We all know how pathbreaking and influential ARR's stamp on the film music industry in India has been. Mindblowing innovations of sound, style, form, and genre totally revolutionized Indian film music and we see the trends following even today. Various musical directors from Moitra to SEL to Bharadwaj follow the Rahman formula quite distinctly, while credit must be given to their own unique sounds and styles and contributions.
Let's pretend that ARR never came around to films in the 1990s (thank God that didn't happen). For a while, perhaps, the Anu Maliks and Nadeem Shravans would continue to rule the roost until various new age directors came along. But, even with advanced sound technology and progressive thinking, would these young new MDs be as global sounding and sonically creative as we hear them today without Rahman's previous paths? Even with technology, how do you think the music would sound today without Rahman having been on the scene? This is purely hypothetical and just curious to konw people's thoughts. Obviously, Rahman created history and the rest is history. But, would the music scene eventually get around to the style and sound it has today without Rahman, or we would be continuing to hear the same stale sounds and styles pre 1992, esp. up North?
