Because your (south indian) music knowledge is much much greater than all of ours put together I have great faith in your taste and would like to know who this Raghuman you are referring to?
Your insults to R-a-h-m-a-n looks more like something that's coming out of frustration due to the lack of Illaiyaraja in H/Bollywood. Btw, Rahman does not need to be faithful to anyone or any fanbase. He only needs to be faithful to MUSIC and he's doing a damn good job of that. If you think he's not delivering in the tamil industry as he did in the 90s then you were never a Rahman fan. You were only a fan of the new sensation that his music brought you in the 90s. So just grow up! On Thu, 6/5/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:[arr] ARRs focus on solo instruments-overdoing on INDIAN MUSIC? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 6:48 AM Friends i feel sorry to say this. CHord please stop as you said you know lot about INDIAN MUSIC. be realistic &amp; true to yourself. are you for raghuman or for yourself just to do more posts &amp; over do. by limited writing you wont lose importance. It looks pity. by over &amp; over highlighting on same things you want to see posts-like from ricky pc speak for other mds &amp; finally tapey falling into ilayaraja groove. Chord you are the one coming with music by other mds &amp; as part of music lovers universally no one will deny if you wanna speak on other mds. My mom who is singing for Bharata Natyam performances asking this guy Chord to elaborate on beautiful Padams &amp; Javalis please, as he claimed, know lot about Indian Music ? She is laughing at this guy of suddenly putting raghuman in high spirits as no other person in indian music &amp; another day he bbrings in many recommendations for some old &amp; new music of other mds he finds special in it only to insist not in raghumans. To keep on insisting, this is it, this is not, with their [know lot about INDIAN MUSIC attitude]&nbsp; shows only immaturity with lack of exposure on INDIAN MUSIC BLENDED WITH CULTURES. if you want to claim anything kindly add [to my limited knowledge on hindi music &amp; genres]. human minds are in sick arrangement when it finds something new &amp; irresistible it is ready to throw other things&nbsp; without realizing its existed value be it music or be crazy writing to forums to gain importance only to be seen obsessed. if i&nbsp;listen to&nbsp;certain composers, in certain languages &amp; certain genres, i cannot put views in public with a bold claim [i know lot about INDIAN MUSIC &amp; this is it], to my limited exposure. both old &amp; new worlds music has provided us&nbsp;gems with various&nbsp; musicians in many genres. &nbsp; dear friend for dance performances she used to give a mix of&nbsp;some nice hindi bhajans, marati abhangs, telugu kirtans, kannada dasar padams, viruttams in sanskrit shlokas with tamil padams &amp; thillanas. it just not applies to her but to any vocal support singer for dance performances. My mom is a fan of sdburman, rdburmani, mohd rafi, mukesh,&nbsp; lata mangeshkar, Kishori Amonkar, begum parveen sultana, pt.Jasraj, Bhimsen Joshi, jagjit singh, anup jalota, ghulam ali, G.N.Balasubramaniam , M.L.Vasantha Kumari, K.V.Mahadevan, M.S.V., Maragathamani, TMS, suseela, p.leela, spb, janaki, p.b.s., jesudas &amp; ofcourse AR &amp; Ilayaraja &amp; many more of singers &amp; composers &amp; musicians that consume my time. She will find the ragas &amp; taal in Michael Jacksons music &amp; rhythms. She is a fan of beetles. She wont miss the news related to grammy awards. She will list out the ragas &amp; their bhava family they belong from the mind blowing orchestrations &amp; bgms&nbsp;in hollywood movies. Two americans are students to my mom learning how to vocal support for this classical form of art. Chord you dont have any other work &amp; idling here only to create record on posts with ill intentions &amp; not on facts. &nbsp; Coming to limitations on another claim, tastes are changing to trends &amp; generations. before raghuman era people were definitely enjoying raja's brilliance. Non-tamil fans who dont know about good &amp; the best songs of other tamil mds cannot understand these facts sadly &amp; for their limited exposure on richer side of tamil music on traditional, classical &amp; by films. Raja may not be interested to learn urdu &amp; hindi to jump into bollywood to try there. Raja just for a decade now stands 2nd to raghuman in creativity. I would ask why heros from various states dont try their luck in bollywood. Why even Kamal &amp; Rajini could not find a constant place in bollywood with their talents. It is difficult