Music has a visual element in it. And, Oscar winner A R Rahman is trying his
best to make sure that his songs get good visual treatment in the movies he
works in. “I’m very concerned about the visual treatment,” disclosed Rahman,
releasing the soundtrack of Couples Retreat, “My fans get very agitated when my
work gets wasted. I get angry e-mails asking me why I worked on films that
don’t utilise my songs properly. I’m actually cool with it, but my fans
aren’t!”
Rahman described the experience of working on his first mainstream Hollywood
film as “fantastic”. “I enjoyed doing Couples Retreat because of the freedom I
got,” he said, “Also, the budget - in terms of orchestra — was flexible so that
I could get exactly what I wanted, musically.” The Mozart of Madras also had to
slightly change his work timings to ensure that work finished on time. “I
worked on weekends too,” he said with a smile, “That was funny!”
Later, talking exclusively to CT, Rahman stressed that he did not want exotic
names when he was composing music for Gautham Menon’s Vinnaithaandi
Varuvaaya. “I particularly did not want to use new singers just for the sake of
it,” he said, “I wanted the local bunch of singers to go to the next level, and
that’s why I used most of them in this album. Of course, Alphonse — who sang
the Malayalam song — was an exception.”
Source : Times of India - Chennai times
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