Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya's names crop up more often than is ordinary when browsing through names of artistes associated with upcoming releases. They've worked with the best in the industry, but only rarely have we seen them speak as devotedly of their films' actors as they do of Vidya Balan. "She's a diamond," says Sachin, one half of the duo that composed the music of Balan's next, Shakuntala Devi. He recalls being mesmerised with her when he first heard her speak at a festival at St Xaviers College. "I was a first-year student, and she was the head-girl. I remember the five-and-a-half minute speech she gave."'

As they await the web release of the film, the duo discusses if their approach to the score would have changed had they known it wouldn't hit cinema halls, and how a director's involvement in the film's music can lift a viewer's experience.