Social media has disrupted the music scene forever across the globe. And while it has it’s pros, there’s a set of cons too, and Prateek Kuhad has identified it.
Prateek Kuhad
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Talk to him about his take on what’s happening today, and he says, “I think it is both a good and bad time today in certain ways for music.”
He feels art is more “democratised” than it has ever been before, “It is the easiest to make art today, even filmmaking has become cheaper than it used to be. It has made art accessible to everyone now. People who didn’t have exposure like a kid in a village somewhere in India, or Africa... they couldn’t listen to music or consume movies in a way they can today. You get access to free inspiration, education, tools to make it.”
And this is in fact the downside too, according to Kuhad, who is currently busy with bringing his Silhouettes Tour to India later this year, “Pretty much anybody can become an artist now. It is super unpredictable and competitive. I don’t mean ‘competition’, I mean saturated. It has led to homogeneity in music. there is so much of music out there. Like how everything is in life, there are goods and bads to it. On the whole, I am like it’s cool that everybody has access to art in an unprecedented way.”
Rishabh Suri is an Assistant Editor, film critic, and professional overthinker of plot points. He writes for HT City, keeping pace with an industry where news cycles expire long before the popcorn gets cold. He completed his graduation in English Honours from Kirori Mal College, followed by a Master’s degree in English Literature-effectively training his brain to over-analyse classic texts before applying those exact same skills to 3-hour Bollywood blockbusters. He got into the profession when he had barely graduated from college and has been at HT ever since. At HT, Rishabh reviews films with a simple rule: skip the dense academic jargon and get straight to the point. Beyond reviews, as Assistant Editor, he helps navigate the broader circus of showbiz, tracking everything from OTT shifts to sudden box office panics. In a beat driven by loud PR machinery and carefully scripted answers, Rishabh prefers cutting through the noise to focus on how stories get made and why trends shift. When he isn’t writing against a deadline, he is usually sitting in a dark theater, compulsively memorising dialogues. For Rishabh, analysing movies isn't just a day job- it’s a habit he couldn't turn off even if he tried.
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