Jagan.... I am agreeing with ur opinion...but still would say that it's a
open forum and people/fans will provide their opinion.....

Everybody can put their thoughts in this forum that might show their
knowledge or illiteracy.

Arijit
2009/3/21 jagan nath <[email protected]>

>      Dear Rawat,
>
>     The exact reply for your query i think is - "We are not so knowledged
> to analyse ARR's music."
>
> AR's music is divine and we cannot judge divine power. We dont have enough
> knowledge to judge his music. Thats the truth.
>
> Jai Ho
> Jagan
>
>
>
>
> >
> > --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. 
> > com<http://in.mc949.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com>,
> V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote:
> >> On 3/12/2009 3:11 PM India Time, _Jahanzeb Farooq_ wrote:
> >>
> >>> in fact we watched
> >>> JA together and during Khwaja mere khwaja as I mentioned that music
> >>> is by ARR, he said I did not see anything special (sadly enough. may
> >>> because it was in bad quality. also we know that ARR's music grows
> >>> but he does not)..
> >> I am a known JA basher so I thought I can say about this song also.
> >>
> >> khwaja song might be holding additional value for muslims due to its
> >> religious connotations, and for general fans it might have got some high
>
> >> weightage due to the anecdotes of ARR having composed it already and
> >> then AG using it in the film.
> >>
> >> But as a song, I find khwaja song quite barren and monotonous if I can
> >> say that. It is a sort of "introvert" song giving a feel that a person
> >> must be singing it within his heart and mind. It is his personal
> >> pleasure. Others would not be able to connect to it.
> >>
> >> Firstly, the song has some 1:20 initial alaaps that are quire boring to
> >> say and kill the entire beauty of song that comes after that. It is more
>
> >> like the sounds generated when a player "tunes up" his instruments
> >> before starting to really play it up. Such a long wasted part is a sin
> >> in current busy time. Those "ya khwaja ji, moinuddin, gareeb nawaz" are
> >> without any lyrical or music value". So, I think the start itself is
> >> badly thought up.
> >>
> >> But then the song starts with lovely music BUT, BUT BUT poor lyrics. A
> >> typical lack of creativity in the monotonous, "logically-built up"
> >> lyrics as is usually the case with Javed Akhtar.
> >>
> >> Khwaja Mere Khwaja
> >> Dil Mein Sama ja
> >> Bebaso ki Taqdeer
> >> Tu ne hai sawari
> >>
> >> There is no rhyming, no deep devotion. All that "dil mein sama ja" type
> >> of phrases had been used a 1000 times in cheap ladki-pataao songs in 60s
>
> >> and here he comes up with that in a 21st century devotional song.
> >>
> >> I would say that the major failure of the song remains in the poor
> >> lyrics. Then, it fails in arrangements of vocals. None of the voices
> >> carry and ethos and pathos. They are just singing an any song, not a
> >> religious song for the most respected muslim personality of Indian
> >> subcontinent. pronunciations are also not clear. that bebaso ki taqdeer
> >> tu ne hai sanwari, has bebaso and tu ne pronounced so pooorly that one
> >> has to strain to hear it and make the meaning of it. Sad that it is our
> >> man himself.
> >>
> >> And then "Tere darbaar mein khwaza noor ko mainne dekha" has noor
> >> pronounced so poorly by our man himself, and then there are alaaps, and
> >> then the music gives the impression that the line is going to be
> >> repeated, tere darbar mein khwaja - but they drop the line
> >> unceremoniously and begin another line - sar jhukaate hain auliya.
> >> What was so great in mentioning that auliya sar jhukate hain, so what,
> >> is that why you feel respect for him? I think the respect should have
> >> come from within, not due to seeing how others are respecting him.
> >>
> >> and then "tu hai xxxx khwaja - rutaba hai pyara" chahne se tujhko
> >> mustafa ko paya" that xxx is still not clear to my aging ears. and
> >> lastly that "hai mere peer ka sadqa, tera daman hai thama," tali hai
> >> bala hamari, chhaya hai khumar tera, jitna bhi rashq karein beshaq, to
> >> ab hai XXX mere khwaja, tere kadmo ko mere rahnuma nahin chhodna gawara.
>
> >> I don't get what exactly is the concept. No rhyming, no poetry, just
> >> some words have got hammerred in. It must be the poorest lyrics by
> Javed.
> >>
> >> I would say that ARR's voice is also not as sweet enough as he is famed
> >> for, there is a rare shrillness, a hollow in ARR's voice that I don't
> >> remember having heard in any other song. May be he was trying a new
> >> voice but it didn't suit my ears.
> >>
> >> all the internal aalaaps also are confusing, making it a classical song.
>
> >> They are not even bringing a sense of a trance.
> >>
> >> And as I already said once that JA music was a personal music and didn't
>
> >> reflect the lavishness of the film.
> >>
> >> I think I can describe now what I meant by that personal vs lavishness.
> >> Listen to the music between 3:40 - 4:05. That Persian sort of. Now, that
>
> >> is what I call a royal music, that has lavishness, that has luxury, that
>
> >> is group music, public music. Also the instrument that stars playing at
> >> the backdrop at about 6:10 and continues till the end of song. that
> >> single instrument is giving a royal touch to the song. That type of
> >> music is what I expected to be everywhere in JA music and background,
> >> but no, we didn't get that. Our man had different ideas about music
> >> suitable for the emperor of India. Compare the above two sounds to the
> >> sound at 1:20-1:45. Now this 1:20 sound is what I call a personal sound,
>
> >> lacking royal touch. It is a commoner's, a poor man's sound, now
> >> suitable for a period film.
> >>
> >> Seeing so many members liking the song so much, mentioning it as their
> >> most fav song, etc., I tried to listen to it several times, but this is
> >> one song of ARR that I found lacking in almost each and every aspect.
> >> --
> >>
> >> Compare that to D6's Arziyaan. Now, Arziyaan is a prayer song that
> >> carries you with it and you forget yourself love the journey . perfect
> >> sounds, music, emotional voices, all pathos, stopping just short of
> >> melodrama of so many manmohan desai's religious songs. I wonder what
> >> those who had loved khwaja feel about Arziyaan? One can't go on liking
> >> every song otherwise it becomes a hype. One has to love some songs and
> >> find some other songs not up to the mark, only then his appraisal of the
>
> >> songs appear realistic.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rawat
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Pradeepan.
>
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