 hello hi hello hey how are you very good very good thank you so much for coming on we are big admirers of your work we've seen a ton of your your work as well heard it i suppose but i want to thank you for coming on because we're really big fans of your talent first off i want to start off by asking um how how'd you become a musician when did you know that you wanted to become a musician so go all the way back to your childhood probably yeah i think i was in 10th class 10 uh and then standard right and i was giving my we have board exams i was giving my my board exams and the geography was the subject that i was studying and we was to we live in a society where the small rooms we should live in small rooms and we should be called a child system uh just a few rooms par i heard a sound while i was studying geography preparing myself for the exam next day i heard a sound it was very very fascinating it was it was like uh i was very intrigued to know what that sound is i left everything i walked towards that room and i went then i saw a bunch of my friends in the society who were fidgeting and playing with some instrument and that instrument was this this small box which had an electronic plate on it with the pencil attached and you hit that pencil on that plate and the sound came and i was like what the hell is this i've never seen anything like this that that did something inside me that moment of course there were like a lot of guys in the room eight ten guys in the room i thought wow i get to see it i'm lucky i get to see this new thing and i'll go back to study i went back to my room started studying and after a few days after my exams were over and out the few days i don't know how that thing came in my house landed in my house one of my friends came and dropped it and said uh we are not able to figure out what is this you want to try if you want to jam with this go ahead and that that was a day that was a day for me everything started uh from that point every time musically i was so glued on to it i was so hooked on to that thing day day in day out like for hours and hours to sit on it practice figure out learn uh hit the pencil create songs play known songs or or create my own tunes and stuff like that so that i was like so you got started late in life and in terms of yeah oh that's so interesting and then at what point did it go from this um this passion that you had for it and this interest that obviously was like this hobby but i don't even want to call it a hobby it was really a obsession as it is for most people who get into music then then what was the what did you start to envision did you start to envision yourself as being uh this all-inclusive composer who can write pop songs and do scores for films and sing or did you have a particular thing you thought okay i'm gonna do that uh uh i said no nothing like that i had i was i always believed in going with the flow wherever life takes me although we all didn't believe in not a big bigger i'm not a big fan of planning things uh this is the way i would like to go but then when i was in college after then standard i finished my school good example i thankfully i passed geography was also fine marks were fine and yeah and then i went to college and in college i in the first year near my near my uh near the very close to the area of my where my college was there was this band performing in the evening and it was an english band called aqua flow and they were playing uh all international english songs at that time the proper band i got fascinated by not by the singer but i was like intrigued by knowing what there are these people behind it doing what these guys do how do how does this person know this particular note to play or this is this is the rhythm or this is the groove this is the why how these i was all into the guys behind uh the singer and and that like i was crazy behind uh uh the idea of knowing what the arrangement of the music is of the cooperation there are the all those things that are behind the singer that kind of really fascinated me a lot and it till date it does till date in 30 years into this and still it uh excites me oh wow and did you you didn't start singing until that time as well or what no i was never into singing never i was never into singing when singing never interested me actually see actually speaking usually when you see you're a song the first thing that any anybody's would hear is a singer yeah of voice of a singer but for me it was opposite when i hear a song i only heard the composition only heard the arrangements uh the instruments and everything that's that was my your got tuned to that i guess so yeah maybe that's the reason why did you train your did you train your voice after you started to get into it because you're a phenomenal singer so it's just no i have i'm not a trained singer uh i i while creating while composing music for films i used to sing my scratch scratches myself uh to present it to directors and producers so while doing that little bit little bit i learned while on the job so i got i guess that made me a singer but now i'm not a trained not a trained singer nor do i call myself a proper singer because there are some amazingly phenomenal singers in the industry so yeah i'm okay i disagree and i you you also