kv anand talks to toi about his mostexpected kowhen i was in class 10 i was smitten by two professions drumming and photography as i grew up i became a freelance photojournalist and worked with many leading magazines before making it into movies starts off cinematographerdirector kv anand whose forthcoming film ko he says is a reflection of my life as a photojournalistthe filmmaker says that he brings into his movies elements inspired by incidents from his freelancing career a report in the times of india about smuggling gave me the spark to make ayan similarly i have incorporated in ko an experience that i had while i was covering a riot in thirupathur my camera was smashed by a mob and the roll got exposed he revealsanand continues even today i miss being a photojournalist so in ko instead of thrusting an aruva sickle in my heros hand i have armed him with a cameraanand reveals that he spent a good few days in bengaluru researching for his film i have a fair idea on what a photo editor does in a magazine but a newspaper scenario was new to me so i visited a newspaper office in bengaluru and spoke to the photo editors there i learnt about their work pattern only then did my writers suba and i sit together to work on the story and script i believe every film has to have logic so we have paid attention to even minute detailsremarkable locations have been one of the signature elements in anands movies anand believes that a films locations are as important as its script australia and switzerland have now become as common as gopichettipalayam and pollachi thats why i shot ayan in the grimy streets of tanzania and i believe that beauty is not just in greens and blues he explains and adds for ko my cameraman and i searched the internet spoke to tourism ministries and frequent globetrotters before settling on the locations where we wanted to film the audio launch of ko will be held by the second week of this month and anand is confident that the songs tuned by harris jayaraj will be superhits our combination had worked big time in ayan im sure we will repeat the magic once again he saysinterestingly anand took harris with him to locations so that he could get a feel of the situation when composing he composed the tune for ven paniye a romantic number in harbin china when it was snowing heavily outside the specialty of kos music anand concludes is in its variety theres hip hop melody rb and more he signs off follow us on twitter for more stories