It was here where Bangla rock music got its first new sound. This combo was the first Parashpathar line up. They went on to win the WILDFIRE, the Rock Band Competition at SPRINGFEST IIT KGP. They had an act called PRAKRITI where they performed cover versions of Classic Rock. Anirban Sengupta (potla), Promit (keys),Doi(bass) and Amartya Bobo Rauth(guitars) joined in. He approached, Kingshuk Chakraborty (Piqloo), a natural percussionist,and Anindyo Bose. It was Auyon's drive to form a band who would only compose original numbers in Bengali played in a backdrop of Rock arrangements. Auyon hailed from St.Xavier's Collegiate School, where, he fell in love with the Beatles, Dyllan, Simon and Garfunkel, U2, PinkFloyd, Deep purple, Jethro Tull alongside all the Legendary greats of Rock. Auyon's width of spectrum in listening varied from Salil Choudhury, Sudhin Dasgupta, Hemanta, Biswas, Jasimuddin and a lot of songs for the mass. Anindyo was a known face in the campus owing to his 6years being a student and stage performances wherein he sang popular songs of Kishore Kumar. After Auyon Banerjee came along and joined JU, in his freshman year, the scenario changed.
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