Vijay/Gops, ARR should answer these great questions. I wonder what an interview it would be to see ARR answer these sort of pointed , specific questions.
ARR can use his website arrahman.com to answer some of the filtered queries, time to time. You know what, 95% of the interviewers in media are not aware of most of the gems of ARR and they see ARR's work only superficially. The result is interview after interview we hear only same sort of questions and ARR must have got extremely bored by now. I say, its awesome Vinod, to come up with such questions. As a fan I too have many such questions. Can this be the begining? Regards, Karthik ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of vinod sagar [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:05 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Sagar Subject: [ARR] If I were to Interview Rahman - Questions I would ask 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
