Express News Service
Nikhil Uzgare is definitely not your conventional indie musician. He is a former microbiologist and is the frontman of the famous Dubai rock act, Point Of View.
His band opened for Guns N’ Roses. Now, he is the first-ever Hindi artiste to make a splash on the Universal Music, Middle East & North Africa (MENA) roster, with the solo release ‘Inteha’.
The Mumbai-born singer-songwriter and composer worked on the song during the lockdown in April 2020 after keeping the basic composition locked away in his mind for almost three years.
Once the track was ready, he shared it with his friend Neeraj Shridhar (of pop group Bombay Vikings fame), who added finishing touches to its mix and master.
Show business has a reputation of metaphorical scraped knees and bruised bodies before freedom and fandom. Nikhil Uzgare, who’s signed on to Universal Music MENA as the first artist on their Hindi music roster, knows of the rocky road only too well.
Uzgare just debuted his first single ‘Inteha’, which roughly translates into ‘the last limit’, and to him the timing seemed perfect. After all, it is also testament to his own journey that crackled bonds of tradition, broke through the gates of expectation, and finally began to reflect a self-identity that wasn’t so conventional.
However, the path began as many do – on a well-worn road. Uzgare, who is 47 years old, explains why his career began with a stint in Microbiology. “Back in the early 90s every Indian kid was expected to be a doctor or an engineer or something that was academically credible. My dad’s a leading HIV consultant and I wanted to be a doctor, too. That didn’t work out but I chose to pursue patholo