From the Heart: BITS Pilani Students pay Tribute to the Music Maestro A. R. Rahman on World Music Day

• BITS Pilani is a prestigious Institute of technology located in Pilani, Rajasthan
• Recently, some students composed music using an app Dextra to pay tribute to AR Rahman
• The students used an aap 'DEXTRA' to compose their music video

On the occasion of 'World Music Day' the students of BITS (Birla Institute of Technology and Science) Pilani in Rajasthan, came up with the idea of paying tribute to the music maestro A. R. Rahman through a video composition.

Two-time Oscar winning composer A.R. Rahman is India's one of the most loved musician. Pointless to say, he has always delivered and continues to deliver magic with his musical notes, that leaves his listeners with goosebumps.

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What makes the video interesting is that the students have picked Rahman's one of the popular compositions and have improvised it to pay tribute to the music maestro.

Behind this exercise lies a story. Kushal and Divyaansh are engineering students at BITS, Pilani. They were interested in the musical world but pursuing a career in engineering clearly changed the track for them. This, however, did not kill their love for the art. Using an innovative concept for budding artists- DEXTRA, a platform for all the upcoming talents in the field of creativity, they decided to give rendition to their Music.

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'The students from BITS Pilani who feature in the video are Arya Arun (lead vocals), Kushal Jasoria (lead vocals, video and audio editing), Saksham Nagar, Abhinav Gandotra, Devam Jhanwar, Kriti Jain, Swathi Muddha and Shubham Rathi (backing vocals), Nikhil Jhingade (keys), Sanjay Ghosh (guitar), Ravneet Bansal (bass guitar), Sudevan Chandrasekharan (violin), Dishant Sangani (keys) and Samakshi Tiwari (cinematography).'

The video ends with famous artists like Parry G, Mala Mary Martina, Agam and Gurucharan, Akash Gautam, who have endorsed the platform in their words. These 'tech savvy' students have definitely given the world of music a new dimension.

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The students used an aap 'DEXTRA' to compose their music video. The makers of Dextra app claim: We provide a platform to various artists to come together and interact with each other." It aims to teach all the participants on how one should network with people, who appreciate and consider something new and creative.

-Report compiled by Megha Sharma of NewsGram. Twitter: @meghash06510344

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