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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nPalash Sen<\/a>\u2019s basement studio at Greater Kailash II is an eclectic place. Deep Purple and Tagore are framed on the wall. Eric Clapton, Jane Austen and Wisden jostle in a small bookshelf while a synthesiser masquerades as a piano nearby. In these creative surroundings, the gym equipment looks sheepishly out of tune.The studio is called The Clinic, more a memory than an evidence that Sen, the 60-year-old frontman of rock band Euphoria<\/a>, was once a practising doctor. There was a time when he treated patients at the clinic originally set up by his father near Shiela cinema in Paharganj. He stopped in 2000, after the music video of \u2018Maaeri\u2019 came out. \u201cThere would be a crowd outside. It became difficult,\u201d says Sen.Indi-pop was the hot new sound in town then. By the mid-90s, satellite channels such as MTV, Channel V, Music Asia and others had discovered the inadequate reach of western pop. The young and the restless wanted something groovier than the regular film music they were being force-fed. Indi-pop emerged as a hip alternative. Daler Mehndi, Alisha Chinoy, Lucky Ali, Colonial Cousins, Sunita Rao, Shweta Shetty and Baba Sehgal colonised airtime and mindspace. \u201cWith Daler, the genre\u2019s popularity went through the roof. He gave all of us hope that we, too, could do it,\u201d recalls the singer-composer.Euphoria rode the wave. Originally devoted to rock and heavy metal covers, their debut album, \u2018Dhoom\u2019, pursued a new Indie identity. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to sing someone else\u2019s songs all our lives,\u201d says the self-taught musician. The title track, \u2018Dhoom pichak dhoom\u2019, with Shubha Mudgal\u2019s tidal wave take-off, had a strong homespun feel. Ad film director Pradeep Sarkar\u2019s music video, smartly shot in Benaras, created a cool physical aesthetic of the ancient city while retaining its familiar persona of a soul kitchen. \u201cWe wanted to do something different,\u201d says Sen, dressed in a black \u2018AC\/DC Highway to Hell\u2019 T-shirt and knee-length denims.Then \u2018Maaeri\u2019, co-written with Jaideep Sahni (\u2018Chak de! India\u2019), happened. For Euphoria, the chartbuster was a great leap forward. Sen\u2019s high scale rendition of the pining Punjabi folk-flavoured number became theband\u2019s calling card. Many 40-plus Indians would still recall the music video: the girl with toothpaste on her nose and the boy with a coin crushed by a train, a totem of lost love. S en was born in Lucknow to doctor parents: a Bengali cardiologist father and a Dogra gynaecologist mother. Early years were mostly spent with family elders in Jammu and Benaras before his parents moved to Delhi. \u201cI retain a longing for these towns,\u201d he says.In Delhi, his mother worked at the railway hospital. Fellow doctors at the railway colony would drop by for evening tea, often unannounced. Sen vividly and fondly remembers walking to his school, St Columba\u2019s, just 2km from home. \u201cIt was a clean and safer city then,\u201d the singer remembers.Euphoria was founded, by his own admission, primarily to impress college girls at Delhi\u2019s University College of Medical Sciences (UCMS) in 1988. \u201cI quickly also realised that the girls were impressed when I was on stage, but no longer when I was off it,\u201d he laughs. At UCMS, he wrote and composed his first number, \u2018Heaven on the seventh floor,\u2019 a tribute to his hostel room. The band was euphoric when paid a grand Rs 25,000 for a gig at BITS Pilani in 1995. This was also the same time when Sen and company had to make the tough choice of being a serious band or a parttime one. The decision took time. But packed concerts and hit music videos \u2014 remember Vidya Balan in \u2018Kabhi aana tu meri gali\u2019? \u2014 provided the answer.\u201cCollege students were our main backers. We were the first artists they would ask for. Most people still struggle with English. We sang in Hindi, Punjabi, and a smattering of other languages,\u201d Sen explains their success. A t their peak, Euphoria performed 100 concerts a year. \u201cEven now, we do about 50,\u201d says Sen. Their 3,000 concerts were belted out over every state except Jammu and Kashmir, and in zencountries as wide-ranging as Turkey, Russia and Japan. \u201cWe also performed with Pakistani rock band, Junoon, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2001. It was a sort of peace concert, organised by Shashi Tharoor,\u201d Sen remembers.Concerts back home are more localised nowadays. \u201cTwenty years ago, they would ask for rock covers. Now we get requests for songs in Kannada, Telugu, Punjabi, Bangla.\u201d \u2018Dhoomsday\u2019, Euphoria\u2019s forthcoming work, collaborates with artists from different languages. The audience has changed in other ways too. \u201cIn the past, they would listen to our songs. Now everyone is busy shooting them on mobile,\u201d he says.Euphoria will turn 40 in a couple of years. The band has been a caravan where many have come and left to start new ventures. Apart from Sen, bassist DJ Bhaduri is the only other remaining member from the \u2018Dhoom\u2019 days.Sen has simply rolled with the changes. He has done films (Meghna Gulzar\u2019s \u2018Filhal\u2019, among others), been a judge on TV shows and directed shorts. \u201cI have done films and shows in Mumbai, but Delhi is my home, a city that makes me happy,\u201d he says. He has one unfulfilled dream: making a feature film.Sometimes, Sen still gets to play doctor. In Kolkata, he once administered CPR to a fan during a concert. On another occasion, he gave a backstage injection to fellow band member Gaurav Mishra, who had an asthma attack. And his specialty in orthopaedics came in handy when a girl slipped and broke her arm at a Goa concert. \u201cI gave her a splint,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n Palash Sen\u2019s basement studio at Greater Kailash II is an eclectic place. Deep Purple and Tagore are framed on the wall. Eric Clapton, Jane Austen and Wisden jostle in a small bookshelf while a synthesiser masquerades as a piano nearby. 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