um i know you like to challenge yourself like for example doing an album where the score is going to be american jazz and you've never done jazz before so i know you love those kind of challenges that's as far as the work obviously you are very eclectic yet you still have a thing that specifically sounds like you when it comes to what you listen to yourself is there a particular genre you like more or do you just listen to anything and everything you know guys the the thing is bollywood as an industry as a film as a film industry and as a the same time music industry is it is so i would i don't know how to say this but for a composer in bollywood if you want to be want to be a composer in bollywood you have to be versatile you have to be knowing different styles and genres because what subject will come and hit you you don't know uh so just for example as you correctly said jazz jazz i'm not a jazz musician i have i have no knowledge or no training in jazz as such but then a filmmaker like andhra kashab comes and tells me that you have to now jump into this territory and i making a film is based on jazz it's a proper old school big band jazz so so then you start learning i started learning that i started listening to a lot of jazz music a lot of you know a lot of you know jazz you know standard jazz and masters of 50s and 60s era started listening to that diving deep every day i should only listen to jazz and that's how i could create a little bit whatever i've created i don't know but i created that but yeah so that's what bollywood pushes you to do yeah you have to go as a tile otherwise uh you have to say no and you don't want to get work is that something uh because a lot of actors will look for different roles that they've never done before is that something you do with uh score like uh movies as well you look for something yes a challenge that you've yet to do is that something that's important to you to be different yes yes every time like after bamba velvet the similar thing happened in andhra dune andhra dune while i was creating the piano pieces the piano pieces were the first thing we must why is my corona plays a pianist so i had uh i'm a decent piano player i'm not like a pro pro i'm not like all kinds of blazing i'm a decent i can play fine but here the this guy is a pro this particular guy he's a he's a great piano player he's a blind but he's a fantastic piano player and he's a classical musician so that was like a full again once again full study full again going back listening to classical music uh mojad and bitter women uh so he's now this is equivalent of the film so from jazz i'm jumping to bitter women the these genres right so it's it's very difficult it's very difficult but that's the challenge that i enjoy yeah let's see how how one can uh how much i can do how much i can you know give a giveaway and luckily i was able to do it because whatever pieces i created for the andhra dune were very well appreciated and directors loved it loved it yeah aishwan playing it it's it's a musicians for thought it's sounding authentic so oh wow i i thought chalo yeah it's fine i'm doing it fine yeah yeah well we we had seen a piece where you were talking about the experience of working on the the film with anya ragan and and immersing yourself in jazz and i've always wanted to ask someone and you were the perfect person to ask when corbett and i first started to hear indian classical music our first impression of it having no knowledge of it was man it seems like this is similar to jazz in terms of being free flowing but having structure and we've learned recently about ragas and the fact that they have these really intricate three fold structures but there's this freedom where we write is is that comparable i know they're very different in terms of modality and western music instrument but is there a similarity to the expressiveness as a musician and an artist with jazz and say indian classical or is that just what we're hearing and we're way off this there is uh there is a i i believe there's a huge difference here with jazz you it's here it's way way more expressive in terms of uh notes it's open it's free you are in fly in that but with indian classical there are ragas which you have to stick to those stick to those notes right you cannot move if it's a uh if one rag has only five notes right many rags are there many rags that have just only five notes so you uh for the authentic classical in indian classical uh raga uh if you want to perform a classical piece you can't go out of those five those five notes if you are performing for 30 minutes for those 30 minutes whatever you can showcase in with those five notes is your expertise is your uh that's the magic that one can create and there are some crazy amazing indian karnatic classical artists in the country that they just do it brilliantly amazingly whereas jazz i would i would say is opposite that's free you can go anywhere from from any rag to any notes to any chord you can just fly it's right right right that that difference is there but as you said the expression wise feeling wise they both give you that euphoria they would give you that that feeling yeah yeah awesome uh you've worked in many different industries um is there a challenge or is it just a