In my opinion, the personal, soft nature of the songs of ARR nicely complemented and created a nice counterpoint to the grandeur and exhibitionist nature of the film. JA was centrally about romance between J and A, so the movie really did need soft, personal songs. I agree that the qawali should have been left in to make for a more complete score. To me, it was not at all congruent, just a nice contrast which the movie uniquely dynamic. ARR experimented in counterpoint with RDB's BGM as well and has talked a lot about it.
--- In [email protected], "Chord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You also said that ARR's music was an absolute failure. Now, you're > backstepping. If the music and film went in completely different > directions as you clain, wouldn't be the movie have been a complete > flop and ARR getting flogged left and right? Hmmmmmm......... > > > --- In [email protected], V S Rawat <vsrawat@> 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 > > >
