most of these questions resonate with me. even i want to ask these questions and not the same questions asked in most of the interviews.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:05 PM, vinod sagar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was just thinking if I were to interview Rahman, what question I wud ask. > Here's a part of the questions I thought of.. they are not exhaustive... > some more are to come.. hope you to add some... pls excuse me if i thought > of a question which was already answered :o) > > ------------------------------ > > 1. You and Mehboob made a great combination, proved with the success of > Bombay and Vandemataram, why is that we do not see you working together > again ? > ------------------------------ > > 2. Music Directors often say that they have "n" number of tunes in their > repository (one Telugu MD I heard said that he had 10,000 song tunes with > him). Is this the same with you as well. Or do you think music and tunes > come spontaneously ? > ------------------------------ > > 3. Why is it that whenever we listen to your music in different systems > (eg. Headphones, 5.1, Stereo etc), we discover new sounds that we had not > heard before in that song. For example in the song "Ishq Bina Ishq Bina" > from Taal you had mixed the sound of a CPU speaker between 5:15 and 5:17. Do > you mix them in your songs as a "puzzle - to be solved by the listners" ? > ------------------------------ > > 4. What according to you is the best music set-up to listen, discover and > enjoy your songs completely, with all the special effects. > ------------------------------ > > 5. When I was a teenager back in the 90s I saw one of your interviews on > TV. In that interview you had said that a lot of Directors are not happy > with your music, but the music went on to become hits. Did those directors > ever come back to you again ? > ------------------------------ > > 6. You had expressed your wish to do music for a film like > "Shankarabharanam". Do you think that you will ever get to work on such a > movie in today's trend of commercial cinema? > > ------------------------------ > > 7. We have seen many of your greatest tunes not getting the praise they > deserve because either they were part of a non-commercial movie of a one > that flopped (eg: Ada, Zubeida, Bose-TFH, Meenaxi, Tehzeeb, one 2 k 4, Gang > Master, Palnati Pourusham etc). But when you use any part of these > overlooked songs in other movies, critics slam you to be repetitive, how do > you repond to it. > ------------------------------ > > 8. Do you think your style of music has indirectly put any pressure on > other music directors to keep-up with you and make music similar to yours ? > ------------------------------ > > 9. We all know that you are a very busy person, do you regularly listen to > music of other music directors by your instincts or when someone recommends > it. > ------------------------------ > > 10. You had once said that you can make enough songs for 5 movies with the > Background music created in one movie. We see that some of the current music > directors are copying from your back-ground music (Eg: vishal shekar from > Swades to salaam nameste- my dil goes mmm.. caught by an active fan in the > yahoo group). How do you feel when other music directors copy your songs. > (We don't know how many of your background scores have inspired other MDs > yet :o) > ------------------------------ > > 11. Shivamani once said that you were the first music director in India who > insisted on printing the names of artists on the cassette and cd credits > (eg" keyboard player, sound engineer, flute etc). That was a great gesture, > but how open was the music industry to this concept ? > ------------------------------ > > 12. How successful have you been in convincing the industry about the > music royalities issue ? > ------------------------------ > > 13. When the music of Lagaan, Jodha Akbar, Rang de Basanti, Zubeida, > Thakshak, The legend of bhagat singh etc... was released, early critics > wrote them off with comments such as "Not expected from Rahman". But a few > years after their release, these albums are suddenly considered master > pieces in Indian music history. Do you think that this is the mind setup > of the critics or if something is wrong somewhere ? > ------------------------------ > > 14. It happpens only with your music that the more you listen to it the > more you like it, why? > ------------------------------ > > 15. > a) A lot of today's top music artists swear by the statement that "it is > ONLY because of you that they are what today". > b)Until Roja, the producers never dared to experiment to with new music > directors > c) Until you, the artists never got any credit on the music cassette/CD > inlays > d) You are one who has taken the initiative in demanding the royalities to > the music director from music companies > e) You took Indian music to the global arena > f) Your name itself sells music either with the music lovers or the music > companies > > Of all the above examples you are a trendsetter. How does it feel, do you > feel more burdened with expectations ? > > ------------------------------ > > > Vinod > > >
