i am surprised to know that ARR has fan-following in US. furthermore, normally in west/US people don't care about the music composer much. US audience recognizing and clapping for ARR is a big surprise to me.
--- In [email protected], "kaissiom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Just coming from the pre-screening of Slumdog Millionaire. It's a > great movie, very different... very realistic. I would recommend > everyone to watch it. I was lucky enough to get two seats for the > pre-screening in Los Angeles. I went with my friend, I was not > expecting the theater to be full since it's not a mainstream American > movie. But to my surprise there was a huge line just to get in, and > we barely saw any Indians... It was an all American audience. The > direction and storytelling is awesome, along with some brilliant > acting. Now coming to the BGM... Rahman has given an excellent score > for the movie. > > The background music really compliments the movie well. M.I.A was > featured at least a couple or more times throughout the movie. There > are many fantastic BGM pieces used throughout the movie apart from > what is played in the trailers. The romantic piece played on Jamal > and Latika is simply awesome, it's a female voice humming.. I couldn't > figure out who. I had a big wrestler type dude crying next to me > during one of these scenes. The music was truly moving and added a lot > of emotions to the scenes. > > Regarding what the reviewers and critics had said about the ending... > it's true.. about 97% of people stayed glued to their seats as the End > credits started rolling.. with the Jai Ho song by Sukhwinder and some > dance sequence with a huge crowd. > > The song... well, I was not too impressed by it... it's an average > song by Rahman standard but not very good or best.. may be because I > was hearing it the first time? But hey, the people seemed to love it. > > And when they showed Music composed by A.R. Rahman towards the end... > people cheered and clapped! Well, that made my day. We can expect > more high profile international projects from Rahman, thanks to this > movie. Let's hope it bags the Oscars for music. > > Go watch the movie and let's hope Fox Searchlight decides to release > the soundtrack of the movie. >
