meet christopher burchell the national awardwinning sound artiste from bengaluru who has also composed the background score for karma takapas film ralang road that is representing india at the 52nd karlovy vary international film festival in czech republic the movie marks an indian entry in the prestigious festival after a gap of 13 years a painter by training christopher practices the art of sound and music by passion having worked on location audio recording and sound post production for a slew of creative projects chiefly short films documentaries and television series over the past 17 years christopher sort of masters the art of blending in his fine art traits while crafting music for cinematic ventures centered on a cold hill town in sikkim ralang road doesnt harp on the picturesque vistas of the region instead this mysterydrama follows the lives of four individuals who get entwined in a mesh of coincidences on a seemingly mundane day so how did this film happen to you this is the first featurelength film that i have composed music for i had previously worked with the director on an ftii project he roped me in when he started working on this film says christopher he adds we didnt follow a rulebook as such while working on the project more than focusing on a situation our attempt was to sustain an emotion something that contradicts the darkness the aim was to react to things from the audiences point of view not many know that christopher who studied at the citys ken school of art is also the countrys first national award recipient in the best onlocation sound recording category special mention for his work in a documentary titled remembering kurdi by saumyananda sahi christopher is currently working on illustrations for a graphic novelfilms christopher has scored music forchikka putta small things big thingsdirected by saumyananda sahichaidirected by gitanjali raoretour aux elmentsdirected by velu viswanadhanningal aranaye kando have you seen the aranadirected by sunanda bhatdistancedirected by ekta mittalindelibledirected by pavitra chalam