Two years look like too short a period for a freshers’ venture to get celeb-stamped or make a big bang. That said, your attention is invited upon the band Adholokam. With no big accomplishments to boast of, they hit the right chord at age of two — a tinsel town ticket.
The seven piece multi-genre band based in Thiruvananthapuram is on cloud nine for belting out a Hindi promo song for the upcoming flick LBW directed by Shajeer Sha, awaiting a March release. Look at the band line-up and you get a good jaw drop. Here you see some young boys, majority in their early years of college life together with a school student do all the strumming, crooning and jamming. “The whole business is happening within friends.
The film director is our friend and thus we were called for the movie. The director has penned the lyrics and set the tune, we did the orchestration part along with singing,” says Akshaynath M.S., one of the two vocalists in Adholokam.
The promo song was sung by Akhil Balan, the other vocalist. Amal Balan, the base guitarist and Akhil Balan are brothers who are the sons of Pandalam Balan, a name to be reckoned with in Ganamela circuits. Amal, a plus-two student is the youngest of seven and all other members are either in their first or second year of degree courses.
“All of us have been friends from schooldays. So we had no second thoughts of forming a music band. Since the band formation in 2014, we focused more on appearing for inter-collegiate fests. We took part in live gigs twice,” Akshay explains. Earlier, the band set the background score for a short film Palpayasam.
Modestly calling themselves ‘genre resistive’, the team has liking for popular rock labels of the likes Skillet, Linkin Park, heavy metal band Metallica and Avial, the Indian alternative rock. In Adholokam, Santhosh Sasi is on lead guitar, Adarsh Venu on rhythm guitar, Christy Aby Varghese on keys and Ajay Santhosh on drums.
The silver screen calling came before they were planning their own compositions and now they concentrate in the making of two songs.
