MUMBAI: A Boston-based Indian composer says he is “thrilled” to be part of the Oscar-winning Megan Mylan directed short documentary ‘Smile Pinki’ for which he had to race against time to score music for it in just three days.
According to a PTI report, ace Guitarist and composer Prasanna, who had worked with Oscar-winning music composer A R Rahman, was involved in the composition, performance, recording and mixing the music for ‘Smile Pinki’, the tale of a Uttar Pradesh girl and her fight against the social stigma of a cleft-lip.
Sharing his experiences, the 38-year-old musician told PTI in an e-mail interview that Megan came to know about him from a common friend and she called him and told him about the documentary.
“She was orginally thinking of licensing some excerpts from various Indian classical CDS for the music but after our first phone conversation, she was convinced that an original score would be a great idea but the time was too short as she had her final sound edit schedules all confirmed,” he said.
As it turned out, he had “just three days..One day to see the film; one day to record and mix the entire music and one more day for some minor corrections she wanted, and it was all done.” Surprisingly, Prasanna and Megan never met each other.
Prasanna graduated from IIT Chennai but music was his passion and he plunged into it whole-heartedly. He was felicitated by his alma mater here yesterday.