language that's that's the difference between the different industries or is there a difference in the music that you have to put out uh of course language is the challenge yeah language definitely is the challenge i have done this queen uh the four films for all for all the south regions yeah so four south regions like telugu, tamil, malayalam and kanada yeah all four uh i did with queen of course i did syrah and v that's only was that was only telugu this particular film had four different regions eight songs each which made it 32 songs of a language i have no idea i have no idea so that was a bit tough to do 32 songs of a language which we have which is really alien to you so obviously music is the biggest language here that's what i speak that language the only a language i know how to speak so there were writers there were writers there were directors they were what do you call those people god um i got this next shit translators yeah translators all those people a lot of people helped me out in that i was able to do it and i'm very very happy that i was able to cross you know that challenge as well because that was really challenging for me yeah then these people helped me there's all these amazing people helped me out and i'm so looking forward to more now more south indian or any language rather any language yeah and i'm sure i'm sure you've been asked this question a lot um because it's been like a focal point when people look at your career we've talked with anurag and we know from his own words that he only works with people that he trusts how did you get involved with dev d that was your first project working with anurag kashya yeah so how did you get involved and then what was that process like because we love anurag and feel like he is the quintessential artist who's willing to take risks uh so we'd love to hear about that yeah i love him too absolutely absolutely right uh shilpa rao is a common friend between me and anurag shilpa rao is a great singer i must have heard her yeah she had met anurag plasher sir in a festival film festival there's a mommy film festival that happens every year uh in bombay she met her there and got talking and he asked her you know somebody because i'm looking for a new sound and a person who can do uh there's music for this new film that i'm doing which is which is dev das i'm looking i'm i'm reimagining dev das so i want someone new for this particular film so do you know somebody so shilpa said yes i was jamming a lot with shilpa at that time she used to jam a lot during those days because she said i'll introduce you to she took me to sir's house anurag sir's house and he i played him my stuff and he really liked it whatever he heard he really loved it so he uh spoke to me about this film gave me a brief narration of what this what he's going to do with this dev das and uh and then set me free and let me go he said go and do whatever you he does that he always just lets you be just let you be so i took i took off and i took six months to create music of the dev uh around six songs like like it took me six six months to do only six songs i only could manage to do six songs for six months wow yeah and after six months i called him and i said i have something uh yeah i don't know who is my first film first time i'm dealing with a filmmaker uh for a film as a film composer so i was a little very very nervous very very nervous because i didn't know where would they would mistake me yeah i was scared i called him i asked him please come to the studio he came with vikaz bhai because bhai was the producer of dvd because bhai is now very successful director himself he's done queen and super 30 and a lot of things yeah uh so they both came in the studio and i played my first track and i was shivering i was actually very scared and then i played i had the i have uh my heartbeat was like full pulsating quick time yeah uh i the first song got over and i looked at looked at them looked at their reaction and they were blown away yeah they were blown away i was like wow this is amazing you have anything else yeah i have five more that's awesome keep playing bring it on bring it on i heard it playing they love he loved all five so much that exactly without any change it's there in the album exactly the way it is uh it he's taken it in the album and uh i was like wow and that's yeah that's where everything started yeah he told me so you are in the film you've got the film come tomorrow come for the narration proper full narration and let's get going and then yes great story that's a great story yeah did were you the one that came up with Nawaz dancing like Elvis is that was that uh it's all his idea so yeah we know we know um obviously on your ag is a very different director in terms of letting artists just do what they they want to do but in terms of other directors how does a note because we're actors so we know that the pitch meeting directors normally give to actors but what's a normal pitch meeting to get you involved with the film of a of a director are they more usually more do they have a specific thing they want uh or what what's the whole pitch meeting like for for getting you on as a composer so um each character has the each director has a different taste yeah they have their own