where have our boss composed bollywood style numbers in "Elizabeth". It is pure symphonic score. Our boss can do it all... He is a world musician... not only bollywood musician as those who are ignorant will say... Regards, Anantha the Dreamer
http://arrtheboss.blogspot.com Samuel Goldwyn - "I read part of it all the way through." On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Jahanzeb Farooq <[email protected]>wrote: > > ... the person put on the map, this time, is AR Rahman. He may find > doors opening to him in Hollywood. But it is still the traditional > symphonic score that drives most of Hollywood, so is important that > Rahman capitalise on his win and bag a few "non-exotic" projects, so > that he doesn't become the go-to guy only when a "Bollywood-style" Jai > Ho number is needed. (This isn't to say that Rahman should reject any > such offers., but he should also look out for projects that allow him > to stretch.) > > perfectly said. these are the exact thought coming to my mind after > his win: even that he has won it, it will not exactly mean that he > will start getting many offers from hollywood. probably only when some > similar asian/indian type of music will be required for some similar > type of asian/indian based film. ARR strongly needs to get a few > traditional hollywood projects (like Elizabeht: The Golden Age) to > show them what he is truly capable of and to get the A-league > directors to hire him. > > --- In [email protected] <arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com>, > Prakash Balaramkrishna > <prakysn...@...> wrote: > > > > http://www.desipundit.com/baradwajrangan/2009/02/21/between-reviews- > a-one-dog-race/ > > > > Comment : 33 > > > > brangan Says: > > > > By the way, I was asked to write an instant editorial on the Oscar > business. This is what I came up with: > > As expected, AR Rahman won the most prestigious film award in the > globe. As expected, he thanked his mother (“Mere paas maa hai,†he > joked, invoking a line from Deewar that, unfortunately, no one in the > audience understood), all his musicians from Chennai and Mumbai, and > above all, God. This is the first time Tamil was spoken on the Oscar > stage (“Ella pugazhum iraivan oruvanukke,†Rahman said, meaning > that all praise goes to the Almighty). This is the first time an > Indian won two Oscars. So it would all seem to add up to something > big. > > But the victory of Slumdog Millionaire is just a flash in the pan, a > sweet little feel-good moment and nothing else. As several people have > pointed out, it’s first and foremost a British film, not an Indian > film, and among the reasons for its success are that it followed the > Hollywood model of storytelling, familiar to audiences worldwide. (The > Bollywood elements were merely spicy gravy.) So the grand night at the > Oscars doesn’t imply that Mumbai will have to gear up for an > avalanche of production crews from other parts of the globe. There’s > Gandhi as a precedent. It won eight Oscars â€" and what happened? It > was nearly three decades before Danny Boyle landed up with his crew > and told a story about India. > > Slumdog Millionaire will go down in Oscar history as a kind of > Rocky, a film that was hugely loved during its time and now remembered > mainly as the film that put Sylvester Stallone on the map. And the > person put on the map, this time, is AR Rahman. He may find doors > opening to him in Hollywood. But it is still the traditional symphonic > score that drives most of Hollywood, so is important that Rahman > capitalise on his win and bag a few “non-exotic†projects, so that > he doesn’t become the go-to guy only when a “Bollywood-style†Jai > Ho number is needed. (This isn’t to say that Rahman should reject > any such offers., but he should also look out for projects that allow > him to stretch.) > > But all that can wait. Let’s just savour his win for now. This is > a moment that’s not likely top be repeated, at least not via > projects made within the country. The wise minds that submit films for > Oscar consideration (in the foreign film category) always manage to > pick movie that underwhelm, so even that solitary Oscar doesn’t look > likely. And this only makes Rahman’s double win so special â€" a > global recognition for a truly global musician. > > > > >
