You are right, I missed Sapnay. The movie bombed but the music did reasonably well, nowhere in the league of a Rangeela or Dil Se.., though.
----- Original Message ---- From: Chord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:06:38 AM Subject: Re: [arr] Did Rahman go through a Hindi film commercial lull between 1995-1998? My knowledge of this time period is a bit low, since I was not a huge Rahman fan until Vande Mataram, and more so with Dil Se and Taal. Didn't Sapnay also release around that time too? Thought Sapnay had some great songs, but did just average commercially music wise. --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..> wrote: > > >>However, despite having some > >>strong albums with good songs, it seems as if the period between > >>Rangeela and Dil Se did not boast of huge commercial hits > > There were only two, Kabhi Na Kabhi (1996), a movie once meant to be his Hindi debut and was finally resuscitated from the cans and Daud (1997). Not sure what strong albums with good songs you are referring to. The only dubbed film that was made for a pan-India market to begin with, Indian did reasonably well in its Hindi version, musically as well. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Chord <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .> > To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:47:01 AM > Subject: [arr] Did Rahman go through a Hindi film commercial lull between 1995-1998? > > > I may be mistaken, but it seems as if he went through a relatively > down time commercially during that time in Hindi films. I'm not > talking about Vande Mataram (1997) which was a huge hit worldwide, but > this was not a film album. I also know that he had huge commercial > successes in Tamil during that time. However, despite having some > strong albums with good songs, it seems as if the period between > Rangeela and Dil Se did not boast of huge commercial hits. I believe > Rahman went through a similarly down period in Hindi between late > 2001-2005 in terms of commercial success, with the notable exception > of Saathiya. Meenaxi, Swades, and Yuva all had mixed responses > commercially, not all out hits IMO. Tehzeeb, Lakeer, LOBS, Nayak, > Love U Hamesha, Bose, MP did not do well at all at the cash > registers. I think RDB broke that down period. > > I still believe that the period between 1998-2001 was Rahman's first > and possibly not to be surpassed critical and commercial golden era > relatively in both Tamil and Hindi. Dil Se, Taal, Lagaan, Zubeidaa, > Thakshak, Pukar, 1947 Earth, Doli Saja Ke Rakhana, Alai Payuthey, > Kandukonden. .....what an amazing output this was! > > We may be in another golden era now with 3 huge releases along with > recent successes of JA, Jaane Tu, Sakrakkati, but I doubt anything > will surpass the 1998-2001 era. >
