Rawat, Your quote "Didn't he know that period movies are all vocal, loud, exhibitionist."
ARR is one hell of a thinker - & keeps trying to do things differently.. whatever be the case, saying that AG-ARR combo is not good is ridiculous.. AG knows exactly what a musical movie is all about & ARR loves those kind of directors. And JA Music, BGM were awesome !!! to say the least. On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:09 AM, V S Rawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/19/2008 8:58 AM India Time, _Chord_ wrote: > > > ARR himself mentioned how proud he was of his work > > in JA in interviews. Why would he lie? To be politically correct? > > That is when I get sickened to the core when such shallow type of > understanding people go with. > > I said "Music and films went on different directions. Music was personal > sort of and film was public exhibitionist sort of." > > So, ARR can rightly proud of his work as an MD who gave good music. > > And ARR should realize that he failed to get the feel of the > exhibitionist nature of the film and made personal genre of music for it. > > I wonder how ARR could mess it up. Didn't he know that period movies are > all vocal, loud, exhibitionist. > > I am surprised to find that "The feel of JA music didn't suit the tone > of JA movie" is being mentioned in this list for the first time by me. > It has been 6 months when the music was released and then the movie was > released. Almost all memebers must have heard the music many times and > seen the movie at least once. And after 2000 or 5000 posts that you all > talked about on JA movie/ music, not a single person can see that movie > is going in a different direction than where the film was going? > > That is an indication of current quality of discussions this group. Just > praise ARR, just exchange trivia and tidbit. > > > Please. The audiences loved the music and I can safely say that 9/10 > > families who I know from various parts of India say that the music of > > JA is heavy in their listening rotation even today and say that it's > > one of the best albums in bollywood recently. Sales don't lie either > > as this album has done very well commercially. > > People loved Om Shanti Om and its music trillion times more than they > loved JA movie or music. That doesn't set OSO music any shade better > than JA music. I liked 2-3 songs of OSO also somewhat, but they are > miles behind the level of ARR's music. > > Let us not judge the quality of ARR's music by the curves on sales > charts. People are stupid because the best works of ARR - 1947 Earth, > Water, etc. were commercially flop. > > > ARR purposely wanted to > > create an album that sounded different from Mughal E Azam, > > I can believe that. He is always hellbent on doing something different. > :-) And I like that. That is his identity, his essence. > > > a type of > > musical direction that has not been footprinted on with this type of > > movie. > > I can believe this too. > > And he succeeded. > > JA music vs movie is a unique combo that was never there in any period > movie. > > but it failed. soft music got lost in the loud, gaudy movie. > > > If he came up with a "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya", he would be > > accused of trying to copy that song or suck up to the music of that > > time. > > Your argument was going perfectly well and acceptable, but you punctured > it right here by stooping to the level of saying that what i wrote was a > suggestion that ARR steals Mughal-e-azam songs to reuse in JA. > > You are very shallow. I should not have bothered reading your mails nor > replying to you. > > so i stop here. > > > > > Love live JA's music. It's one of my all time favorites. Your > > opinion is your opinion, but it's part of a very, very small minority. > > -- > V > > > -- Cheers, Pradeepan. "All you need to do is, decide what to do with the time that is given to you !"
