to get people married this wedding facilitator is a recurring motif in austens novels i just took that one step further id heard about this patiala maharaja who had gone and got two cats married and used that in a scene also this character helped me root major bala in that setting and establish that he also has a family what was the approach to the music with minsara kanavu you had come up with an album that won the national award what were the discussions like with ar rahman rahman had got three national awards by then and you cant plan for one so we didnt look at the music in that sense we had explored broadway and western music in minsara kanavu so we tried to explore music that was in a more indian more folk kind of a zone i knew that rahman had the ability to do great folk music and it was so beautiful im a great fan of rasathi thiruda thiruda and i used to tell him how that sound was so unique each of the songs has a history the first composition we did was the title song had you finalised the title by then the title was something that came out of kambaramayanam kanden kanden seethaiyai kanden that was the idea because for me it was about two women finding their life partners we went for kandukondain kandukondain i think it was during discussions with sujatha sir or vairamuthu sir that we came up with this idea lets continue with the songs and the stories behind them for the songs we went for key words that hadnt come before for kannamoochi yenada i wanted the kind of tamil that we see in papanasam sivan compositions like naan oru vilayaatu bommaiya thats how we got the line en manam unakkoru vilayattu bommaiya vairamuthu came up with kannamoochi yenada there is a lot of ka in the songs konjum mainakale kandukondain kandukondain for enna solla pogiraai i had taken references from pablo nerudas poems like this one where a man tells i love you to a woman not knowing that hell have to pass this exam day after day until the end of his life that was the time when i had also seen il postino and seen how romantic his life was this was before google so when you had to give a reference you had to source a painting or a book though he is seen as a revolutionary poet neruda had also written several love poems and i was very fascinated by some lines of his id read these translations of poems to vairamuthu and then he came up with the line illai illai solla oru ganam podhum illai endra sollai thaanguvadhendral innum innum enakkor jenmam vendum enna solla pogiraai enna solla pogirai was not just a man asking a question to his lady love but also reflecting on the pain of his love this hook line was very fascinating