On 6/12/2009 9:44 AM India Time, _Gayathri Chandrakasan_ wrote: > I completely agree with the author as far as AR Rahman's music in Delhi6 > is concerned. They were simply magnificient, esp the Masakali number. I > didn't really think much of Masakali when I first heard it but the for > some reason, the song kept playing in my head and I kept humming it. But > as time goes, I just fell in love with the song...the moment i hear the > song today I just have to increase the volume and sing along with it. > And Rehna tu was awesome as well...if a song can be called as elegant, > then Rehna Tu is simply the most elegant song I've heard in recent times.
wow. Gayathri ji, you prompted me to confess the same. I also had not held maskali in high esteem when I had heard it first. I like soulful, emotional songs from our man, and I first thought this was sort of a catchy song for street guys or kids or teens really ;-) a la pappu can't dance, so I had "left out" such songs for them and didn't hear it much then. I have still not hear these much, but maskali indeed went on to become so popular that it kept on reaching my ears anywhere I go, and now I say that maskali holds a new milestone in ARR's creativity and uniqueness. He could come up with such a song - the anecdote has it that it was ARR who initiated to have a song on the pigeon - without the director asking him, and what lovely freak out style it has been rendered - those phurr phurr - if the lyrics had not been so particular in describing a pigeon, anyone would have been thought it to be a song cheaply teasing a sexy girl on the road - he he he - a la old cheapos like "kaan me jhumka chal me thumka kamar ke choti latke". So, now I can appreciate how so highly creative ARR went to give masakali. Thanks for helping me think about it and say it. -- Rawat
