On 6/5/2008 9:35 AM India Time, _Vithur_ wrote: > Brother Rawat... > > Vairamuthu is a world known lyricist, and he is very popular across the > globe. His Lyrics are even admired by non Tamilians. His lyrics are > electrifying...
Dear Vithur, I would like to know what criteria you are using to assess his popularity across the globe? None of the people that I have come across have ever heard Vairamuthu's name, let alone know that he is a poet, let alone hear his lyrics. I myself heard his name only in this list in connection with ARR and have never heard his lyrics. Among Hindi music lovers, even Mehboob's name is more heard than Vairamuthu's name. Vairamuthu is not unpopular, Vairamuthu is totally unknown in cow belt. > In fact, some of his lyrics have been more effective for the song > situation than the HIndi Lyricists, as acknowledged by ARR himself, I have also heard about his greatness and I crave to listen to his lyrics. I wonder why doesn't he learn 200 words of Hindi to pen at least one Hindi original song for ARR so that we could also feel the greatness he is claimed to have. Maybe, ARR could take some initiative with the the help of bilinguals like Mehboob to give a glimpse of Vairamuthu's magic to Hindi music lovers. Like, Vairamuthu writes original tamil lyrics for a Hindi song of ARR, Mehboob translates it to Hindi, and then reverse translates it to Tamil to explain to Vairamuthu how his poem's various connotations are coming in hindi, depending of which Vairamuth modifies on and on and gives final approval to a Hindi lyrics that he feels conveys what he wished to convey. That will be a unique experiment. > > -- > regards, > Vithur -- Rawat
