Overwhelmed after winning two Oscars for his score in Slumdog Millionaire, music maestro A R Rahman on Monday said that one has to work without expectations and he had never thought that the music would go so far.

"When you have strings attached, you only want to please certain people...I feel it is a corruption in the mind. I believe that you have to work without any expectations. I feel that you have to be true to the film and its emotions," Rahman said through an audio conferencing from Los Angeles.