Santhosh Narayanan on creating authentic sound palettes and finally starting his own YouTube channel
The Hindu
For ‘Sarpatta Parambarai’ composer Santhosh Narayanan, the greatest compliment his soundtrack received was that it fused completely with the film
The day of Sarpatta Parambarai’s release, Santhosh Narayanan received calls from people saying that they never realised that the movie had a background score running throughout. “That, to any technician, is the biggest compliment,” says Santhosh Narayanan, seated in his home studio in Chennai. “A film should absorb you so much that all you can see is the performance of the artiste — not the music, not the way the camera is moving, not the artwork used.” Sarpatta Parambarai is Santhosh’s fourth movie of 2021, after Parris Jayaraj, Jagame Thanthiram and Karnan, and he has four more yet to be released. “Three of them were delivered to me in one week, so it helped that all of them were completely different universes,” he says, explaining how the first step is always to figure out the “sound palette” of the film. For Sarpatta, it was all about staying authentic to the 70s sound. Instead of echoing film music from that era, which he thought would sound too derivative, he focussed on choosing instruments specific to that time.More Related News