir Khan would make an appearance too. Anyway, since most of us don’t know who the Dewarists are, here’s a quick note.
Spotted in the attendance : Aamir Khan with his wife Kiran Rao, Konkana Sen with Ranveer Shorey, Cyrus Sahukar and Shreya Ghoshal.

Shantanu Moitra and Shreya Ghoshal (Photograph | Naman Saraiya)
Zeb and Haniya (Photograph | Naman Saraiya)

The Dewarists is a part music documentary, part travelogue of  inspirational stories of musicians who collaborate with each other over  an episode to create original music. The show will see various  Dewarists, from diverse musical backgrounds, travel together to one  destination in India and spend time dabbling with each other’s music  style. By the end of the journey, the artists would have created a track  that will reflect each other’s genres and influences as well as what  they gathered from their experience at this new place and on the  journey. Each episode will also follow the artist’s individual stories  and explore the choices they’ve made in their lives and what truly makes  them Dewarists. The show will be released online on www.thedewarists.com

Cyrus Sahukar (Photograph | Naman Saraiya)
Zeb and Haniya with Swanand Kirkire, Shantanu Moitra (Photograph | Naman Saraiya)

Zeb and Haniya, Swanand Kirkire and Shantanu Moitra performed at Zenzi, Bandra the other evening. Zeb and Haniya (Pakistani  musicians) are collaborating with Hindi film lyricist Swanand Kirkire  and Hindi film music director Shantanu Moitra. The foursome is currently  in Mumbai working on a song that includes lyrics in four different  languages; Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Darri. The song’s video is set  against Mumbai’s cityscape and includes iconic spots like Mohammed Ali  Road, Chor Bazaar, Britannia Café and Capitol cinema. At Zenzi, Zeb and  Haniya played songs like Paimona, Chup and Chal Diyey complimented with the beautiful Khoya Khoya Chand by Swanand Kirkire.