Was itching to make music: Sneha Khanwalkar

Music composer Sneha Khanwalkar on her small screen endeavours, musical aspirations and more
She is one of the very few female music composers in B-Town. But music was nothing new for her. Sneha Khanwalkar grew up with music in growing up years.
Having composed music for films like Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! and Love Sex Aur Dhoka, was almost on her way to become a singer as people kept telling her parents ‘isse singer banao’.But composing music has what kept her drifting from where her heart lies.
Ask her about her struggle in a male-dominated industry and Sneha replies, “It was anyway a struggle for me because I had zero experience and I had not assisted anybody from the industry. I had no information about the technical aspects either. It was a strange place to be in initially. But I was itching to get out and make music.”
With her future projects including the background score for Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of WasseypurPart — 1 and 2, Sneha is currently creating waves on the small screen with the show — Sound Trippin. While she agrees that doing a TV show would help her get more recognition and open lot of doors, she says, “People keep wondering how songs are made and recorded. Technology is not very helpful as people in the small towns cannot afford it. I did the show because I wanted to show the entire music-making process to such music enthusiasts.” About bringing music to every household, she adds, “Everybody takes pictures and videos using their mobile phones. This show will help them realize that they can even make songs using their phones and simple natural sounds.”
Sneha, who has taken inspiration from natural sounds while travelling around the country, does not have any issues to the item numbers which dominate a movie these days. She opines, “It’s always good to have a fun track in a film. But if an item song is inculded in the film just for grabbing attention, it takes away the focus from the other good things in the movie.” Before she moves on to yet another destination, Sneha tells us about how she has turned singer for another music director (Amit Trivedi) for the first time in Sachin Kundalkar’s Aiyaa. She says, “It was wonderful to work with Amit. I feel that such exchange should happen between music directors more.”