Dear Friend, I totally endorse your view on Mani Sir about Butchering the Songs of ARR in GURU. Off late Maniratnam also started cutting the songs of ARR like Rakyesh did in RDB. I totally agree with you that Shanker and Gowrikar are the only Director's doing great justice to Picturization of ARR's Songs. Remember, how Shanker and Ashotosh picturized superbly ARR's Songs in Gentlemen, Boys, Mudhalvan, Swades and Lagaan.
Thanks, SHAIK MAHABOOB ----- Original Message ---- From: Thulasi Ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 9, 2007 1:00:42 PM Subject: Re: [arr] Why are ARR's songs butchered in films? i agree. according to me, mani utilized ARR's song well only till alaipayuthey. kannathil,yuva were ok. singore, vidai kodu, baadal hua were in background. now in guru, 2 songs were pushed to background and rest of them were picturized for just half of the song. i would add SHANKAR to the best director who picturizes ARR's songs list. man he rocks! Ashutosh is very good too. On 2/8/07, Ajit < ajit_mundra@ yahoo.com> wrote: I just saw Guru. Good film, but I can see why the music was not appreciated as much after watching the movie alone. Most people thought the music was just "ok". Although the audio was popular, the movie did nothing to advance the audio further and may in fact have dimnished the audio's value. That's because the songs were not picturized well, esp. Ay Hairathe and Jaage Hain. And BTW, I don't see what is such a big deal about Ek Lo Ek Muft. The placement in the film and the visuals were perfectly fine for me. Baffles me why people are making such a stink about it. The only director I know that has done justice to Rahman's songs on films has been Ashutosh Gowarikar. Hats off to the man. Check out Lagaan and Swades. Most songs fully picturized and not cut to pieces. Can't wait for Jodha Akbar. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html
