Ojas Joshi (in red) is working on a track on alternate energy and eco-conservation

Each time Ojas Joshi would perform at music festivals or at more intimate jam sessions in the city - something he's been doing for four years — a handful of people would turn up backstage to pay the band a compliment. "Of course, they liked our performance. But what they liked more was the fact that we were singing in Marathi, a regional language that hardly gets represented on the indie scene," says Joshi, whose band includes flautist Easwaran Anantram and Omkar Kanekar on percussion. Interestingly, most of those who turned up were non-Maharashtrians who felt they could connect to the music as well as the lyrics.