Talking about playing the Handpan, he tells us, “In 2017, our film Newton went to the Berlin International Film Festival and after we won an award there, I traveled across Europe and visited a museum in Poland one time. Right outside the museum, an artist playing the Handpan on the streets there caught my eye and so, I spent about half an hour just listening to him play and recording him. It was at that moment that the beauty of the instrument got stuck in my mind and I began a quest in search of it. Finally, after 3 long years of searching, I found a wonderful Handpan here in India and that’s what you see me playing in the video. The thing is, I fell in love with the soothing sound of the instrument and would love to learn it properly, which is why I found an experienced tutor in Pune who is willing to teach it to me via online classes. Handpans were actually first made quite recently – in fact just 25 years ago. You see for me, my aim in life is to continuously keep learning and experiencing new things that it has to offer, very much like this new instrument I happened to have found today.”
