GIFF: Gramlmy Winner Ricky Kej’s Master Class On Music

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The 3rd Guwahati International Film Festival (GIFF) seems to feed the film addicts not just with number of quality movies but with interactive sessions and master class by renowned personalities from different part of world. Such a Master Class with Ricky Kej, an environmentalist and 2015 Grammy award winner, as the resource person enlightened the audience with a resourceful lecture on music-film- environment.

Starting from sharing his journey from having a degree of Dental Surgery to fulfilling his dream of being a musician, from the issues of climate change to the critical scenario of Human and Elephant conflict and most importantly utilizing creativity i.e. music and film as medium to bring a solution and spread message to make people aware and also presenting some of his music made on issues showing the critical environmental condition Kej’s lecture enlightened the audience with a deep message to be a conscious human being.

Explaining about the critical condition that the world is perhaps going to witness in near future Kej said, “It’s our turn as filmmakers and musicians to do something for climate change, as, politicians are not going to do anything anyway. The last 15 years have been the hottest 15 years in the planet; hence all the recent natural disasters have been the worst one. We, as human being are exploiting our planet, but we must not forget the fact that forest and wildlife are the true inhabitants of the world and they are the true citizens.”

Kej further added, “It’s through music that I felt a deep connection with nature, music started with the natural sounds , then human trying to imitate it and its been only three and four hundred years back that it became academic. We should use our patriotism to save the bio diversity, as we can’t survive without nature but nature can survive without us. So, all we have to do is to save ourselves from exploitation.”

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