Crowdfunding platform Wishberry has launched a campaign to support Roy Dipankar’s feature length documentary ‘Extreme Nation’.

‘Extreme Nation’ is a personal, cinematic journey to analyze years of evolution of what people call “the devil’s music” - travelling across countries, towns and cities of the subcontinent where Roy found a fascinating story to share with you and the world. The film highlights a diverse and equally discordant but well connected nexus of a volatile, extreme and underground subculture rooted in the Indian subcontinent; steeped in common history and geo-political strife.

Says Dipankar “I’m raising 5 lakh INR in 45 days and it will be of immense help if you can share this story for further pledges and contributions in your circles. This will enable me to complete this unique enthographic film.” 

‘Extreme Nation’ chronicles one of the darkest, most explicit and mysterious forms of a subculture spawned over years of metal music in the Indian subcontinent - confronting a high-power, historic and exciting ride from the past to the present - that have been hitherto little known or largely unexplored. Since time immemorial, mainstream namely popular music in the form of film soundtracks, has been the mainstay in the Indian subcontinent as calibrated by numerous radio plays and record sales. Heavy metal or its more obnoxious offshoot underground extreme music, has largely remained unexplored, misconstrued and misrepresented since years

Shot over a timespan of four years and filmed across various cities, towns and beyond borders, this feature length documentary delves deep into the lives of those who are die-hard beacons and irrepressible spirits of the subculture, unfolding an awe-inspiring anthology of the emergence of metal underground in the Indian subcontinent.

This documentary chronicles the unchartered realms of extreme metal and the entities who stand by it.

'Extreme Nation' is a thoroughly researched and honest attempt in capturing the true facades of extreme underground metal music in India and the SAARC countries, promising a high-power historic and exciting ride from the past to the present of this genre of music, without following the usual TV/ YouTube style music episodes which are sometimes painfully academic, often half-baked & lop-sided, and blatantly sponsor-led.

Dealing with more serious and darker themes and producing an even harder sound extreme metal has become the subject of a full blown subculture spreading quickly to neighboring countries of India like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

The film travels vividly from Lahore in Pakistan to Nagaland in the North East of India, from Calcutta to Colombo, from Mumbai to Dhaka – capturing the origins of this movement citing social and geo-political commentary by a youth subculture, set in a fast-developing but still conservative subcontinent.

For more than a decade, Roy has worked in creation and marketing of music, film & video art; both independent and mainstream; as an oft non-conforming, artistically debauch A&R (artist & repertoire professional) and a compulsive anthropologist that has made him work in cross-cultural organizations. An active contributor to the subculture eco-system, Roy also curates film festivals and screenings throughout the year for independent cinema and make films that convey compelling stories of our times, that need to be told.

NAFiR was his debut directorial effort which premiered at the 21st Kolkata International Film Festival, 14th Film Dokumenter Festival, Yogyakarta Indonesia and 17th Madurai International Film Festival.

He is currently working on his foray into fiction - short films and a feature-in-development apart from his feature documentary ‘Extreme Nation’, to be released shortly.

Watch the trailer of ‘Extreme Nation here and check regular updates on Facebook and Twitter.

Pledge here: Wishberry Campaign Page: Extreme Nation