*Ashuthosh speaks abt Jodha Akbar * ** http://www.screenindia.com/fullstory.php?content_id=18709 ** *The film has an eclectic period track which has you team up for the third time with AR Rahman (music) and Javed Akhtar (lyrics). What was your brief for the film's music and any favourite song?* It's the first time that Rahman and Javed sahab have done a film set in the Mughal era, so we did have our discussions as to how to approach it. We essentially wanted to create sounds and melodies that would have a researched backdrop of that period, but would be contemporary in their treatment and overall appeal as we wanted the songs to depict that past and carry the scene forward, and yet appeal to today's generation by not getting archaic. Also the language we wanted to use was to just give a hint of Urdu and be very simple. Even in the script and dialogues, any word that I don't understand is not in the film and my Urdu is very limited. It doesn't interest me to impress anyone with how much Urdu I know because then it becomes a personal film. I want it to stay as lucid and simple to the layman as possible. All the songs are close to my heart, but the song that's most representative of the film is Kehno ke jashne-bahara because it has romance and is the leading song of the film.
-- regards, Vithur A.R.RAHMAN - MY BREATH & LIFE FORCE
