‘Yama can teach me to run Underworld’
CHENNAI: The founder director and lead violinist of the band city-based Yaazhi, Kiran Kashyap’s passion for music has taken him to places. He likes to explore and experiment with a variety of genres.
If you had to describe god to a child?
God makes you smile and feel safe.
What if god was a man, or a woman?
If god was a man, I would probably go gaming with him. If god was a woman, I would ask her out on a date.
If there was a dare/challenge you would like to give god what would it be?
I would ask god to make the perfect vathakuzhambu and arisi upma. My mom and my grandmother, who are two experts of the craft, haven’t perfected it yet and they have had a lot of practice. So there’s no way god can pull it off.
If you had the power to grant one gift to God, what would it be?
The gift of mortality.
Your most godly encounter?
Every time I play music, the sync we get as a team or the sync I get with my violin transends me to another dimension.
What if god were an alien?
Get my laser gun ready!
Funniest encounter in a place of worship?
I have always found people blaming god for their failures but never thanking the lord when they get what they want. That is funny, isn’t it?
A quirky habit that you have in terms of being spiritual or a believer?
I strike deals with gods before doing something big or important. Like really crazy deals.
If you could prepare a joke about god and present it in front of him, what would it be?
You created man in your image? Didn’t do a very good job, did you?
If there was one thing you’d want god to change, what would it be? Why?
I would ask him to sit down and redefine himself to humans, because we have got it all wrong.
Our Indian gods or Greek gods...Who would you pick? Why?
Definitely Indian gods. I would want to befriend Yama. Running the underworld ain’t easy!
A one liner that you would throw at God?
How you doing? (like Joey from FRIENDS)