taste in music so what i would what i have done for Anurag Kashyap not necessarily the other person for the director would like that style yeah right i have that the one has to read that you know to understand that so i have to again uh dig you know dive deep and understand his with his brain oh what is his vision what is he looking at so he will say so different directors have their taste according to their taste one has to deliver that's another another challenge that i keep facing every now and then till date till date yeah that's the thing because every person has their own way of looking at things yeah so yeah so they you're a particular the pitch comes like the year of films work whatever for work that i've done they like it and they come to me i've loved i've loved your this work of this film that you have done i want you to compose for music for my film but when they start doing music for their film you realize oh his his requirement and his taste is different so it keeps changing yeah how did you we've um seen many things from coke studios yeah everything we've seen from coke studios is beautiful yeah we're particularly impressed with how well the live sessions are mastered and produced for the video because that's not an easy thing to do it's a completely different animal when you have a live audience you're making for versus a studio two questions about coke studios just wondering how you got involved and then second is it as wonderful to be involved with that process as it seems because it looks like it's just this majestic beautiful artistic time for everybody involved yeah absolutely perfect what you said is exactly that it's exactly that because it's not i'm i'm fortunate and lucky that i've got to work with this amazing bunch of extremely talented musicians and artists that i work with in coke studio and that energy of each and every person out there made that experience so majestic and beautiful that i still cherish it and i wish that we can bring it back somehow but it i don't know what's happening but those two seasons that i did i had a best time of my life what a beautiful experience working on coke studio because that's that is something that you don't usually get to do because i'm a film composer i'm a primarily a film composer my mind starts working when i hear a situation when i hear a story or a narration or a some sort of vision for the director that my mind starts working that way but here it's a completely open space when i'm the director i have to take a call on what kind of music i want to what expression i want to put out so that was a new and a beautiful experience for me every liberating experience uh and uh yeah so we did two seasons and you as you're correctly whatever you said is exactly that the feeling is still the same yeah uh yeah we love coke studios coke studios is brilliant because i i want to tell you guys is that thank you thank you for i've i've seen all the videos uh that you guys have reacted to oh really and and i was so i've always and i always put a smile on my face whenever i see you guys because you are very very positive and uh vibrant energy you both you both have got the way you react to the music i just love it i just love it thank you all of that thank you so much but and shawdri i think recently you did radhe also yesterday or yeah yeah today yeah this yeah this week yeah uh there was amazing that shawdri uh you guys did a few days back from coke studio yeah so yeah so thank you thank you thank you for the oh thank you amazing reaction thank you for the music yeah that's um so i want to we we're big fans of vishal bardwash who is a famous composer composer gone director do you have any aspirations to do a similar transition into some style of directing or anything like that or do you no no okay i don't know not yet no yeah not yet a lot there's lots to learn and do in music itself so yeah i don't want to get distracted yeah i would love to there are ideas that keep uh coming story ideas it happens they come in my mind but then i don't go in that direction because is it it will be static from my main job yeah sure sure yeah and you you just mentioned a moment ago that one of the things that triggers inspiration for you is when you're given the vision of what the film's gonna be and that immediately gets the wheels rolling um songwriters have different sources for inspiration and like i know you've written songs that have happened in one day and then sometimes it takes months for a song um is is there um like actors have a process but i don't think a lot of people understand that songwriters and musicians also have a process aside from being given the project and now you have this idea that's structured what are some of the other things that inspire you to write so yeah it's a very good for me it's literally having fun in life traveling meeting my best friends or friends and people who i like drinking with them talking rubbish talking bullshit uh partying dancing i don't know just being happy mentally in a very very happy and positive space that inspires me to actually uh and after all that when i once i go and sit in front of my computer or piano or a keyboard top top top things just happen yeah so uh it's for me i don't know everybody has their own way of uh finding