All, I think that this is the first time I have come across a topic where a celebrity has something not so nice to tell about our Mozart. It is quite surprising as this is the first ever since I had started browsing have I come across a negative comment on Rahman.
Its purported that Vairamuthu had mentioned on Hariharan saving his song from Rahman in the movie Ratchagan... (Hope its not true). Was there any backlash between Rahman and Vairamuthu sometime in the past? Do you think that Vairamuthu's comments make any sense? The following is the excerpt from Behindwoods The press meet of Saran's directorial venture Modhi Vilayaadu was held on Saturday evening at the Green Park hotel in Chennai. The movie has Vinay and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead. Nearly 60% of shooting has been completed. The movie will mark the return of Saran after quite a gap. His last film was Vattaram which could not do much at the box office. Following that he went through a bad phase where he says, many people took advantage and cheated him. Speaking at the function, he said that the tough times had taught him the true colors of a few people and that the lessons he had learnt had transformed him. He claimed that we would all see a new Saran in Modhi Vilayadu and that his career will be remembered in two phases, pre-Modhi Vilayaadu and post-Modhi Vilayadu. Vairamuthu was also present at the function and spoke in an uncharacteristic manner, ruffling a few feathers. First he hailed the debut of singer Hariharan and Leslie Lewis (the colonial cousins) as composers. He then went on to describe in a metaphoric way how it was to work with different people. He said that some people literally squeezed his work out of him like sugarcane juice extractors while there were others who came like honeybees and took what they needed without causing much hurt. He recalled that for the film Ratchagan (Nagarjuna, Sushmitha Sen), he had written the `Armstrong' song and that Rahman was not at all happy with the `Armstrong' word as he thought it to be too hard which he felt would spoil the melody of his tune. Even after trying a lot, he was not convinced and wanted the word changed. It was then that Hariharan (who went on to sing the song) intervened and said that the word was indeed quite good. Vairamuthu pointed out that this upset Rahman quite a bit. He thinks that it was Hariharan's timely intervention that saved his work from being fiddled with. He finished off by saying that in Hariharan and Leslie he was able to see elements of the great Vishwanathan-Ramamurthy combination and wished them all the best.
