no good score can save a bad movie but a bad score can ruin a good movie says simon k king whose music for andrew louiss kolaigaran has come in for appreciation simon who had previously delivered the chartbuster yavvana in 2017 talks about his approach towards the score the criticism over the use of songs in the film and his upcoming projects excerptshow did you become part of kolaigaranactually i wasnt its music director initially after sathya despite yavvana becoming a chartbuster and the background score getting noticed i did not get any offers sathya itself was like a reentry for me after ainthu ainthu ainthu vijay antony was supposed to do the music for kolaigaran and he did work on it a little bit but he had acting commitments and couldnt focus on the music since ive worked with him previously in films like pichaikkaran saithan he suggested i take up this film andrew and i met and he narrated the story he had a clear idea about the music and once i saw the film i got an idea on how to approach the scorewhat was this approachsince the film had nonlinear narration i wanted to confuse the viewer with the score say if the characters are trying to portray the protagonist as a psycho id use a romantic piece to convey that he might not be so and i had this idea of doing a film where the theme piece is with three notes in music we classify films as event film and sequence film kolaigaran is an event film because everything revolves around an event this kind of approach will suit an event film so i decided to go with it the only problem is that audience might find it repetitive so the challenge was to use it in a way they dont feel so and i used it in various ways for murder for the cop for the hero to be frank the score is an exaggerated one at times overpowering the film is a crime drama but musically we wanted to treat it as a crime thriller because that will make it seem paciertalking about the theme we have had heard such minimal pieces in psycho and jaws did you think about those while composing this oneim a very big fan of bernard hermann who composed the psycho theme and john williams they are definitely big inspirations as i wanted to do something retro i used the idea of using a semichromatic string like in psycho in fact i showed a video where steven spielberg tells how he was unsatisfied with the footage of jaws and gave it to williams and asked him to do something to make it work williams had called him home and played a twonote piece on his piano and spielberg had thought he was kidding with him still he went along because he trusted williams and once he heard the orchestrated version he knew what had been missing