inspiration but these things really help me a lot yeah uh yeah yeah well it it shows um i know corbin's going to ask you a question but you're the fact that you said having fun i think i said it in our last reaction to your music you've said that as well as in rather that it sounds so happy the music sounds so happy yes yes yeah yeah that's my that that's the internal uh i want to i have to get into that uh you internally i have to feel that way i have to feel that way yeah well it comes across all of yours i've added songs of yours to to playlists not just because they were so good musically but because there was this essence about them and the closest thing i could compare it to is when i've listened to the music of the Beatles the stuff of paul mccartney has this optimism in it all the time yeah and you have that trait and it's one of my favorite things about you as an artist yeah thank you thank you thank you so much um i want to ask you what do you think in your opinion is your best work i have said this before i think i i don't think i've said it in the interview anyway outside but i've told my friends and all and my friends my family they believe it my best work that i've done it's not really yet oh i had done it in 2010 with uh uh the director called always hosane the mf mf hosane the famous painter who's okay no more his son mf hosane's son mf hosane's son's uh mf hosane sir was producing it and his son was directing name is always hosane so i did a film with him back in 2010 for para sitara and oh boy i just love that album all right i hear it now and i think i have i made this not a possible and i love it it's beautiful i think that's my best work and it's not going oh man is it just is it just stuck in is it just stuck in production no he's i guess he's lost interest in the project i have to speak to him it's been 10 years it's been 10 years now and yeah if he doesn't do the project he's just let you release that release the album yeah absolutely i'm gonna i i'm gonna do that i'm gonna call him and the students ask me at least yeah because now i have my own label eight years out yeah i can bring yeah we'll start up we'll start a petition get that uh get that album released yeah i have i have kind of a related question that's based on the stuff that you've done is there anything you haven't done like for example there was a day you had never done American jazz and you've got the opportunity are there any other things you've yet to try that you're like man i would love to try that someday oh yeah rap yeah yeah electronic electronic electronic yeah i'm absolutely electronic hard to electronic and rap you did it he did you did some of it and oh the bunjab a little bit yeah yeah that way but i want to go all out yeah yeah that was up on yeah you're right about that interesting yeah i can like how like how the gully boys yeah that's what i was thinking of i was like i bet you would have loved to have been involved with gully boy i would love love some yeah do something like that uh kind of actually can i actually have you move your camera over a little bit right no like that like that other way other way right there because when you lean forward yeah when you lean forward i don't get to see your face anymore and we want no worse um off topic question your gujrati correct yeah did you we just watched our first gujrati filmed about a week or so ago it was hello hello hello hello did did you watch it yeah okay okay did you did you enjoy it yeah i love it i love that and totally what other gujrati films should we watch we have that's the only one we've seen uh i've seen a lot the gujjubhai uh gujjubhai most wanted it's a very funny out-and-out comedy film okay gujjjubhai gujjubhai as a series so that's amazing uh then gold gold kerry gold kerry is a film called gold kerry it's a beautiful film there are a lot of gujrati films and by the way i am my first film gujrati film we'll be releasing next year oh really most excited about that i'm most excited about it's a musical it's a proper musical oh good wonderful wonderful yeah that was another that was another question we had was you know we we not only love what you've done and we know we still have stuff to hear that you that you've done from the past but we wanted to know what's coming up that we and the whole stupid family here would want to know you're excited about and we can pay attention to obviously that's one of those things yeah that film gujrati film i'm very excited about that very very excited because it's a it's a it's a romantic film but it's very musical music drives the film so i'm very happy to have uh gotten that film as my debut film gujjrati that's wonderful uh so the um i know your favorite composer is uh ayo roman obviously right how does it feel that a lot of people now consider you in this same conversation with your hero or your your uh your idol in in composing how does that how does that feel yeah i i do get that a lot a lot since the beginning i've been getting that it feels definitely it feels great but i know personally uh that there's only one there is only one yeah that it cannot be another one ever uh because as a musician i regard him way uh it beyond everything he's like uh what do you call a guru god figure for me so yeah it feels