/> After conquering every peak possible in the Hindi charts, Himesh Reshammiya has now set his sight and sound southwards.

He's signed up his first Tamil-Telugu feature film Dusavtar featuring the legendary Kamal Haasan in ten different roles.

"So I guess I'll have to work ten times harder," Himesh jokes. "But seriously Kamalji is such a legend. He's the only reason why I've chosen to go southwards at a time when I've so much on my plate in Bollywood. A film featuring Kamal Haasan can't be dubbed a regional film,"

The Tamil-Telugu film is produced by V Ravichandran who recently did the successful Aparachit.

"And they're making the film on a lavish scale, no expenses spared....I think I'm the only Bollywood composer to be going South," he says, forgetting that Vishal Bhardwaj did a South Indian film called Dayaa at his career's peak.

Himesh will have to take the help of a translator to get the nuances of the Tamil and Telugu right. In the meanwhile he's also very excited about the success of his latest soundtrack Ahista Ahista.

"Many years ago Khayyam Saab had done a beautiful score for the same producers entitled Ahista Ahista. I can't match up to that score. But I've done my own thing."

Incidentally Anu Malik was asked to take up the Khayyam challenge in Umrao Jaan even as Himesh had to live up to the Ahista Ahista magic of Khayyam.