text: The band is named after a boat belonging to Roughton `` Rou '' Reynolds ' uncle , and a character in a play which he wrote before forming the band , both of which are named Shikari . Shikari also means ` Hunter ' , in Marathi , Persian , Hindi , Nepali , Urdu , Punjabi and Bengali .
simplified: The band is named after the punjabi word Shikari meaning hunter .