I, for one, am glad, ARR works with AG. And he's doing WYR. Don't trust everything you read on Wikipedia.
----- Original Message ---- From: V S Rawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:37:31 PM Subject: Re: [arr] ARR not composing for Ashutosh Gowariker's next? On 7/18/2008 6:43 PM India Time, _Jahanzeb Farooq_ wrote: > Is out boss not composing for Ashutosh Gowariker's What's Your > Raashee? The wikipedia page > (http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ What%27s_ Your_Raashee% 3F) shows SEL as > music directors. I am completely surprised. Ashutosh has said in some > interview some days back that he wants A.R.Rahman for it. So sad! > Whatever. My view is that Ashutosh is not really a song-music person. He might have good ear for music but he doesn't have imagination enough to give good treatment to songs. All songs of Lagaan/ Swadesh were sort of fit in the movie. There was no special scene, no great visuals, no imagination at all. All routine scenes, all daily life situations. Just on the run. At most, a situation was created for the Kailash Kher song in Swades, but how shabbily it was patched in. So, I think it is no loss for ARR if Ashutosh goes away. It was Ashutosh's films that were benefitting from ARR's music, the films themselves didn't add to the beauty of ARR's songs. Ashutosh is not a 1% of Mani or Shankar when it comes to songs picturization. Of course, a film getting hit makes the music reach more persons, there is no denial of that. And, if ARR feels comfortable with Ashutosh and becomes more creative giving his better ones, then of course, it is a loss for us if Ashutosh breaks away. I didn't mention JA because the movie went of a totally different track away from music. I don't even remember where Jashnebahara or lamho ke daaman had been. Such a forgettable treatment. And remember the stale situation of Manmohna, the gaudy money-waster sets of Azeem-shaanshahansh ah give pain when remember. JA was a shit, confused, purpose-less movie. I always felt that SEL are a perfect fit for Ashutosh's level. -- V