business-wise& nbsp;considering the style of living, language&nbsp; &amp; what the society demand in films in that culture at that time. May be ilayaraja is satisfied with what he does at the period when raghuman is very junior &amp; not in action. Raja is contented with the money &amp; entertaining tamil fans as far as possible. I believe even if raja gets more hindi films he wont deviate or cheat tamil fans from giving best music also to tamil films at later stages in a way of thanking the soil &amp; his first fans which is not in the case of raghuman. Like this guy Chord is sick of putting posts thinking himself as the best critic who learnt all forms of Indian Music, Raghuman is sick after money forgetting his good old tamil fans who want to listen to some best tunes even for that few tamil films he is working in. when fans claim Raja could not do what raghuman did in bollywood they forgot, what fans &amp; critics in north claim as the famous A to Z of bollywood composers, why such bollywood composers could not step into Hollywood ? Or why the 60s, 70s &amp; 80s of bollywood tunes could not impress any westerners to use them in Hollywood movies ? Or is it possible for them to give some soul stirring music in south indian films. Let&nbsp;them find a place 2nd to raghuman. But who is interested from there to do music down south even they are offered with the best deal ? Most of them won't be interested by their basic life-style, preference &amp; also due to limited knowledge on&nbsp;culture &amp; language. Those so-called ace bollywood composers were in a situation of could not even dream to take their tunes to Hollywood movies or to win internationally. Himesh is a rare case slipped into dasavataram which is not soul stirring. Ilayaraja will do more justice to dasavataram. Let us see how raghuman is going to be successful in hollywood movies as main composer? It is not that easy to satisfy that audience. He is going to reach 20th year &amp; he finds hard with this creativity to stamp in hollywood. He cannot easily get into that sort of music. Just for his bits n pieces used there he has not reached the peak in hwd. Fans claim Raja could not do what raghuman did. but fans forgot the famous old &amp; new bollywood composers also could not do what raghuman doing now.&nbsp;1 out&nbsp;of 100 will stand out. There is a constant change. This is raghuman era of music regard to films. After raghumans retirement someone will be popular ! Friends just because your music knowledge is limited upto that you tend to omit the certain facts &amp; become partial. Try to be balanced, be truthful before coming to post about musicians &amp; music. There are people for every good music &amp; every talented musician means there are many good music &amp; many talented musicians as far as INDIA is concerned. It is Limited to Film music about Raghuman, the only one in whole india to make west have keen interest not just to listen, to use &amp; perform his tunes only for a decade now. If you take great musicians from Carnatic &amp; hindustani genres they are winning their part for many decades performing &amp; spreading its popularity in the West without announcements &amp; from where many westerners are interested on our culture &amp; learning these genres. Most people who are listening only film music are not aware of these things as other genres are out of glamour world. As a music lover in broader sense, i am for raghuman when bollywood music fans &amp; critics want to pull him down, i am for ilayaraja when it is kollywood for raghuman failed to maintain standards here &amp; i will speak for the best ever valued traditional genres (carnatic &amp; hindustani) when film music lovers ignore them without knowing its values. i give due respect to all INDIAN FILM Composers &amp; all INDIAN MUSICIANS who perform for different genres. VIC. --- "Chord" &lt;purevibz@ .. .&gt; wrote: Don't make such assumptions. I know a lot about Indian music. None of these composers have the range and versatility of ARR and have used these instruments in the specific way ARR has. Of course, many have used solo instruments, but ARR's specialty relies not just in the fact that he uses them, but how he uses them. &nbsp; --- "Ricky" &lt;rickypc@ &gt; wrote: &nbsp; Buddy...my guess is you haven't listened to any other Indian music then :) Haven't you heard Shankar Jaikishan using Accordian in Awara, S.D.Burman using Kalyanji's 'been' in Nagin, R.D.Burman using harmonica in Aradhana, Jatin Lalit using piano in Pehla Nasha, Vishal using guitar in Satya, Anu Malik using violin in Baazigar, Shiv Hari using Santoor and flute in Chandni, ....gosh the list can really go on and on!!!
