Localturnon Band Of The Week - Fitoor

 

Localturnon: What is the history of the band – how did it come into being, members, its journey (in brief) and what does the name of your band signify?

Fitoor : First of all I will introduce my Fitoor !  "Fitoor" It means craziness or madness for anything & so we have for our music. Fitoor is a Delhi based Sufi Rock band founded by Supranshu Khanna in January 2013 which plays originals & Bollywood covers & Sufi Punjabi. Fitoor has 7 members viz. Supranshu Khanna as Lead vocalist and an acoustic guitarist, Vasu Mahendru as the Rhythm guitarist, Vishal Pandey as Lead Guitarist , Mack asthe Bassist, Jatin Dhingra as Percussions and vocal, Keshav Chopra as the Drummer and Deepak Joshi on the Keyboard.

Initially we were only 4 and we did our first gig on 13^th February,2014 at the New Delhi Institute of Management.

 

Localturnon: So who are your favorites/ Icons/ Role Models in the field of music? 

Fitoor : Band is influenced by Mohit Chauhan, Arijit Singh, Atif Aslam, Shafqat Ali, Rahat Ali, Sonu Nigam, Papon, Falak Shabir, Rabbi, Amrinder Gill, Tochi Raina, Agnee, IndianOcean, Kailasa, Papon, Arif Lohar, Gurdas Mann, Nusrat Fateh Ali.

Localturnon : How do rejuvenate your creative insights / get the adrenalin going?

Fitoor : As someone once said, “Our mistakes are our experiences.” We have done many mistakes and we still do, but we’ve learnt a lot from those experiences. Let me tell you an incident.Once I had to participate in a competition. That was before forming a band. However, on the day of the event my friend who was an instrumentalist dint turn up. And I had to sing without any accompanist. That day I decided to learn guitar and I learnt it without attending ant professional classes. It is all about dedication. About us (Fitoor), playing on stage is the only time when we feel that there is heaven on earth. We get energy from our crowd, we play and live for the crowd. Their positive response is our energy and our strength as well.

Localturnon: Do your songs carry a message / a theme or a story? If so can you share more on It?

Fitoor: Mostly we perform romantic covers so basically theme of our  songs  is to spread love but we also do Sad, Rock, Sufi, Punjabi songs as well.

Localturnon: Of all the songs you’ve created, which is your favourite one and why?

Fitoor: All of the songs we have created are our favourite because all of them have their different flavours and they have importance of their own.

Localturnon: Do you have any interesting fan stories to tell?

Fitoor: We've many fans and fan stories to tell but my personalfavorite is when we're performing in May at Bareilly one of my fan came to me and request me to click with her in a quivering manner & when I replied yes then she was that much excited that she was shivering when she was clicking.

Localturnon: Of all the performances the band has given which one is the most memorable and why?

Fitoor: Yeah we have done many performances and mostly all were good but one of the performance which is memorable and close to my heart as when we were performing in Entourage Lounge, Defence Colony. Because that was the gig in which we had the maximum number of song demands and each and every person came to the stage to dance. We get energy from our crowd, we play and live for the crowd. Their positive response is our energy and our strength as well.

Localturnon: Can you share about some funny incident that happened on-stage / during performance / with you or the other band members?

Fitoor: Hasn’t happened till now.

Localturnon: How has the musical journey been so far for you / your band and what are you looking forward to?

Fitoor: Our lead vocalist Supranshu Khanna had worked in Tamasha movie and Fitoor have been in the scene of Robot 2 as well and currently we are working on the music which is to be given for the TV serial in which our lead vocalist has  a role.

Localturnon: Do you have any words of advise for youngsters who want to form their own bands or are thinking of getting into this line?

Fitoor: Keep hard working, keep practicing, keep supporting us, keep loving us, and keep us in your prayers.

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