kind of
[Music]
my memory of how you meeting our new
yard of all you know I tell me okay not
my legs are you hi how are you meeting
our new or novel can I tell me you’re
keen on a little yeah making my VidCon
party not even even me gonna be money
thought everybody would have got a car
everybody might have a name moon on me
the polypore the one car Nene the Sun no
marine enabling in no me other color
even damn under your mom it’s Unga he
Naveen Athenian a night morning’s artist
magical Shami Venus or mine Elena Elena
under penny how do you believe it coffee
go to thinking God all the time
gang gate here came late I’m gonna march
30 feet I can get here okay Lita gonna
March every pizza hi it’s all philippe
dubaye channel more Ishinomori tional hi
watching Nenana or Ginga nana haunting
nanananana
what you achieve during your move on to
God I did but in a more money now come
on hit we do hit a battery a saw sake to
be Jani health we death though he take
can we just get some hops there yeah oh
it could hold a home mortem the food
again did it or if I can get a humma
humma humma humma hey having a child’s
mind and imagination it was never a
conscious decision for me it’s not
something that I’d read in a book or it
wasn’t advice that I took a little too
seriously from someone it’s how I’ve
always been
and it’s presumably how I’m gonna stay
for the rest of my life this is me my
talk today will be about the biggest
moment in my life and before we get to
that I’d like to introduce you all to
the four childlike characteristics in my
personality which kind of helped me get
where I am
in my journey number one innocent
curiosity I love this one children are
curious all day every day it’s like they
explore the world through all their
senses and their questions never stop
who’s wise what swears they’re always
always full of questions and these
questions are never asked with any sort
of fear or apprehension of being judged
or being laughed at I was a very
inquisitive person continued to be and
my friends would know me or rather they
call me a walking bag of question marks
because I just have a question about
everything and just like kids like to do
it they ask questions in order to sate
their curiosity I think I come from a
similar
mindset and the thing is that me asking
questions has actually led me to the
point where I ended up learning a lot of
new languages I learn new musical
instruments
I learned and rather took a chance at
music production and composition and
anywhere from that to say learning and
finding out about various moral and
spiritual perspectives or finding out
about new unexplored places around the
world or just figuring out new cuisines
all of this was driven by my curiosity
now how has this helped me
I’m Kashmiri I speak Hindi and English
at home maybe a little bit of Punjabi
but I was born and raised in Canada and
then India and then I ended up singing
it around like the languages you just
saw me singing and say somewhere around
12 languages but whoever I meet I’ve
I’ve always been told that my diction
and my feel are extremely authentic so
to me that that’s a product of my
curiosity the next facet that I’d like
to talk to you about is a vivid
imagination a child can fly a paper
plane but that’s not the point the point
is them flying a paper plane thinking
that the bread that they’re gonna
breathe into it
it’s the fuel which is a great thought I
mean if you think about it write
something like so that was good thank
you I made that paper plane by the way
yeah thank you and kids can do that even
better than I can and this is a product
of their imagination and their
imaginations they run wild enough to
make them realize a larger-than-life
world in their minds that outwardly we
can never gate for me I used to imagine
going to a movie theater and watching
Shahrukh Khan on the screen
and seeing him dancing with Kajol and I
would imagine Kajal lip singing to my
songs
I mean Kajal on his secondary primary is
me and then and then Kajol slowly she
faded away after the 90s Priyanka Chopra
came into the picture then Deepika then
recently it’s been Katrina but I would
constantly imagine to them lip singing
to my voice slowly that kind of took a
back seat and I came to the point where
I would see myself on a stage like this
and probably a little bigger I would see
thousands of people I would hear a
thundering applause and I would picture
the spotlight on me the way it is right
now and for me this world created in my
mind it was so beautiful it was so
powerful that it led me to start moving
towards fulfilling that dream and this
is what helped me with the third facet
which is your listeners it is only when
kids indulge in their antics and they
get hurt that they learn so all the
matter of trial and error I remember
filling my mouth with water which I was
supposed to drink and I go to an
electrical socket and I squirt the water
into the socket I was shocked
literally that was that was ridiculous
just what I did there and I don’t think
I would ever do that again but I think I
learned from that one experience so
similarly children would try their hand
at anything in everything and what I
love so most about that is that they
want to do everything on their own I had
that Gita let me rewind to a few years
back I was 19 I was living in this
beautiful suburb in Vancouver Canada
with beautiful parents and two brothers
who I would die for I was pursuing my
pre-medical studies
I was on one major entrance scholarship
of $24,000 and then I had six other
