Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.
I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.
I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.
I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
Most of my writing work has been in film. I have done some TV, but most of it has been in film.
Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.