An Equal Music

A new OTT series-Equals on JioCinema-puts the spotlight on folk artists from across India

''IF we want someone to gulp down something bitter-by bitter, I mean classical music]-the platter should be presented well. Then they will eat it, bitter or sweet," says Varanasibased thumri singer Sucharita Gupta about her song with Hindi pop-rock band The Yellow Diary, in the opening episode of Equals, a new seven-part music documentary series on JioCinema.

Conceptualised by New Delhi-based non-profit Anahad Foundation, which works to catalogue and release the work of folk musicians and enhance their revenue-generating opportunities, Equals spotlights seven of the country's most prominent folk artists by tracing their stories and getting them to create a song with their more mainstream counterparts. In other words, as Gupta says, it offers their music in a more appealing package.