scholarships that I was on and I was
working my way towards becoming a
neurosurgeon and people who would see me
you know common friends family friends
relatives new thought sasha is sorted
[Music]
this tune these lyrics this aura this
vibe this was it I died and I was
resurrected that day I decided to pack
my bags I left a very comfortable life I
flew down to Mumbai and all of that with
no money with no contact and with no
house to stay in I was fearless I
thought I’d make it in a year it took me
seven when I’d initially hit Bombay I
was on the railway station for three
nights because I like I said I had no
house so I remember at night I would
keep my suitcases all there and I’d fake
talking on the phone if I’d see someone
crossing by in the moment he’d go I’d be
like holy mother of God my phone was
dead
yeah and then in the daytime I would
keep my luggage in the brokers office
and I’d be house hunting all day and
then at night again I take all that
luggage out I was too proud to tell the
broker that I don’t have a place can you
let me just use your office to sleep so
this happened for three nights and I
finally found a place which is two and a
half hours from Bombay so I used to
commute by train to my house which was
in Copenhagen eh it sounds really funny
as well and I travel all the way back to
Bombay but there were times when you
know I didn’t have money I would have
saved three bucks I would walk six
kilometres to save three bucks on a
Volvo and again if I think about it
today maybe not today but at that time I
was definitely very very fearless I was
probably the epitome me of fearlessness
so this was then and so many rejections
but having said that let me go on to my
fourth point which is finding happiness
children find joined laughter in the
smallest subtlest places the struggle I
was telling you about the day I realized
rather the day I actually started coming
to terms with it that you know what bro
this is a part of life
I think that’s after which that was a
turning point after which I kind of
realized that you know what let’s enjoy
this let’s enjoy this moment let’s enjoy
the struggle let’s enjoy the pain it’s
not gonna come back when I’m successful
there’s no way I’m gonna stand and spend
the night at condo alley station that’s
for sure so coming to terms without and
enjoying that little pain that you get
in every step of the way you place a
chocolate cake in front of a kid and if
there’s a tsunami coming from that side
the kid will concentrate on the cake
because he loves it and so will I the
tsunami is gonna come it’s gonna come
it’s gonna take your way might as well
enjoy the cake right right thank you
so I don’t see the point of upsetting
unreasonable thresholds on happiness if
you get what I mean
it’s it’s pointless even in rough times
enjoy that fresh cup of tea in the
morning enjoying that smell of rain you
know enjoying a fans appreciation or
someone just coming up and telling you
that my hair looks nice today makes my
day oh and it should yours too you know
enjoy those little bits of appreciation
you get or those little bits of
compliments you get you know they’re
worth a million because the littlest
pleasures are equal to the biggest
pleasures because they constitute the
majority of our lives a huge chunk of
our lives when put together and speaking
of finding happiness and little things
there was a time when I had left music
for three years I had gone into music
production because someone had told me
that ah Kiowas korabik and I took that
very first movie I am a Capricorn I’m
very sentimental said that to heart and
I discovered a new side to me which
to be a composer and to be a music
producer and I had I sorry I had singers
such as Javed Ali mohit chauhan but luck
much I’ll I’m sure you’ve heard of all
these people they would all come and
sing my songs so it was a blessing in
disguise
and how this leads into my journey which
is the biggest moment in my journey and
that is ar-rahman sir I was called for a
recording after one month of auditioning
for Coke Studio and in Coke Studio as
part of the choir and my friend called
in he’s like hey Sasha would you be
interested to do choir for a monster I
was like dude I would be okay sharing
just the frame with him so I agreed I
did it I got selected and I was happy in
that and then a month later I got called
that grand monster would like to try
your voice for a few songs can you come
to Chennai I was like hell yeah so then
I went to Jenni and today I think it’s
around approximately 36 songs that I’ve
recorded with him with languages thank
you so final word on this is that it’s
fine to grow up it’s fine to be mature
but please do not ever ever deep down
lose the child in you it’s very
important for you to know that this
child in you is the oldest part of you
it’s what had initially been there it’s
the purest part of you it’s been there
with you since day one so take it with
you wherever you go and however far you
go and I will do the same and that is my
EndNote but before that I would like to
say that I I owe everything to ar-rahman
sir it’s so important to have people
like that in in your life and for him
erm answer has been the fuel to my fire
and I have no words I was asked to speak
about my relation with Rand monster and
how that’s been in terms of my career
and I never have words to say he’s a
genius but beyond that I get overwhelmed
gonna have to talk about him there’s
just too much so thank you and don’t forget the child in you
[Music]
