He sang AR Rahman’s "Maa Tujhe Salaam" while paragliding and won the internet's heart. Rupesh Maity speaks to Brut about his first viral video.
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00:00Hi Brute, this is Rupesh and this is my first viral video.
00:08I posted this video around February of 2020. It didn't really go viral. I mean,
00:15like all my friends circle shared it and people loved it. People loved the idea,
00:20the uniqueness of the idea and all people thought that this was something out of the box. But it
00:24didn't really go viral at that time. Around one and a half months later, some pages started
00:32sharing my video all of a sudden. And then eventually AR Rahman sir also got to know
00:40about this video and he shared my video on his Instagram page. That was the biggest moment of my
00:49entire paragliding journey. And it kind of slowed down over time. And then recently again,
00:56I don't know how, I mean, I think this virality, I mean, there are phases. So again, this time,
01:02you know, it receives like, I don't know, like four days it received 10 million views.
01:06So it's, it was, it's really great.
01:17So all these ideas about combining music with adventure sports, it started, it came to me when
01:24I, you know, went to Goa. There was a beautiful sunset and there were people who were kayaking,
01:30there were people who were parasailing and all these things. And I was always looking for
01:34something unique to do with music. I saw some people kayaking. So I thought maybe I'll go for
01:40the kayaking and I'll have a beautiful sunset, a natural, beautiful sunset. And the only sound
01:45we actually get is the sound of the waves and the sound of the wind in the ocean and my own,
01:54you know, voice singing. So that was the plan. I couldn't call it as adventure sports. Like I did
02:00kayaking once and I sang O Sanam by Lucky Ali while doing kayaking.
02:14I sang on the highest motorable highway of the world. That is in, that's in Leh Ladakh.
02:20That's in Ladakh, not Leh. So I sang while, you know, motorbiking in Ladakh.
02:31While skydiving, that's something on my bucket list. When Jeff Bezos went to space, I was like,
02:37okay, this is another thing that I can probably think about. I mean, I have to earn a lot of
02:42money for that, of course. But yeah, I want to sing in space. I hope that eventually space
02:48travel is more affordable and hopefully I can do something like that.
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