1:1.6 An Ode to Lost Love
I would call this a pan-Indian film. The story is about people connected with the film industry; you can call it a film within a film. It is about the relationships between a cameraman, a director, an actress and her mother. The protagonist, the cameraman called M (Atul Kulkarni), is a Malayali who works in the northern parts of India. The director in the film is a Bengali.
Other than background music, I also did the sound design of this film. Because it is a tragic love story, I used touching melodies. When the story of M moves into flashback, I used bi-tonal music, which means while one instrument plays one melody in one particular sruthi, another counterpoint melody can be heard from another instrument in another sruthi. These two melodies never meet, like the relationship of M in the flashback.
For the heroine of the film, I used Sivaranjini raga in flute, which is very Indian and haunting. In a dramatic scene, I played the Sivaranjini raga on the piano.
Unlike Kaya Tharan, here the music moves along with, and is not parallel to the story.