Most Incredible Rangi Saari Performance You'll Ever See! ​⁠​⁠‪@GIFLIFfest‬ ​⁠​⁠‪@Indiestaan‬ #indie

Watch Kanishk Seth and Devashri Manohar perform Rangi Saari live at the Indiestaan Music Festival — the original thumri that became India's most-streamed love song with 40 million+ plays. This is the performance that started it all. Rangi Saari is a traditional thumri — one of the most beloved forms of Hindustani classical music, rooted in the poetry of romance, devotion, and playful longing. The song celebrates the charm of a colorful scarf and the quiet mischief of falling in love. Originally composed by the legendary vocalist Shobha Gurtu, Rangi Saari found a new generation of listeners when Kanishk Seth reimagined it as a fusion of Indian classical and electronic music, co-recorded with Kavita Seth. That version organically accumulated over 40 million streams across all platforms — before any Bollywood connection. The rangi saari song was later remastered as "Rangisari" for the Bollywood blockbuster Jug Jugg Jeeyo (2022), starring Varun Dhawan and Kiara Advani, and crossed 100 million streams. But it is this original live performance — intimate, unfiltered, and full of feeling — that carries the real soul of the song. If you discovered Rangisari through Jug Jugg Jeeyo, this is where it came from. This is the version that started everything. In this live rendition, Kanishk Seth is joined by vocalist Devashri Manohar, who brings a classical warmth and depth to the performance. Together, they take the audience through the full emotional arc of the thumri — from its gentle, teasing opening to its deeply felt conclusion. This is the rangi saari live experience in its most honest form: a stage, an audience, and two musicians giving everything to a song that has already touched millions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Kanishk Seth is an Indian indie-electronic musician, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Mumbai. Trained in Hindustani and Western classical violin from a young age, and a graduate of Berklee College of Music (Valencia, Spain), Kanishk creates music at the intersection of Indian classical tradition and modern electronic production. His debut album "Trance With Khusrow" (2014, Sony Music India) was the world's first Sufi-Electronic album, nominated at the Great Indian Music Academy Awards alongside A.R. Rahman. He has performed at 100+ concerts across multiple countries, delivered three TEDx talks, and received a standing ovation at Jashn-e-Rekhta — the world's largest Urdu festival. His work spans film scores, brand compositions, and original music that bridges two worlds. Devashri Manohar is a classical vocalist trained in the Hindustani tradition. Her voice carries the warmth, expressiveness, and precision that thumri demands. In this live performance of Rangi Saari at Indiestaan, she brings a purity and emotional depth that makes the song come alive in ways that studio recordings rarely capture. Her rendition here is a reminder of why live music exists — to feel things that recordings cannot always reach. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 ABOUT THE SONG Thumri is a semi-classical vocal form in Hindustani music, known for its expressive, romantic, and devotional character. Unlike the more austere classical forms, thumri allows for deep improvisation and personal emotional expression. Some of India's greatest vocalists — from Begum Akhtar to Shobha Gurtu to Girija Devi — built their legacies on this form. Rangi Saari belongs to this lineage. The lyrics speak of a colourful scarf, stolen glances, and the playful restlessness of being in love — simple words carrying centuries of feeling. The fusion music approach that Kanishk Seth brings to Rangi Saari — layering classical Indian vocals over electronic textures — represents a bold new direction for Indian classical music: one that honours the tradition while opening it up to an entirely new generation of listeners across India and the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎪 ABOUT INDIESTAAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Indiestaan Music Festival is India's dedicated stage for authentic live indie music. Every video on this channel is a real performance, captured live, with a real audience. No playback. No lip-sync. Just artists giving their best to a song that matters to them. We present established names and emerging voices from across India — folk, fusion, classical, Sufi, rock, and everything in between. From Lucky Ali to Indian Ocean to Kabir Cafe to Thaikkudam Bridge — this is where India's best independent music lives. Indiestaan Music — Hindustan ki apni awaaz. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 Subscribe to Indiestaan Music:    / @indiestaan   📸 Follow us on Instagram:   / indiestaan_live   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #RangiSaari #KanishkSeth #DevashriManohar #IndiestaanMusic #LiveMusic #Thumri #FusionMusic #IndianClassical #HindustaniMusic #RangisariJugJuggJeeyo #LiveConcertIndia #IndianIndieMusic #HindustanKiApniAwaaz #SufiMusic #IndianFusion