Hey man, Its good to see you write after a long time. And you've come with a very sensitive issue, which if taken even slightly wrongly, may bring a storm in the group. So, I'll write carefully, as follows:
There was a time when whatever A R Rahman composed, became contemporary music. He defined the contemporary music and others merely followed him. Especially in south, north was not any exception as well. Times have changed now, so many young music composers have evolved and sometimes its hard to distinguish the styles especially because almost everyone has followed ARR in some manner. And everyone is copying world music equally well. Also, we are exposed to American pop/rap more than we ever were. Copying their beats or making same kind of music has become a fashion. Now, if you follow very carefully the time between 2000 and 2006, how successfull do you think ARR's music was as compared to old days. The only reason is that ARR was still composing his kind of music but rest of country was more intrested in listening all the american crap which was wraped nicely in indian style by our very talented copycats. If you take the example of Guru Dutt, we all know he was a legendary director, perhaps the best we ever had after Satayjeet Ray (Mani Ratnam in recent times). He followed his own path, his own unique style and made movies which were way ahead of their time. Do you think he was considered legendary, when he was alive? No. Do you think he lived a happy and peacefull life? No. At the last days of his career, he had to beg small rolls (side rolls/supporting rolls) to survive. He was so afraid of making a flop movie that he had to make a movie shadow-directed by his assistant (Sahib biwi aur gulam). Why? Because he followed his own style, his own path. Did our great ancesstors recognize his legendary work while he was alive? No. He became a legend after his death. Don't you think same could not happen to ARR? Yes, I believe it could. If ARR had not changed his style at right time, he would have ended in same way. And after 20 years our kids would be saying, ARR was a great music composer, a legendary MD. Guys, I have seen my friends saying ARR is the greatest music composer in world when they listened 'Pappu can't dance', 'Shano Shano', or 'Pathsala'. which all had cotemporary kindish music. These are the same guys who used to tell me how crap my music choice was when I used to listen to Zubeidaa, Bose or Nayak or Love you hamesha. which all had uniqe ARR style. How many of your friends appriciate Jodhaa Akbar? So its all surviving instincts. ARR has to do it. And we should feel lucky because he is doing it. Because if he stays commercially successfull, he will surely compose an ADA, a JODHAA AKBAR every once in a while. I am sorry if I am wrong or if I don't make any sense or if I've got it compeletly wrong way. But that's how I feel. Pravinder. --- In [email protected], Abhimanyu Rana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > My apologies, in case I am wrong, but I feel AR Rahman's music is now shifting to more of the contemporary Hindi film music. Now I do barely listen to the drums/thumps/time-sliced beats/female harmonies and all. I am yet to explore fully the Yuvraaj and Ghajini music scores, though their promos and JTYJN seems to be composed with a more contemporary Hindi music audience. Ada is an exception as I believe it has been composed over the years, when the boss was still having a unique blend of music. > > Shift to a more contemporary music wears my heart out as I always refered to AR Rahman as being a unique sound of music. What's your say on this? > > Your's, > Abhimanyu. >
