[arr] Rakeysh Mehra on how AR cracked the BGM

[ramakrisha laxmana subramanian siva gopala acharya iyer .aiyooo amma idli wada dosa sambar chatni .]

Isn't A.R. Rahman making your job tough by not being there in the
crucial and a critical stage of the films release?  Rahman called me
half an hour after he received the award at the BAFTA's and said, "I am
feeling so guilty by not being there. Anything you feel irritated about
the background score, just change that". He just returned last night
from the U.S. He landed in Chennai, was talking to his engineers and was
so worried about the music of Delhi 6. In fact, the background score is
much better than the songs in Delhi 6. Background is the film. What we
tried for the background was that we didn't score for the shot. We just
sat and spent the whole month of December and not a single sound came
out. Everybody was getting worried. Then Rahman won the Golden Globe,
came back and he again sat and bits and bits happened. At one point, I
and Rahman were discussing to postpone the release date of Delhi 6. We
still couldn't crack the background. So we decided to crack theme on the
subject of the film. Not on some particular scene. Rahman went into a
different world all together after that. He played all the instruments
that were available to him and just went for it. He came up with ten
themes and at one point we were confused of what to use. He is a true
magician. When we put the theme with the scenes it would start and end
perfectly. Can you believe it?