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SOUND SYSTEM SANSKRITI (unreleased)
The journey of pro-selekta and sound system practitioner radio host who goes by the name Dakta Dub from the multi- ethnic Indian city of Hyderabad. Him along with his Monkey Radio crew are facing a myriad hurdles and odds with a smile, in building the city’s first Jamaican-style spiritual sound system.The journey of pro-selekta and sound system practitioner radio host who goes by the name Dakta Dub from the multi- ethnic Indian city of Hyderabad. Him along with his Monkey Radio crew are facing a myriad hurdles and odds with a smile, in building the city’s first Jamaican-style spiritual sound system.
Film Name: Sound System Sanskriti (unreleased)
Film Type: Music Documentary
Genres: Music, Subculture, Society, Drama
Runtime: 21 min
Completion Date: April 2024
Country of Origin: India
Country of Filming: India
Film Language: English, Telugu, Hindi
Shooting Format: Digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9/ Color
Sound System Sanskriti
A Film by Roy Dipankar & Dakta Dub
FEATURING
Dakta Dub – Bala Subramanyam Swayampakula Venkata | Johnny Osbourne (Jamaica)Winston Mcanuff (Jamaica) | Skanking Star – Pavan Kakarla | Nahs Radus – Sudarshan Prasad Goli | Selekta Chakkra – Sushant Prasad Goli | Psylenz – Abhishek Reddy | Magunta East India Sounds – Satish Matta | Rahul Monkey – Rahul Mangal | Manoj Bhai – Ghanathe Manoj Baba | Sound mafia boss – Rajashekar Sharma S
Art: Costantinos Pissourios, Sashank Manohar
Web: Sushant Prasad
Camera: Amith Surendran, Sumer Mehta, Vamshidhar
Sound Design And Mix: Rahul Allam
Live Sound: Chandra Neil, Sai Kiran Yeramshetty, Rahul Allam
Audio Conformist: Nani Chitikela
Audio Mastering – Vipul (Audiosol, Goa)
Dubbing Artists: Adnan – Mirage Media Office
Score: Shakuntala Records, Johnny Osbourne (Jamaica), Barasingha, Shivacult, Delhi Sultanate + Begum X
Music Supervisor: Dakta Dub
Editing, Grading, Subtitles & VFX: Charan Balakrishnan
Color Grade: Jai from Filmblade
Screenplay: Roy Dipankar, Dakta Dub
Direction: Roy Dipankar
Producer: Dakta Dub
Executive Producers: Bala Subramanyam Swayampakula Venkata, Roy Dipankar
THE PURPOSE
The mission of Monkey Radio India and Bass Sanskriti was to create and promote platforms for musical, cultural and spiritual dimensions of the sound system culture, manifested in the form of soulful art events in and around Hyderabad & India. The intention is to spread the message of universal oneness and the concept of “I and I” through enabling Music, Dance, and Meditation for the Mind, Body, and Soul for people of all socio-cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, especially the youth.
Director’s Statement
My first feature documentary Extreme Nation is a film that explores subculture in the context of geo-political state of the Indian subcontinent. It relates to subversive underground music and lifestyle that I had aimed to capture and carry a message of angst towards rising nationalism, terror attacks, economic distress as well as youth culture in the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Filming occurred between 2013 – 2018. It premiered at Jecheon, South Korea in 2019.
What started with my earlier films like Nafir and Extreme Nation where I had explored the human condition following the music, culture and ideologies behind them in a geo-political context, Sound System Sanskriti furthers my exploration as a deeper human-sound-technology-spirituality quantum. It follows an ethnographic curve of past-era immigration and identity in view of a changing national sentiment in India to the world.