Shakun Batra: “Music is really what leads the audiences into investing their emotions”

For director Shakun Batra (‘Gehraiyaan’, ‘Kapoor and Sons’), music is a tool that carries the narrative forward.

He shared that great music can truly add a tot of depth to the story and drive the audience to the point that a storyteller intends to make.

Elaborating his idea about music for films, he said, “It’s (the music) such a huge tool to set the mood and tone. Sometimes music is really what leads the audiences into investing their emotions.”

He added, “For me music is huge but I’m always scared that the music in my films should not sound like an assembly line and take down everything with it and everything starts to sound stale and old.”

“It has to be a new packaging but eventually the same feeling. For me, just the music becoming new can change the feeling of how one receives a film,” he said.