I am sorry if I sounded harsh. The fact is that when I listened to these songs I felt really bad that the songs were spoiled due to bad diction. The fact is that Indian languages are so different from each other that it is rare for people to have equal mastery over both south Indian as well as north Indian languages. I have always believed that to do full justice to a song it has to be sung by people who can sing in that language. If MGS, Chitra are not up to mark in Hindi the same applies to Udit and Sukhwinder in Tamil. Some singers do take an extra effort to sound right like Shreya Ghosal, Sadhna in Tamil. The best example is the song "Unna Vide" by Shreya for some IR movie. I cant recollect the movie name (Some Kamal movie).
BTW do you think ARR will now give an OK to Minmini if she sings the way she sang "Dil Hai Chota Sa" in Hindi. I dont think so. I remember my friends mocking the song. Minmini couldnt get "chota" word right. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:19 AM, taimur.nadeem <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > hi leslie, > you have earlier given a wrong statement that the pronunciaion is not good. > now you have come to the point this is the matter of dialect and accent that > the words seem to be badly delivered. i was surprised when you said > torturous pronunciation of sreekumar that was harsh comment. both the > singers have done justice to the song and A R RAHMAN have spelled magic on > it. top class stuff simple as that. > > regards, > > taimur > > > --- In [email protected] <arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com>, > Leslie D <dorai...@...> wrote: > > > > Upon reading your comment, I went back and heard the song again and I > must > > say I am now more convinced about my comments. Even Chitra is not upto > the > > mark with Hindi diction. "Subah", "Khwab" etc dont sound like a native > > speaker singing it. > > Both of them are excellent singers but when Malayalam is your first > language > > then speaking Hindi becomes very difficult. क,ख,ग is not > > easily distinguishable. Not meant to hurt any Keralites as I am one. My > > parents have been speaking Hindi for 40 odd years and still cant get some > > words right. > > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM, taimur.nadeem <taimur.nad...@...>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > hi leslie, > > > i am not able to understand whats wrong with sreekumars hindi or i can > say > > > urdu pronunciation . he is very much ok , i have listened the song more > than > > > hundred times i found no flaw in the pronunciation . tell me a single > word > > > in the song which can be pointed out as badly delivered by sreekumar. > how > > > you can say it man . its a mind blowing song , just superb no problems > > > whatsoever with the pronunciation. ok goodbye have a nice day . > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > taimur, > > > karachi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
