Kay Kay Menon and Vinay Pathak on returning to the world of filmmaker Neeraj Pandey's Special Ops with the second season, why the intensity of the espionage thriller works, and why they find the director's way of working similar to doing theatre.

Sam Slater chats with mid-day about the music he composed for The Railway Men, his love for Sikkim’s tomato curry, and how honesty defines his compositions. Slater is known for his background scores in the OTT show Chernobyl and the movie Joker.Ask British composer Sam Slater what composing music for a film or series involves and he introduces us to the concept of a sound world. Slater, a two-time Grammy award winner who’s known for his background scores in the documentary Chernobyl and the movie Joker, says that coming up with a musical theme for a series involves “staying true to its history”.