great that people are uh say such things but uh for me he's there's only one there's only one they anybody is and what advice would you give to uh up and coming composers who you are now they're a roman you're their inspiration right what what advice would you give to anybody specifically you know like you said you can do a lot of things creatively but your real focus and foundation isn't isn't scoring and doing music for film so if there's someone watching you who wanted to get into film wanted to do scoring what advice would you give them to take that path uh to do a to compose for the film yeah if they wanted they said i wanted i want to compose for film just like just just like you do and and that's the career i want to have i is one has to completely hundred percent you know give everything uh invest totally until you invest yourself uh no distraction left you just just like be like this and stay true and honest to what you're doing to the crowd uh that's where i guess uh because that's what i have done i have only look i have not seen anywhere else just this this is my being my one one focus and vision all my life and very very passionate i'm very very passionate about composing for films any new film that i get get and i be very excited like a kid a jump and if it's a great story a challenging subject it just gives me a high which is like as good as no any yeah yeah yeah i get so that that passion that drive one needs to have that craziness one needs to have and that one that's a lot of sacrifice it's also you have to forget a lot of things you have to discard a lot of things from your life yeah focus here it's it's not that easy yeah yeah so i've done that yeah all my life i've done that so i've missed out in initial stages i've lost out on many friends of mine because i could never give them time i invested so much of 14 to 16 hours a day i've invested for months and years together so that kind of dedication one has to put in so that i have done and yeah so that the advice i would give yeah so obviously ott platforms are huge now is that something that you're looking into or do you do you just want to stick to film or because what's your opinion on on working on a project like that i i am doing two two series now are you yes yes i am like uh sorry yeah no you're good you're good you're good yeah uh bull bull was one film that i did my debut film on netflix the otd my first film was bull bull oh yeah yeah yeah yeah no it has only had no songs that was just a score yeah that's got that and now i have gotten a lot of offers for series yeah yeah different but series also they're series so i'm doing two of them is it any different than uh doing a movie or is it just a longer process it's a longer process yeah same thing as the everything remains the same but the length and the process is quite long yeah movies you are dealing with 120 minutes yeah max 150 minutes 160 minutes maximum your use it goes 350 minutes and beyond also so yeah longer length the process yeah is it also when it comes the difference between the two like we've talked to actors and we know as actors the difference is creatively when you're working on a film versus working on a series and one of the universal things actors will talk about the preference of a series versus a film is the length of time you get to investigate and be this character yeah uh it obviously has some of the the side effects of these tighter time constraints as a composer do you uh see also a similarity whereas with a film you have this 120 minutes and it's done and you're you're over versus a series is a long time and you have certain you could write more themes for characters and you could express it and live in the show or is it not a fair comparison uh it's for honestly would be very early for me to say that because I've just uh uh started working on this particular series for amazon playing and I'm just three songs down so far okay and there are around 10 songs 10 episodes every episode has a song it sounds kind of musical uh so I've just just started doing three songs and this coronavirus outbreak happened and lockdown happened everything got shut everything they were they were supposed to shoot in march april uh and I had done those three songs 10 and since then everything is on hold yeah so nothing has moved uh forward so I am I'm still yet to you know understand how uh how I would approach and do this series yeah yeah yeah it's a new world it's a new completely new world for me yeah as of now um so I know you have a particular fondness obviously for air romans old um scores obviously like bombay uh or roja or some stuff like that um and I know you love like old school bollywood music and you think that was like the golden years what's your opinion on current bollywood music outside of your own um what's your what's your opinion on the on the differences now current as in the past two three years the trend are you talking about the remix is a remake yeah that's yeah that's what it is so yeah that's not that's very not very healthy yeah it's not enough that's not a good place to be in so it's a very very bad situation and this should stop yeah remaking the old songs in the current films that's what you're talking about right yeah yeah that's what the current bollywood