Rawat, Is this you? I am a big fan of Gulzar, Javed, Vaali and Vairamuthu. And I don't call anybody as Sir, even Rahman. From when did you start hanging on such petty things?
Like Kalimuthu (No, he is not a realtive of Vairamuthu) said its preposterous to even compare lyricists and musicians. If you do so, your idea of a language is limited then. Tamil is from the family of Dravidian languages, while hindi is from Indo-Aryan. Even the basic grammar structure varies significantly. The same is true with music. Music is beyond language, Language by itself is not and cannot. Is it tough for you to accept that there are good lyricists outside bollywood? Your idea of Vairamuthu learning 200 hindi words to pen a original Hindi song to show his glimpse of greatness is laughable at best. Do you think you can compose a meaningful song if you know 200 words in a language you never knew? What's your point. I feel you are just trying to cover your position. Not an intelligent discussion. The literary contribution of Vairamuthu is immense. Infact, his greater works lies there. Ridiculing some of his translated lyrics is childish. I don't know about Javed's or Gulzar's literary works. Apprise me of them if you wish to. If your real intention of knowing Vairamuthu's or any artists greatness/genius then you should have engaged in a conversation with people who have gone through their works and ask them why do they think he is great and you try to understand their points. The way you have built this conversation seems to be in bad taste to me. It is you who is bringing the region and language divide and conveniently claiming that 'everything is fine within limits'. Artists work for satisfaction and the inherent urge. Fame is a by product. Fame is not everything one lives for. Please understand that. If you want to appreciate classical music, you have to learn it/or develop an ear for that. Asking Yanni to compose a rajasthani folk so that you can appreciate his genius is ?? On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 5:58 PM, kishore parayath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, Yodha's Original malayalam version was a big hit here... But its > Tamil, Telugu and Hindi versions failed in d box office since there were not > good distributers dat time... > >
