composer mikku kavil is excited to be working with young talents for sunil somans road movie titled 103 km its not often that a young music director gets to work with 22 singers in four languages for his very first film project but composer mikku kavil seems to have hit the lucky note to land the mega project the 25yearold is excited to be working with young talents for sunil somans road movie titled 103 km that is simultaneously being shot in malayalam tamil hindi and telugu it was a great challenge and being my first film i couldnt have asked for a better platform to prove myself says mikku who landed the gig after the producers noticed his album the singers of the film all of whom are malayalis include a young team comprising muthuchippi poloru singer sachin warrier sangitha sreekanth of chattakari fame and reality show winners najim arshad sonia and rahul laxman we started off with two songs in malayalam written by rahul soman the initial plan was to translate it to the other languages while following the same tune however the production company was keen on including a sufi number and an item song for the other languages to boost the audio rights mikku says the music director says while he thought it would be a tough task in the beginning the job was easier once they completed the initial malayalam version for the other languages we just had to make slight modifications to account for the modulation and tone the singers too were selected based on their comfort level in different languages he explains incidentally the cast of the film too had to adjust with the nuances of the languages as each scene is being shot in four different languages instead of dubbing it its actor and producer faizal hamza says the team has roped in scriptwriters who have worked in other industries to do the translation of the script you might think that it would often be repetition of the scene in four languages but its not there are lines in malayalam for which a simple action would suffice in hindi but the toughest language we had to deal with was telugu because you are voicing more words in malayalam and you also have to get the intonation and the expression right he says