Puneeth Rajkumar and V Harikrishna come together, for the ninth time, with Doddmane Hudga. The music man on the move between Chennai to Bengaluru for rerecording spoke to City Express and talked about composing for the Puneeth-starrer.
The album is to be launched tomorrow with the blessing of Sri Shivakumara swamiji at Tumakuru.
“When it comes to composing music for a Suri directorial, everything has to be done keeping in mind the subject and the hero. For Puneeth, only powerpacked songs will do,” says V Harikrishna, who has composed four tracks for the album.
“Suri, Puneeth and my combination worked for Jackie and Anna Bond, and created a lot of buzz with its music. Doddmane Hudga should be able to do the same,” he adds.
Among the four tracks, Abhimanigale Nammamanne Devru has been composed keeping in mind the fans of Puneeth and Kannada music. Then there is one sung in Hubbali style, another melody and a tapagunchi.
“There is also the background score, a Doddmane theme, which plays throughout the film,” he says.
The music director is all praise for Suri. “The best thing about working with Suri is his openness to new styles and willingness to weave them into his commercial plot. This gives scope for much creativity. Jackie, Kaddipudi and Kendasampige are the best examples,” says Harikrishna, adding, “even for Doddmane Hudga, I experimented for two songs and they were welcomed wholeheartedly by the director.”
Songs must excite people’s interest and Harikrishna has always been able to do that. “I usually take six months for an album, even from my very first film. I don’t keep songs ready to sell as a product as and when required to directors. A film’s strong point is its songs and they cannot be created to a schedule or to meet someone’s expectations,” he says. Harikrishna loves all aspects of filmmaking and considers music to be only a part of it.
He is glad for the lack of interference from the film’s team. “What I am told, I have always delivered. And the only two people who stay with us through the composing is the director, who narrates us the story, and the lyricist,” says Harikrishna. Composing is not time consuming, he says, and then there is always room for improvisation.
Harikrishna says that the background score will need to convey high drama during emotional scenes. “I have always tried to work with different styles for that effect,” he says.
There are new music directors coming up every day, but Harikrishna is unperturbed.
He says that he remains a student.
“I never will face the heat of the competition because I am busy learning from everyone,” he says. “Good music can come from a star or a newcomer, it is inspired by the subject.”
His favourites among newcomers are Poorna Chandra Tejaswi, B Ajaneesh Lokanath and Ravi Basrur.