MUSIC DIRECTOR VISHAL CHANDRASHEKHAR INTERVIEW

The original cut was almost 4 hours long. After watching the film at a stretch, I called Santosh Sivan sir requesting him to give me some time to start the work. The visuals were hard-hitting and I couldn't sleep properly. He told me to take some time off and try making the background score even more hard-hitting. I never expected my first Tamil film to be a Santosh Sivan directed drama-thriller. Though I was skeptical about the choice I was making, I would have regretted later. Inam is the kind of film a newbie might not get. I took it as a chance to bring all my strengths and match the vision of the story. Since love and war are my core areas, it was a lively experience to work. From the minute I saw Santosh sir's movie Halo, I've wanted to work with him. In regards, I hold him next to Mani Ratnam. 

 

He's the best producer you can get for the fact that he sees the goodness in everybody. He saw the advantages I had and we used to sit and jam together while composing. In like 40 minutes we would actually be ready with a song. And he being a trained singer, he doesn't hear a song. To the level of giving inputs on the final mix, he knows it all. Also being the producer, he understood our demands and catered to it all the time. He’s not an easy person to work with. You can't beat around with Siddharth. He is a thorough professional. 

 

The tunes were done and then we sat on the lyrical part of it. 

 

Shoot the Kuruvi- We wanted it to be a heart-warming soft-rock song musically. But lyrically we wanted it to be unique. The term 'Shoot the Kuruvi' seems to have a usage referring to love failure and the trick is that, there is no heroine in the film and glad that the inquisitiveness has worked. 

 

When Casanova talks about love making, Red-u Road-u is a rock n roll kind of a song and since Santhosh Narayanan was going to sing it, the song compelled us to write funny, satirical lyrics. Domer-u Lord-u is another quirky song where Vivek has handled a new agenda. With limitations because of the improving chord progressions, Vivek still managed to bring a lot of word play. The last and final song 'Shoot the Kili' has been written by Siddharth himself. Colloquial and simple lyrics with lot of juxtaposition, the film demanded us sitting and trying to create the so called term, different songs.