Indian indie bands are increasingly using music videos as a tool to make their songs reach a wider audience. But progressive rock collective Dastaan LIVE has now gone a step ahead and launched what is being touted as India’s first-ever virtual-reality video. It’s for their debut single, Mat Ro Bachche, and involves an experience where viewers can take a 360-degree look at the shots after downloading an app and putting on headsets. We catch up with band members Sumant Balakrishnan and Anirban Ghosh to find out more about the effort. Edited excerpts.

What sort of role do you think music videos play in making an artiste’s works more accessible?