"Rahman's standard" is a term created by some who think they are wiser than anybody else as far as ARR's music is concerned.
Questions:- 1) Who are these people? One who claims to be ARR's true fan and goes around harping on his numbers. 2) What do they do? They would first listen to ARR's music, then place the particular number in one of the two categories which are incidently created by these same people. 3) What are those two categories? One is ARR's EXTRAORDINARY, HEAVENLY songs. Songs which fall under this category are known as RAHMAN'S STANDARD. (You will notice that when positive words such as extraordinary and heavenly are used, a "true ARR fan" would say them in CAPS.) The other category is of course the Non-Rahman Standard which comprises of songs which are "good, in terms of other composers" but ordinary. 4) How do they segregate the songs into these categories? That's simple...if these so called "true ARR's fan" decide that they like a particular ARR number so much, then the particular songs goes to RAHMAN"S STANDARD. If they think a song is simple, good but ordinary, then the song is dubbed as NON-RAHMAN's STANDARD. (Notice that because they keep calling themselves as "true ARR's fan", they would never be caught telling that they don't like an ARR song. Instead they would resort to calling the number as "not upto 'Rahman standards"!) 5) Examples of songs under RAHMAN"S STANDARD and NON-RAHMAN'S STANDARD Cross-refer to the answer to Ques. no 3. above. If you keep finding the numbers which are praised with words such as heavenly, extra-ordinary etc. then they are definitely Rahman's standard songs. Example: Rangeela, Thiruda Thirudas, Jeans, Dilli6, Maa Tujhe Salaam, Vellai pookal, Do kadam, Tere Bina, etc. Songs like Kaise mujhe, Kabhi Kabhi Aditi, Kahin toh, Zindagi,Pappu are on the other hand, songs of NON-RAHMAN standard. Why? Cos' these true ARR's fan feel that they are simple and ordinary. 6) Moral of the story? ARR cannot do any simple, feel-good songs. One which just make you want to sing along with the singers or even make you tap a feet or two.And because he is ARR, thus he can only compose EXTRA-ORDINARY songs which are filled with extravaganza music and excellent compositions. Songs which does not fill in the above requirements are naturally not of RAHMAN'S STANDARD, of course. Hope that answered your query bro. --- On Sun, 7/19/09, $ Pavan Kumar $ <[email protected]> wrote: From: $ Pavan Kumar $ <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [arr] Where is the glorious RAHMAN To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 2:55 AM Ok..we have another term here.. " Rahman Standards" Just curious to know what It means, how it is measured and who sets these standards? --- On Fri, 7/17/09, Radheshyam B <adyarsh...@gmail. com> wrote: From: Radheshyam B <adyarsh...@gmail. com> Subject: Re: [arr] Where is the glorious RAHMAN To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 4:54 AM First of all, a true rahman fan need not like whatever Rahman does. I agree that all the songs that u mentioned are really good when compared to songs by other MDs. But I feel they are not upto 'Rahman standards'. Compare these songs to Bombay Theme tune, Maa Tujhe Salaam, Oru deivam thanda poove, Vellai pookal, Do kadam, Tere Bina etc. When I read these kind of posts, I cant stop thinking why people are so narrow minded. --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, $ Pavan Kumar $ <pawancumarr@ ...> wrote: > > When I read these kind of posts..I don't know how to react..ofcourse. ..It's > really irriatating. ..If you guys are not able to enjoy songs like Kaise > muje, Kabhi Kabhi, Kahin toh, Zindagi, Dil Ka Ristha, or even Pappu, then I > really feel sorry for you guys....I dont have any problem though...these are > your opinions.. > And what do you mean by True Rahman fan? Grow up dude.. > > --- On Tue, 7/14/09, kishore parayath <kishore.parayath@ ...> wrote: > > From: kishore parayath <kishore.parayath@ ...> > Subject: Re: [arr] Where is the glorious RAHMAN > To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 10:37 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thiruda Thiruda is my alltime favourite too. Its TAMIL. > > U r in a way right bro. Ur feelings are exactly the same as many, in this > group. But many dont have the courage to reveal it. I did reveal certain > times, but I was disocuraged. What u said, is EXACTLY the problem with ARR's > music nowadays. And some people dont want to tell it directly, and hence they > hint it indirectly by starting topics like 'Do u want any change in ARR's > Music?' . > > > There are no more Rangeelas, Thiruda Thirudas or JEANS... > > BTW, Dont include Dilli6 in ur list of ordinary albums. DILLI6 was very extra > ordinary. The only thing is that, U will require several listenings to grasp > each song. After grasping it..The songs would HAUNT u... > > > Rehna Tu is my favourite, but MASAKALLI is an entertainment machine.. After > grasping the song, it wont spare u.. It will haunt u like anything!! Its like > a Joyful Ride!! > > ANd listen to the songs 'MEHERBAAN' and HAWA SUN HAWA in ADA... U can > find the heavenly ARR ingredients in them. It was not a commercial movie. In > JODHA AKBAR, KHWAJA MERE KHWAJA is also an EXTRAORDINARY piece! > > > The thing is ARR should stop coming out with ordinary numbers(Which are good, > in terms of other composers, but NOT in ARR STANDARDS).. like KABHI KABHI > ADITI, GUZARISH, PAPPU CANT DANCE , SHANO SHANO, LATTOOO etc!!! > > > But IAM LOVING DELHI6 like anything!! And u can expect a LOT from SHANKAR's > 'ENDHIRAN(ROBOT) ' and MANI RATNAM's 'RAAVAN' .. > > TAIMUR, I must tell u, that u r a TRUE FAN of ARR!! > >