trend is that yeah the majority of the films are every every film at least will have one or two remixes or remakes it is not very encouraging yeah and not a good sign for the industry on a whole in general right so I hope that ends soon and thankfully this coronavirus and lockdown situation has put a good hold on it past four five months no there is peace and shanti yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so I just hope it continues yeah now I know early in your career you did correct me if I'm wrong you did some music for live theater as well correct yes yeah now was that pre-recorded things that they played or did you actually have a small band or an orchestra that was there for each show uh boot I've done both yeah I've been and is that no sorry go ahead yeah yeah so you know another beautiful experience of my life just three four years I've spent that in theater theater industry and what a beautiful experience because so much to learn there's so much I got to learn from there and the whole idea of composing music for a screenplay that the whole idea I learned from theater and because there are no visuals there it's just the there are nothing only script and only story that you have uh you have to go away at the most you get to see rehearsals of the actors who rehearse and you see some rehearsals see the scenes how they have been uh enacted and it's only one all in one room just that's one stage everything is happening in one stage so you have to imagine and compose music as per the proceedings of the story and the characters now that is amazing amazing experience a lot of lot lot to learn from them yeah yeah and so besides a raman current or older who are the other composers that inspire you as an artist I think I I think I love everybody's work each and every composer that we have they have they have something really unique and special uh and I love everybody's work like that starting from Preetham the Shankar is on life and a huge Shankar is on life and Vishal Bharadwaj as you guys mentioned fantastic composer filmmaker uh Vishal Shekhar a great friends great buddy and amazing beautifully beautifully amazing composers Salim Suleiman Sachin Jigar Mithun I love Mithun's compositions and beautiful compositions so there are some I think everybody who's working and creating music is has something beautiful and unique in them and I I I love uh their compositions he makes me I love he makes me as compositions I just love it so I guess the whole I I am a lot of lot of people are there why who inspire me every now and then and I I have another I have another question about your process as a composer and a writer obviously this this might change if it's just a standalone song or if you're doing background music but do you have a particular way you go about writing do you go down and sit at the piano is it the synth is it just you've got the melody in your head and you're writing words down or is it just change and you just go with whatever inspires you I just go with whatever inspires me I just go with whatever inspires me and uh I said as I said earlier if I'm traveling if I'm doing some really fun stuff in life then everything starts just everything starts moving in my head yeah queen I remember for queen uh when I was at to score the music for the queen yeah director the makers specifically took me and Anvita Anvita that the lyric writer to Paris to Amsterdam because they were doing the recce there to the film major portion of the what the films were shot in Paris and Amsterdam so they just took us along usually no composers or lyric writers would be taken for recce film recce yeah no work but then they just said come and tag along man and I had so much fun but then those 10 days we didn't know I didn't do anything I didn't even think about music I didn't even think about music no come I forgot I was a composer I forgot it on because I was having such good fun such good fun such amazing time you know traveling going around seeing Amsterdam seeing Paris Eiffel Tower everything wow this beautiful experience and I came back and then we went to Goa after that me and Anvita that's it in six days the eight song albums were done five five five days the whole album was done so that's the that's what happens with me I have have to be in that happy good space in life it shows in your music man it's it's really incredible well I want to thank you so much for talking to us I want to finish off by doing a little rapid fire questions here so you just answer there nothing nothing too serious at all it's just little fun questions so coffee or chai chat favorite alcoholic beverage if you drink alcohol wine oh what i don't know if it fits in the alcohol it does favorite hollywood film my god so many yeah only one like you can you can name a couple yeah god okay okay I'll talk I'll just go to my childhood because as a child when I was growing up and I was very small I think about 10 11 year old and I saw Jurassic Park was my first impression of a hollywood film as such when I was a kid and that blew me away and that stayed with me till date so I have seen all the the humans feel like people have become like the dirty director for me yeah I think then so he's my favorite too oh yeah favorite uh hollywood composer hanzimmer hanzimmer