veteran mridangist so there was no way out of that then i did some auditions and i found out that he was serious about the film a lot of people have a problem of concentration now concentration to think of the whole scene they act in bits and pieces so i told him no mobile phones no looking at the mirror i wanted him to be that character for that period of time and be invested in it people generally want to act well thats what i believe i had a great experience working with prabhudeva and arvind swami can i be somebody else for some time thats what actors are looking for if you give them an opportunity and guide them in a new way which is not trisha illa nayanthara in this case they will enjoy the processyou mentioned shooting the film with live sound what was the reason behind going for sync soundwhen i go to film festivals or watch foreign films i have a heightened sense of reality and something happens in dubbing people try to improve their performance the sound engineer would try to improve the recording for the sake of clarity but in real life we sometimes speak clearly sometimes roll over our tongues sometimes we are in a haste to speak lines we do not speak every word clearly that goes away in dubbing people tend to give equal power to every word i think dubbing pushes a film towards dialoguebaazi it turns the lines in your script into dialogue delivery and not like words falling out of peoples lips at that point of timedid your approach towards dialogues change because you were going for sync soundwe had very elaborate dialogues that were written everybody had to memorise those dialogues because if one says something different the other actor would get stumped but we also told the actors that there could be some changes during the shot and if they fit in well we will have them so there was that kind of flexibility but the pitch in which you deliver a line should be repeated in every angle so actors need to not only remember the continuity of their action but also of their voicewhat about the musical pieces are they also recorded livethere are some fourfive sections in the film which are absolutely live and youd be surprised by them everybody who was acting should know music if the scene involved six people jamming then those six people needed to know what it is once the audience sees a scene where the music sort of develops they buy into the concept but the songs were all perfectly composed in advance but for one song we have done some reverse engineering the song was recorded with the instruments we went and shot on location and then played the song back to the folk artistes who had recorded the song made them sing on that beat and at that sur and