R. R. Rozario (nom de plume) is the co-founder and chief editor of Flipsyde. He is an award-winning film editor and has a fulfilling career spanning 15 years in the Print, Web and Film space. The art of storytelling is the heart of his work. For over a decade, he has honed a deep passion for technology, illustrations and graphics, driven by the principles of interactive design and user experience.
I’ve been listening to Aditi Iyer for a few weeks now, trying to put my finger on how the opera-trained singer’s 2021 EP Dollhouse had evoked a strong sense of nostalgia in me. Other than the beautifully layered compositions, there was something about her lyrical…
"Listen to this," my partner texted me, "It's right up your alley!" The link she sent took me right to Lavanya Ayren's Spotify page. The song that was meant to be "Right up my alley" was a single called You Need To Go, the second…
Before his newfound success as a chart-topping artist, Vineet AKA Vineet Singh Hukmani was the co-founder, MD and CEO of 94.3 Radio One, India’s only international-format radio station. When I first heard his August release WTF or Where’s The Fun (And not what you’re thinking),…
“It’s an honour to have collaborated with artists like David Joseph, drummer of the Benny Dayal-fronted band Funktuation, and Hanish Taneja, who has mixed and mastered tracks for famous independent artists like Divine and Naezy!” Aditya Anand tells us in his opening call. Anand, who…
Back in 2007, a few years before the term ‘clickbait’ came into daily use, I’d been baited by one particular blog piece in The Guardian called ‘Why metal fans are brainier’ by one Ian Winwood, who counts Kerrang!, NME, Mojo, Q and Revolver among publications…
What did Sheryl Crow, Andrea Bocelli, Leonard Cohen, Susan Boyle and Scatman John have in common? Unlike their contemporaries, they all got their big breaks late in life. In fact, the late Scatman John (John Paul Larkin) had been a prolific jazz pianist for decades…
“In 2019, somewhere in UP, someone spread a false message that a certain man was stealing/kidnapping children,” Shahzan Mujeeb tells me right at the beginning of our grim conversation. “Within 24 hours, 20 people were lynched. Can you imagine? Innocent human beings murdered because of…
At a time when real instruments are simulated on digital audio workstations with plugins, I've often wondered what electronic music would sound like if played on real instruments. Somewhere in the early 2010s, I chanced upon The Showhawk Duo, doing acoustic guitar covers of chartbusting…
As a lifelong student of film, my first response when I hit play on Ankur Sabharwal’s Better Man was - ’It cannot be!’. I had to watch the video a few times over to spot the intricacies. As someone who has experimented with film stock for…
What do you say to a man who has produced 68 feature films, launched the careers of 206 debutants in his very first film, managed the careers of nine out of eleven national cricket players, incepted Asia’s largest and the world’s fourth largest music festival…