Despite the love and appreciation they got from their fans, the journey for Euphoria has been full of challenges.
If you are a 90s kid, you would have danced your hearts out on hearing ‘Dhoom Pichak‘, a popular song by Euphoria, or crooned ‘Maaeri’ at a certain point in your lives. But do you know these songs and the much-loved band have been around for over two decades? Well, certainly yes. Euphoria has been giving us great tracks for almost 25 years now. To celebrate the milestone, the band has set up for an eight-city tour across India, which kicked off from December 9 (in Indore).
For those caught unaware, the pop rock band was formed by Dr. Palash Sen in 1998 in Delhi, and has released 7 studio albums and 16 singles. However, despite the love and appreciation they got from their fans across the globe and witnessing some momentous highs, the journey for the band had been full of challenges amid the constant changes in the Indian music industry.
Much to everyone’s surprise, Dr. Palash Sen, during a recent chat with news agency PTI, mentioned that they never got support from Bollywood.
“Bollywood has not helped us at all, there has been no support, and I would say this clearly. In fact, there were people inside Bollywood who would have liked us to have finished 20 years back,” he was quoted as saying.
He further recalled the band’s journey in the past 25 years and stated, “So 25 years of Euphoria is 25 years of great happiness, struggles, ups and downs, fights, laughter, music – everything has gone without a plan. I am grateful to God, and people of this country to have never let us down and never given up on us. And I am grateful for that.”
He added, “There has been support from the media, event managers, artist managers and we survived 25 years because people called us to do gigs, because we are live concert artists. That’s been the whole journey. And if you would ask me to describe it in one word, I would say it has been euphoric.”
Meanwhile, earlier in an interview with Indian Express, when Sen was asked what kept Euphoria alive and relevant all these years, he said, “We make a lot of music very often. It’s just that it doesn’t reach the people because it’s on our YouTube channel, which is completely independent. There’s no label backing it, and no sponsors. The reasons for our music not reaching people are many, of which primary is the fact that I had a huge fallout with one of the strongest people in the industry.”
The band is now busy re-recording their first two albums, ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Phir Dhoom’, apart from focusing on live concerts across the country.