I'm putting down this post, mainly because, in a few days the sequence of events and our jam packed days will be superimposed by other such busy days and we will not be able to recall the fun we had with so much happening.
The film has its muhurat on the 23rd April. We started work on the film mid March. Things went along at a nicely busy pace. We did scratches of 3 other songs as well.
Then, about a week ago, 6 promos too had to be delivered. With the film, all we do is music. That is we think up chords, tunes, fills, bass lines, guitar parts, vocal parts and so on. Jayant Kaikini writes the lyrics. With the promos we shift modes. We think up scripts. With some humour, with some zing and of course the catch phrases. All the time, we also think of the genre of music which might work best for each promo. We told ourselves that we really can't do it.
As if to deny this feeling of breathlessness, we also had to oblige an old acquaintance, who wanted to us to compose a signature tune for a biggie politician, contesting the polls! So, now it was just too overwhelming.
We quietly sat down and started doing everything! We did 7 scratch tunes for the polls. Got huge stadium like crowds cheering for him on the recording. And finally, the client walked away pleased as punch. I just heard that both final signature tunes have had good response! We also worked on the promo scripts, got approval and are busy trying to produce the first cut for all of them.
Sunil, the choir director is leaving in 5 days time. So we needed him to finish our second song for the film. So, we put the lead singer's schedule for the Deepavali song on hold. We refused to worry about the 3 more promos we need to work on. Right now we are busy recording the choir. Thank god, when you listen to the lovely sounds of the choir coming together, you stop worrying for a while about all that you have to finish by the 24th of April!