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Sneha Khanwalkar, The Nomadic Musician

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We live in  an era where our musicians are finding it hard to evolve and bring up some thing appreciable. Instead some of them bring a blend of contemporary western style into their music while some others become a copy cat concealing the theft by being in a denial mode. But unlike them, Sneha Khanwalkar belongs to an entirely different breed. While many spent nearly days toiling in their studios to crop up a music of their own, Sneha roams through out India in quest of authenticity she expects in her every tune. She finds it very intriguing to travel to distant parts in India and abroad to extract talent and music out from places we never expect it to be found. She believes that each place has got its own music and it is that particular flamboyance she likes the most. In her recent work i.e Gangs of Wasseypur, the sap of her music is as raw as Anurag's films. She had given almost two creative years of her life to this film. The song "chi cha" in this film is sung by