As a result, music which was independent, free from any interference of a record label or a corporate setup, started getting noticed and popular. ‘Emptiness’ was one of the many songs released in that time, when Internet was only still making its way into the upper-middle class households in Tier-1 cities in India, and youngsters, had only discovered the world of downloading content and, the fact that free music was literally just a click away. I had no idea who cooked up the story or how it all happened,” he says. I was home, during holidays when I first got to know.
“I didn’t know back then what story was going around, which is why people were listening to the song. The fictional story was that of Rohan Rathore, an IIT-Guwahati student, who wrote a final love song, 15 days before his death from cancer, for a girl who didn’t love him back.
It was meant to be for an audio-visual project, which never took off, but some how leaked along with a story, which contributed immensly to the song’s virality, but, Verma claims, he had no part in it. The song, titled ‘Emptiness’ or 'Tune Mere Jaana Kabhi Na Jaana', was one of the first songs ever composed by Verma, while he was studying in college.
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