How much do you think is the involvment of the director in terms of music?
I would say 100%. Music is one part of the film. Director is the captain of the ship. The captain knows what he wants. He has a view of his scene and he knows how music should support it. Then it is the responsibility of the music director to aptly support the visual content. If Sekhar asks me for a fast beat, I have to do it. If he wanted a formula type album with 2 beat songs, one folk and one rock song, I will do it. In fact, I did such kind of album too. People even wondered if I was the one who composed the music. Some times you got to do it. Though I did what is required for Anand, I consider it only 50-60% justified. It still bugs me that there is so much else needed. Probably that is the key factor making me compose tunes better and better. Is it tune for lyrics or lyrics for tune? It works either ways (laughs). It depends on the understanding and coordination between the lyricist, director and music composer. Which way is easy? It is the same either ways. Most of my compositio
