Original: 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.