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To do so better, I took up guitar classes as well.\n\nI had an opportunity to watch while famous film composer Vijayabhaskar was at work and he told me \"Why not be my assistant, you have very good ears!\"\n\nThat's when I took up composing seriously. Then came the journey with musical software and I was delighted to see how much I could put together and then to sing or play the veena on the track was really the peak of musical happiness for me!\"\n\nSuchitra Lata, classical veena player, has trained under illustrious veena teachers like, Neela Roy (Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar school), Rajeshwari Padmanabhan (Karaikudi school) and continues to learn with Maestro Chitravina Ravikiran.\n\nAs a composer/lyricist, she writes in English, Tamil and sometimes in French. Her music is a mix of her long and ardent Indian classical music training and her fortunate exposure to every genre of music from country, Broadway, jazz, Hindustani and rock since childhood. 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