when iranian musician alaa wardi uploaded a capella versions of a few popular bollywood songs a while ago on youtube they became instantaneous hits recently malayalis also got a taste of mollywood music in a capella style thanks to budding singer soumya sanathanan she fashioned the popular song thumbappoo kattil in a capella and the video of her performance was generously complimented by many including composer m jayachandran soumya who has also sung in a few films speaks to us about the creative process feedback and morebouquets brickbats and more after all the hard work it is wonderful to experience a bit of recognition for my work it is the videos of iranian musician alaa wardi that urged me to try something similar in regional music though singer vidhu pratap had also recently released an a capella video he has tried it on an original song while my work shows how it can transform a muchheard track its been almost a year since i started with this project with my friend and musician aneeshthumbappoo was chosen to as it is neither too new nor an old track and its a popular peppy number moreover its instrumentation is capellafriendly we first recorded the song followed by its chords base and bgms i have not remixed it at all there are no changes in the first and second bgms as well the sounds of many instruments like guitar keyboard flute and different sounds of drums are some of the tones i reproduced for the song though almost 20 tones were presented some of which were produced by tapping on my shoulders i did not include them all in the video fearing negative comments alaa wardis video however shows a variety of such sound productions too the process was strenuous especially while editing and syncing examining them frame to frame and checking out the video over and again for months together was a real test on patience adding to it was the numerous questions that i had to answer about what i have been working on for such a long time laughs however the sweet taste of recognition erases them all i am quite thankful to my parents and daughter neelambari playback singer pv preetha keyboardist babu jose audio mixer anil arjunan and video editor sujith without whom i could not have done the video i was really happy when m jayachandran sir applauded my efforts that said all kinds of feedback are coming in some have accused me of imitating alaa wardi though i have clearly said he is my inspiration im an artiste who tries to explore her horizons thats how i look at the processmusic is everything music has been everything for me though my family has no such inclinations this is why i pursued higher studies in music despite scoring high marks first rank and record marks came my way while graduating from kerala university and i could retain the rank at the pg level too as