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Meet IIM Hell Raisers!
LESS THAN two months after entering the IIM-Lucknow (IIM-L) campus, the Hell Raisers are ready to rock-n-roll! Inspired by Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden, these Hell Raisers have already thrown enough hints that they dare to be different. So, while an official IIM band, 3.4, exists on the campus, this group of six, has already formed a separate band and named it (you guessed it, right!) Hell Raisers! The official band is yet to step out of the campus. But, the unofficial one has started making plans on giving off-campus performances.
LESS THAN two months after entering the IIM-Lucknow (IIM-L) campus, the Hell Raisers are ready to rock-n-roll!
Inspired by Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden, these Hell Raisers have already thrown enough hints that they dare to be different.
So, while an official IIM band, 3.4, exists on the campus, this group of six, has already formed a separate band and named it (you guessed it, right!) Hell Raisers!
The official band is yet to step out of the campus. But, the unofficial one has started making plans on giving off-campus performances.
Its members are young and talented. And like the young everywhere, they are impatient. Says Neelesh Trivedi, the lead guitarist and a pass-out of IIT-Kharagpur (IIT-K), “Two years down the line we seriously would consider making our passion, a profession too.” And if that happens these talented students would mark another first: Forming a rock band after passing out. Rebels? “No,” says Malcolm adding, “we just view life differently!”
And Vinod Kumar, nicknamed Jackson for his dance a la Michael Jackson when he was studying in IIT-Chennai, feels that music inspires them and they all aspire to be Guns N Roses or Metallica. Arvind Iyer, another IITian in the group who is also the lead vocalist of the band, is contemplating fusing different styles of music and composing a unique theme of his own. Fusion? “No, I hate the term.
Yes, it would be a blend of the music of various decades,” he says. Prabhav, the drummer is even more unique. He started learning sitar since he was in Class III. But, when he joined the IIT he got inspired by the drummers and he has been going bang-bang ever since!
After cramming management jargons by the day, Prabhav takes out sometime to perfect his chemistry with the drums. And like several others of his group, he too has some offbeat career plans. Sudhir Varanasi, the base guitarist, says, “Well, becoming a rock star is a very glamorous proposition. If it happens, good but even otherwise music would continue to be a part of our lives.”
Where was the need for a separate band? “Well, 3.4 would continue to be the main college band. But, then it’s more generic while we are exclusively rock and heavy metal,” Malcolm adds.
At heart each one of them, including Malcolm, the band manager knows that they would always be managers by chance. For, they all are and would always be musicians by choice.
