How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool.

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

I wanted to be part of something bigger