it comes to aspiring musicians in india their one goal is to get their music into a film that in my opinion needs to change and it is slowly changingthe thing is that this aspiration of every musician in india to be a part of a film and get validation from the film industry needs to change musicians need to make music from the heart an artist like vincent van gogh when he made paintings he didnt go to the neighboring art galleries to see what everyone was selling or buying nor did he wait for somebody to pay him money to make his painting he painted whatever came from his heart and soul tomorrow when i want to know what kind of a person vincent van gogh was i am not going to read a book about him im going to look at his art and decide who he was because i believe his art reflected his personality and thats missing from the modern scenario because you have these composers and music directors in india who are heavily into gender equality heavily into society and parity and all of that and theyre making item songs regularly that dichotomy i believe is what happens in the movie industry im not saying that people shouldnt be a part of the movie industry i feel that there needs to be a balance the movie industry does not interest me unless theres a movie made with a strong social cause at its roothow many offers have you rejected from bollywoodin the last seven years since i won a grammy the numbers go into the hundredsyou have a film connection tell us something about your grandfather actor jankidasi was very close to my grandfather i was born in america and was there till i was 8 years old for the last 32 years i have been in bangalore but all my summer holidays were spent with my nanaji since the time i was born my mother would bring me and my brother to mumbai and wed spend a lot of time with my grandfather he was always the person who wanted to be the best in whatever he did when he was an olympic cyclist he was a gold medallist at the british empire gameshe was a character a very unique person and very good at talking he was very good at winning people over thats what i learned from him unless youre going to be excellent at something dont do it he proved that throughout his life as an olympic cyclist an actor and as a journalist he was the best in whatever he didsince youre based in bangalore how do you feel about the recent success of kannada cinema with kgf chapter 2 do you have an opinion about why telugu films are succeeding in making a mark with hindi audiencesone has to look at the movie industry as one indian movie industry rather than bollywood or south thats how the west