Nadiyaa by Aurko - A review

Aurko has done it all – corporate stage shows, stadium concerts or college fests – all with the simple intent to leave the audience breathless!

Aurko's innumerous performances enrapture the audience with original compositions, indi-pop / bollywood chartbusters as well as classic covers in an ensemble that is their very own.

Each show is their first, the same anticipations & nerves, followed by a power-packed, tediously captivating performance which can no less be described only as an experience!

"When the audience appreciates our performance, it's just the best feeling ever..

It makes us strive to be better"- Jeet

They're famed for their non-stop, pumping medleys spanning soulful ballads to numbers that set the floor on fire…They'll set your feet more than just tapping, and that is a guarantee.

Anyone who's been to an Aurko show is warned to prepare for some serious fun.. coz you may be up on the stage jamming & jiving along with these mavericks… Their vivacious personalities and youthful presence is a rave with the audiences as they deliver what few bands in the country can claim – an undiluted audience delirium achieved purely through the music all Indians have grown up with, our very own music!

"It's a total blast… like one mega party" – Yathi

SONG NOTES OF ALBUM NADIYAA, AND CREDITS

Thoughts Behind …

Puchhe Yeh Dil Se

– The Ballad

How simple it is to take the one we love, for granted... and even simpler to unknowingly hurt the one we once promised never to hurt... trivial incidents create distances...

We all try to balance too many things to live up to commitments in today's jet set robotic world, and often end up being misunderstood, heartbroken or estranged from the very person whose happiness we have being working for so hard, so long!

Isn't it your story too?

Nadiyaa

– the unstoppable spirit of life

The monsoons of India, heavy showers… a slice of life... full of zest. Using the flavors of 'Bengali Bhatiyali', Nadiyaa is metaphorical, flowing river - illustration of life itself, to tide you across these flowing waters, the 'Majhi' could be anyone, a rickshaw puller, an astronaut or even AURKO.

Life is beautiful and it goes on…

Laage Na Jiya Re

Sheer fun intermixed with a longing for the good old days of high school and college.

The 'Dil Ke Dhadkan' of the college is 'patao-ed' by who else but the 'bad boys' of the common room, amidst the fests, the rehearsals, the one-act plays, the night–outs of hectic preparations for the Annual Day Dhamaka...

The 'Aam ka Per', the rap on the DAFLI, a dash of Sufi, the flavour of the mustard fields of Punjab –the song of our soul… our good old college days

Kaho Na

A flood of memories, the longing for the cradle that once nested us, the walls that protected us, the hands that wiped our tears, the laughters that shared our joy... that is why we are back home wondering why did we ever go? Home is where the Heart is… hamara Aashiyana... Isn't it? Kaho Na ?

Raat Ke Kohre Mein

Time glides by ... Dusk Falls , Enter Sadness with Gloom following close behind.

Melancholy lingers. Cloying. Silent. Silently wailing… Alone. All alone.

A Glimmer. I look up. Frown. Hope, is that you?Night falls and silence screams from behind, a wink seems like an era... all that remains is a ticking clock and eyes bereft of sleep...

Time glides by...

Yaadein

This one is personal. A memory of things that could have been, but were lost in the quick sand of time and reality. It could happen to anyone. It has happened to us. The pain we felt when some of our own , who dreamt this dream with us, had to part. Leave us due to the realities that the world threw at them. This is for them… Yaadein - the name says it all.

Dholna

Welcome to Assam, land of Bihu and the time to shed inhibitions and sway to lilting music and swinging rhythm, the time to stop being single!

Roke Chahe Ye Zamana

This is the result of a spur of the moment for a few youngsters who wanted something to dance to. Young, crazy, wild... that was the objective. Like it? Get up and dance!!

Aurko's Music Videos

Nadiyaa

– Directed by Oni Sen, Illusion Films (Mumbai);

Choreography

– Howart; behind the lenses – Mrinal; and Team Illusion - Suparna, Rupesh, Hiten, Dibyendu, Our heartfelt thanks to Dinesh Da and the entire production team, Our co actors and Master Ayanaav for his brilliant expression in the closing shot.

Puchhe Ye Dil Se

– Directed by Sunil Raina, Thinking Pictures (Bangalore); Special thanks to Mithun, Sekhar and the entire team at TP, Nakuul and Sampada for giving their very best

NADIYAA is dedicated

To our parents and families – for standing by us in joy and sorrow, in peace and strife and tolerating the madness that is part and parcel of being in Aurko!