my memory of how you meeting our new
yard of all you know I tell me okay not
my legs are you hi how are you meeting
our new or novel can I tell me you’re
keen on a little yeah making my VidCon
party not even even me gonna be money
thought everybody would have got a car
everybody might have a name moon on me
the polypore the one car Nene the Sun no
marine enabling in no me other color
even damn under your mom it’s Unga he
Naveen Athenian a night morning’s artist
magical Shami Venus or mine Elena Elena
under penny how do you believe it coffee
go to thinking God all the time
gang gate here came late I’m gonna march
30 feet I can get here okay Lita gonna
March every pizza hi it’s all philippe
dubaye channel more Ishinomori tional hi
watching Nenana or Ginga nana haunting
nanananana
what you achieve during your move on to
God I did but in a more money now come
on hit we do hit a battery a saw sake to
be Jani health we death though he take
can we just get some hops there yeah oh
it could hold a home mortem the food
again did it or if I can get a humma
humma humma humma hey having a child’s
mind and imagination it was never a
conscious decision for me it’s not
something that I’d read in a book or it
wasn’t advice that I took a little too
seriously from someone it’s how I’ve
always been
and it’s presumably how I’m gonna stay
for the rest of my life this is me my
talk today will be about the biggest
moment in my life and before we get to
that I’d like to introduce you all to
the four childlike characteristics in my
personality which kind of helped me get
where I am
in my journey number one innocent
curiosity I love this one children are
curious all day every day it’s like they
explore the world through all their
senses and their questions never stop
who’s wise what swears they’re always
always full of questions and these
questions are never asked with any sort
of fear or apprehension of being judged
or being laughed at I was a very
inquisitive person continued to be and
my friends would know me or rather they
call me a walking bag of question marks
because I just have a question about
everything and just like kids like to do
it they ask questions in order to sate
their curiosity I think I come from a
similar
mindset and the thing is that me asking
questions has actually led me to the
point where I ended up learning a lot of
new languages I learn new musical
instruments
I learned and rather took a chance at
music production and composition and
anywhere from that to say learning and
finding out about various moral and
spiritual perspectives or finding out
about new unexplored places around the
world or just figuring out new cuisines
all of this was driven by my curiosity
now how has this helped me
I’m Kashmiri I speak Hindi and English
at home maybe a little bit of Punjabi
but I was born and raised in Canada and
then India and then I ended up singing
it around like the languages you just
saw me singing and say somewhere around
12 languages but whoever I meet I’ve
I’ve always been told that my diction
and my feel are extremely authentic so
to me that that’s a product of my
curiosity the next facet that I’d like
to talk to you about is a vivid
imagination a child can fly a paper
plane but that’s not the point the point
is them flying a paper plane thinking
that the bread that they’re gonna
breathe into it
it’s the fuel which is a great thought I
mean if you think about it write
something like so that was good thank
you I made that paper plane by the way
yeah thank you and kids can do that even
better than I can and this is a product
of their imagination and their
imaginations they run wild enough to
make them realize a larger-than-life
world in their minds that outwardly we
can never gate for me I used to imagine
going to a movie theater and watching
Shahrukh Khan on the screen
and seeing him dancing with Kajol and I
would imagine Kajal lip singing to my
songs
I mean Kajal on his secondary primary is
me and then and then Kajol slowly she
faded away after the 90s Priyanka Chopra
came into the picture then Deepika then
recently it’s been Katrina but I would
constantly imagine to them lip singing
to my voice slowly that kind of took a
back seat and I came to the point where
I would see myself on a stage like this
and probably a little bigger I would see
thousands of people I would hear a
thundering applause and I would picture
the spotlight on me the way it is right
now and for me this world created in my
mind it was so beautiful it was so
powerful that it led me to start moving
towards fulfilling that dream and this
is what helped me with the third facet
which is your listeners it is only when
kids indulge in their antics and they
get hurt that they learn so all the
matter of trial and error I remember
filling my mouth with water which I was
supposed to drink and I go to an
electrical socket and I squirt the water
into the socket I was shocked
literally that was that was ridiculous
just what I did there and I don’t think
I would ever do that again but I think I
learned from that one experience so
similarly children would try their hand
at anything in everything and what I
love so most about that is that they
want to do everything on their own I had
that Gita let me rewind to a few years
back I was 19 I was living in this
beautiful suburb in Vancouver Canada
with beautiful parents and two brothers
who I would die for I was pursuing my
pre-medical studies
I was on one major entrance scholarship
of $24,000 and then I had six other
scholarships that I was on and I was
