KARMA ON HEADING TO KOCHI, WATCHING ‘AAVESHAM’ AND CHANNELING GANGSTER ENERGY

The Dehradun rapper teamed up with filmmakers Anush S.K. and Lendrick Kumar for the music video to his new song 'Ring A Rose'

- By ANURAG TAGAT

Dehradun hip-hop artist Karma has never hidden his love for gangster swag, with songs like “Tony Montana” (with New Delhi star KR$NA), but now we get to see an onscreen personification in his latest music video, “Ring A Rose.”

In the video directed by filmmaker Anush S.K., shot by DOP Aswin Sumesh and executive produced by Lendrick Kumar in Kochi, Karma is part of a give-a-damn trio who take on an existing kingpin. The rapper tells Rolling Stone India about getting into character, “I come from a place where it’s normal to be like this. All that gangster [stuff] and everything, Lendrick and Anush, they told me, ‘Just be yourself. Have fun with it, try to live the character.”

They also told him to watch a few movies for inspiration, and although Karma couldn’t get to it immediately, after the first day of filming, he watched the gang-themed Malayalam action-comedy