Hmm, yeah, technically. But as you rightly said that ARR was a well established name in Bollywood Hindi music by that time. Roza did well in connoisseur circles and even though its Rukmini was found quite catchy, it was not the fav of street masses. But street masses did rally behind Humse Hai Muqabla's title song that got copied by Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik that can be taken an indication of its popularity and I had even seen a full cassette titled muqabla muqabla which had various copied and remixed versions of the song. Hindi Film bombed badly so it didn't help ARR and the song. In fact, there was so much confusion about it that the masses could never really identify which song is ARR's original, so ARR got identified with all muqabla songs, even the copied once. Divine justice. :-)
Thus, I think no special credit needs to be given to RGV for taking ARR in Rangeela. RGV rather cashed on on ARR's popularity. And, Rangeela also has Babu Lo Chal Gaya dubbed from Super Police (guess that was the name). So, "original" hindi music wud also not go fully in Rangeela. Though I happily concede that Rangeela was a good movie. -- Rawat On 6/15/2008 10:09 PM India Time, _Vikram Kumar_ wrote: > Technically he did introduce A.R. Rahman into hindi fiml industry as > Rangeela was the first original HINDI OST for Rahman (All previous > movies were dubbed ones). But A.R. Rahman was much famous in Bollywood > before that. I guess Rangeela came out around 13 years back... and i had > bough the audio cassete for A.R. Rahman;s music at that time > > Another charge against him is that he has become complacent. He > introduced talent like A.R. Rahman, Anurag Kashyap, Jaideep Sahni > and Manoj Bajpai and then let them go away. "I didn't create any > talent. I just used them at a point of time. I never had a team and > will never have," at times his quotes have as much precision as his > editing patterns. > http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/06/15/stories/2008061550210500.htm > -- > regards, > Vithur > > HELP EVER; HURT NEVER; > LOVE ALL; SERVE ALL > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Vikram
