Anirudh Ravichander: ‘Working in Jawan was like doing three projects at once’

“The thing with Jawan was that there were a lot of emotions going on at the same time. For example, the train scene where Shah Rukh sir is being a villain, and within a few seconds, there will be the story of a farmer. Then how are we going to musically connect it all was challenging. So, our task in Jawan was to bring all these emotions together and make it sound seamless to the audience. Working in Jawan was like working in two to three films at the same time because of the number of characters and emotions,” he shared.

Explaining further how they approached each character in Jawan, Ravichander revealed, “The first character in the tribal area, we chose to go with tribal sounds which are also heroic. Our inspiration was Wakanda and stuff like that. When we shifted to Azad, who is a more of a chill guy, we used cooler music. When we went to Vikram Rathore, when he was introduced, he wore earphones. We wanted him to be listening to old-school rock, which was in the mind of the director as well. But when he was introduced, we again went with the tribal chant, but with a modern twist because he is the same guy but we can’t use the tribal music which we used earlier here. But when he puts on the headphones, he will listen to rock music. Like what we were doing in our college days (laughs). So, everything fell in place organically for the film.”

With the success of Jawan, Anirudh Ravichander is sure that he will be doing more projects in Hindi. “Two will be in Tamil, and one will be in Hindi. That’s the plan,” he said.