meenaxi was a tale of 3 cities.. hyderabad to jaisalqmer to prague.. chinnama song was in the hyderabad outset and ARR had to compose the song for that situation.. that's the reason
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:08 PM, V S Rawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it came as a surprise to me to know that Chinnamma gets reused > > in Tamil only now. > > Its opening chorus gave an impression of it being a language song, so I > was always thinking that it must have been some originally tamil > original song that ARR had reused in Meenakshi. > > Think about it. ARR - originally Tamil speaking, uses south Indian > Chorus in a Hindi original. I don't exactly remember the situation of > this song in the film - ok, it was Hyderabad based in part but was there > anything that warranted bringing a south Indian flavor. > > Could be that he had the tune ready for some Tamil film which got > shelved and he used it in Meenakshi. Not sure, just guessing. > > -- > V > > >
