This is a bonus episode from the series ‘On a Serious Note’, featuring Seema Grewal, who is a poet, author and a radio jockey and Samar Bedi who is a music composer, singer and an independent artist dealing with and describing the situation of Independent artists and music in India. Both talk about Bollywood music, it’s incompetence in delivering meaningful profound music but accomplishment in marketing it right, the misconduct of middle man towards independent artists, the age of internet and the digital world’s music rights signing rules. While Seema Grewal puts light on the older times, cassette culture and genuine artists with rich and soulful music, they both discuss why Pakistani music is considered better than Bollywood music and NOT Indian music, because Indian independent music is vast and unexplored by the youth. Samar Bedi also discusses about the lack of vision in the youth and Mrs. Grewal debates that listening to Ghazals is completely normal and shouldn’t be considered a stigma. This bonus episode is overflowing with talks about artists, production labels and musicians from different countries and generations. Dive in and rejoice, listen to know more about the bands and solo songwriters trying to emerge from the the huge blanket thrown over them, which is Bollywood.