that makes sense uh there's so many uh favorite indian film any region or one yeah however however many you can name 10 if you want oh very difficult to um again I will go back to you know because when you child when you're growing up there those become your impressionable years and so uh laghan and satya was I was again laghan and satya the two films that I saw uh while I was growing up that for me those were the best films that I've grown up because that was from my from my from my age uh those films I was about 10 12 year old again once again uh 10 12 year old and I saw these amazing films and they became my favorites both of those are incredible films great movies um yeah uh your favorite hollywood actor I such a I I've never had any favorite actors or actresses in my life no other hollywood or bollywood I don't know why because I've been always since uh since I was a child I'm fascinated by musicians okay a raman would be my hero hanzimmer would be my hero zakhiru sahb would be my hero I don't know never gotten into very hero heroines or actors or actors but there are some amazing talent out there who do great work um um brat bait hoge then uh I I recently saw this film uh with brat bait and areya who I think tune in there and he knows the latest film uh well once upon a time and how once upon a time uh I thought how can I forget that uh titanic heroes name how how how how how can I forget that leonard de caprio leonard de caprio yeah ha ha ha ha ha just no it's just got blank so yeah I love his work I love his work I've seen the revenant also he was an incredible actor a lot of his films are amazing and such a great actor uh what instrument are you most prolific in uh piano piano not prolific prolific I'm okay gotcha who's the greatest piano player of all time oh my god the jazz chick korea maybe yeah check for chick korea the jazz musician uh and I think yeah one of the finest uh and yeah there are many actually I can't think of many names I know but chick korea would be one cool and the greatest guitarist of all time uh one of them is Tommy Emanuel I again I was growing up and I've heard his playing tabling it's terrific terrific of course Steve Vai is out there yeah we're amongst mom's team that uh and then uh I forgot his name he's a bald guy bald guy I don't why am I forgetting names today so much I've learned and uh heard the music and I'm forgetting the names it's really terrible I'm so sorry about that that's okay they they usually perform together I've seen when Steve Vai was your Joe Satriani oh yeah Joe Satriani yeah gotcha yeah terrific terrific guitar please well I want to thank you so much for talking to us man it's been it was a pleasure uh it was a wonderful conversation and we admire your talents so so much um and what you bring to films is so so beautiful and the fact that it's obviously a lot coming from the fact that you just like to have life experiences and be happy and it just shows in your music uh and we really really appreciate that about you um so thank you thank you Rick Rick go ahead yeah yeah the same thing we went from being introduced to you and recognizing your talent first and foremost an appreciating talent and then the more we were exposed to your music like I said earlier the the definitive thumbprint that's placed upon the talent that is the the positivity and optimism that comes out is made you for us one of the most exciting composers that's out there and we you know there's actors if we hear that Nawaz and Sadiki's in a film or you name several actors we're like okay we're gonna go see the movie if we hear that you are involved musically on a film we want to see it just because you're involved so we are big fans we're rooting for you we want to know everything you're doing and wish you nothing but the best thank you thank you so much that's really really nice of you and uh I as I said earlier also I really really love and enjoy seeing your videos uh I've seen not only mine my reactions of course you've done a lot of my songs but others others work as well I uh I see whenever it whenever I see you guys featuring on my timeline I just just click it and I go and I enjoy it so so is it safe to say that you would technically then be a stupid baby you'd be part of the stupid family absolutely absolutely so keep up that because that what I really enjoy uh what you guys is the same thing that with the in this lockdown in this it's actually very in the environment right now especially in this country is very negative yeah here's you yeah shushan sing and coronavirus and yeah all sorts of only we get to your only bad things yeah but the past six months I have seen whenever I come across your videos and you guys talking about there's so much positivity and there's so much hope which I feel hope there are people who are happy that's how we feel about you yeah that's beautiful in these times also you you need that you need that energy you know here is uh to feed off because you know how it is what's good yeah thank you thank you for doing all these things thank you for working so amazing thank you so much and let's get that album out as well so yeah from the from the film we'll we'll call him tomorrow i'm gonna call him director good thank you man you have a great day all right thank you