Roopanthara’s music captures what it is to be human and grow as one, says composer Midhun Mukundan

A Kannada film by the makers of Ondu Motteya Kathe, featuring Raj B Shetty on the cast and with his regular collaborators, DOP Pravin Shriyan and music man Midhun Mukundan, onboard the crew, is, no doubt, going to grab eyeballs. There’s a sense of intrigue and expectation about what they’ve come up with this time around. It’s a film called Roopanthara, written and directed by Mithilesh Edavalath, which follows 5 hyper-linked stories and how the characters meet or become the catalyst for the metamorphosis of another.

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This essence of the film is what Midhun had to convey with the music as well. Talking about this aspect at the film’s trailer launch, Midhun reminisced about his first impression of the script and what he has done musically. “The depth and detailing of Mithilesh’s observations of human experiences and how he has interpreted them came as a pleasant surprise to me. I still remember the effect his script had on me when he met me for the first time a few years ago. As a team, we have strived to give audiences that exact same effect,” said Midhun.

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Roopanthara, he adds, has three songs, the first of which, Kittale, written by Raj and sung by yet another regular collaborator, Chaithra J Achar, has already been released. The second is a song that Midhun says was creatively very satisfying for him in this day of short and catchy reel-worthy content. “Called Thana Moola, this has also been written by Raj. It is a special song in my career, because these days, you don’t get to compose lengthy numbers. This song is just over 5 minutes long and is a deeply spiritual song. I think it encompasses a small part of our existence,” added the composer.

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The third song was developed from a bit he’d done for the background score, which the team then felt would be better with lyrics. What Midhun had to keep in mind for his score was that it had to capture the essence of Roopanthara – human experiences. “What it is to be a human and what it is to grow as a human being is what Roopanthara is all about. We’ve tried our best to communicate this with the music, aided greatly by Raj’s lyrics,” he signs off.