"A.R.Rahman isn't a good judge of scripts"
October 16, 2008
I
was in the midst of a discussion
between
two friends talking about Rahman
and
Yuvan, and this made me to think of
one contrasting difference between
these composers. When you look at
A R Rahman’s career graph, you
can’t help noticing that most
of his flop movies (not flop songs)
are with new directors that he
makes
music for
-recent example, Kala Prabhu’s
Sakkarakatti.
A sample list of other moderate to flop
movies would be: Pudiya Mugam, May
Madham,
Enakku 20 Unakku 18, Sillunu Oru Kadhal,
Udhaya, Parasuram, ATM, and Ratchagan.
You
will notice that 90 percent of his hit
movies
are with well established directors or
are
backed up by strong personalities, such
as Aamir Khan for his nephew in Jaane Tu.
This is a sharp contrast to someone like
Yuvan who is more successful with new
comers.
And his father, Ilayaraja, has an
unprecedented
record of hit movies with new comers. The
irony is that Rahman's judgment in
scripts
is not that great; he can connect with
his
music but I don’t think he has the
ability to judge what scripts will work
and what will not. If Mani Ratnam, Aamir
Khan, and Shankar move on at this point
to new music directors, it will at least
give Rahman a new bandwidth of newcomers
to experiment with.
I am not disputing that Rahman has set a
benchmark in the industry. However, I
would
prefer that Rahman try and experiment
with
more new comers and hone his instinct to
connect with new scripts instead of
circling
back to those five top directors all the
time.
VIJAY SRINIVASAN
Behindwoods visitor
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