ATYPICAL ROMANCE

It’s a boy-meets-girl romance — with a difference — tracing the hiccups of the Indian movie industry. It centres on the world of Shankar, who owns a music studio and who aspires to be like Grammy-winning composer AR Rahman. “We wanted to make Taj

Express about a boy meeting a girl, and their journey from Kashmir to Kanyakumari — literally from the north of India to the south of India to the east of India to the west of India. So we were covering a bouquet of all the textures, pallets, landscapes of India. It slowly then also progressed into making it a contemporary story; we started off classical… [with] a beautiful romance, and then we contemporised it.”