I always feel, ARR music enhances when good lyrics are assosiated with that. I feel ARR must work with Gulzar for his individual album like Vande mataram.
Vinay Vithur wrote: > Gulzar versus Vairamuthu > > http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/India_ Buzz/Gulzar_ versus_Vairamuth > u/articleshow/ 3426038.cms > > Ace director Mani Ratnam, who is now making a bilingual in Hindi with > Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Govinda and in Tamil with Vikram, > Priyamani and Pritviraj, has his 'discovery' AR Rahman providing music for > both the films. > Mani's biggest strength as a commercial filmmaker is the packaging of songs > and the way it is picturised. He is one of the very few mainstream Indian > directors who has never gone out of the country to shoot his songs. > There is a lot of 'Indianess' about the songs in Mani's films and the secret > has been that he sits with his lyric writers and music director to get the > feel of the theme he is tackling. > For this bilingual there are seven songs penned down by Gulzar in Hindi and > Vairamuthu in Tamil. At the end Mani had a tight rope walk as he had to agree > to Gulzar's viewpoint that good Urdu poetry towers above everything else, and > Vairamuthu's assertion that Tamil is a sweeter and better language to pen > poetry! > -- regards, Vithur ARR -- The Sweet Cube always >