working my way towards becoming a
neurosurgeon and people who would see me
you know common friends family friends
relatives new thought sasha is sorted
[Music]
this tune these lyrics this aura this
vibe this was it I died and I was
resurrected that day I decided to pack
my bags I left a very comfortable life I
flew down to Mumbai and all of that with
no money with no contact and with no
house to stay in I was fearless I
thought I’d make it in a year it took me
seven when I’d initially hit Bombay I
was on the railway station for three
nights because I like I said I had no
house so I remember at night I would
keep my suitcases all there and I’d fake
talking on the phone if I’d see someone
crossing by in the moment he’d go I’d be
like holy mother of God my phone was
dead
yeah and then in the daytime I would
keep my luggage in the brokers office
and I’d be house hunting all day and
then at night again I take all that
luggage out I was too proud to tell the
broker that I don’t have a place can you
let me just use your office to sleep so
this happened for three nights and I
finally found a place which is two and a
half hours from Bombay so I used to
commute by train to my house which was
in Copenhagen eh it sounds really funny
as well and I travel all the way back to
Bombay but there were times when you
know I didn’t have money I would have
saved three bucks I would walk six
kilometres to save three bucks on a
Volvo and again if I think about it
today maybe not today but at that time I
was definitely very very fearless I was
probably the epitome me of fearlessness
so this was then and so many rejections
but having said that let me go on to my
fourth point which is finding happiness
children find joined laughter in the
smallest subtlest places the struggle I
was telling you about the day I realized
rather the day I actually started coming
to terms with it that you know what bro
this is a part of life
I think that’s after which that was a
turning point after which I kind of
realized that you know what let’s enjoy
this let’s enjoy this moment let’s enjoy
the struggle let’s enjoy the pain it’s
not gonna come back when I’m successful
there’s no way I’m gonna stand and spend
the night at condo alley station that’s
for sure so coming to terms without and
enjoying that little pain that you get
in every step of the way you place a
chocolate cake in front of a kid and if
there’s a tsunami coming from that side
the kid will concentrate on the cake
because he loves it and so will I the
tsunami is gonna come it’s gonna come
it’s gonna take your way might as well
enjoy the cake right right thank you
so I don’t see the point of upsetting
unreasonable thresholds on happiness if
you get what I mean
it’s it’s pointless even in rough times
enjoy that fresh cup of tea in the
morning enjoying that smell of rain you
know enjoying a fans appreciation or
someone just coming up and telling you
that my hair looks nice today makes my
day oh and it should yours too you know
enjoy those little bits of appreciation
you get or those little bits of
compliments you get you know they’re
worth a million because the littlest
pleasures are equal to the biggest
pleasures because they constitute the
majority of our lives a huge chunk of
our lives when put together and speaking
of finding happiness and little things
there was a time when I had left music
for three years I had gone into music
production because someone had told me
that ah Kiowas korabik and I took that
very first movie I am a Capricorn I’m
very sentimental said that to heart and
I discovered a new side to me which
to be a composer and to be a music
producer and I had I sorry I had singers
such as Javed Ali mohit chauhan but luck
much I’ll I’m sure you’ve heard of all
these people they would all come and
sing my songs so it was a blessing in
disguise
and how this leads into my journey which
is the biggest moment in my journey and
that is ar-rahman sir I was called for a
recording after one month of auditioning
for Coke Studio and in Coke Studio as
part of the choir and my friend called
in he’s like hey Sasha would you be
interested to do choir for a monster I
was like dude I would be okay sharing
just the frame with him so I agreed I
did it I got selected and I was happy in
that and then a month later I got called
that grand monster would like to try
your voice for a few songs can you come
to Chennai I was like hell yeah so then
I went to Jenni and today I think it’s
around approximately 36 songs that I’ve
recorded with him with languages thank
you so final word on this is that it’s
fine to grow up it’s fine to be mature
but please do not ever ever deep down
lose the child in you it’s very
important for you to know that this
child in you is the oldest part of you
it’s what had initially been there it’s
the purest part of you it’s been there
with you since day one so take it with
you wherever you go and however far you
go and I will do the same and that is my
EndNote but before that I would like to
say that I I owe everything to ar-rahman
sir it’s so important to have people
like that in in your life and for him
erm answer has been the fuel to my fire
and I have no words I was asked to speak
about my relation with Rand monster and
how that’s been in terms of my career
and I never have words to say he’s a
genius but beyond that I get overwhelmed
gonna have to talk about him there’s
just too much so thank you and don’t forget the child in you
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