Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.

I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratchy record which he started [inaudible] brilliantly. "Oh I love that song." And when things go fine, it's good. So he started loving that song and that song was used quite a lot in the movie which is very granulated stuff on the guitar.

I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.

Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.