For several reasons, blue did not make it into my revered ARR collections....main one being, as a movie it did not have scope for impactful music....ARR somehow managed to give a few good ones though...Fiqrana and Bhoola...rest all did not stand in my mind....
--- In [email protected], "AJ" <purev...@...> wrote: > > Reasons why I like Blue: > > Catchy songs > Couple of nice melody songs > Crafty arrangements > Nice sound range > Multi genre > Attention to detail > Rehnuma, Fiqrana, Bhoola Tujhe are my favorites > > > Reasons why I like Raavan: > Catchy songs > All songs are melodious > Arrangements and sound are spectacular > Attention to detail even more > Folk, earthy, semi classical, ethnic, raw > Emotions are very concentrated > Each song is truly special overall. > > --- In [email protected], V S Rawat <vsrawat@> wrote: > > > > Several members had appreciated Blue music. And now, the same members > > are immersed in Raavan and praising it. > > > > I wonder what exactly one sees/ listens in an album to appreciate it? > > > > Blue and Raavan are quite different. And the difference in them is not > > just technical difference like a difference in classical or bolly > > songs that one can like some of both categories. There are deeper > > differences. > > > > I think the difference in blue and RAavan is that Blue was technically > > great without a soul, there was no inherent unity in those songs to > > weave the songs as a single fabric > > > > On the opposite extreme, Raavan is a unified album. There is a > > underlying common theme in all songs that suggests it could be a > > single song running for 30 minutes in raavan. Raavan is earthly. > > Raavan has given us our ARR of 10-15 years ago back to us. > > > > Raavan has generated a long thread on thiruda thiruda and all movies > > of ARR-Mani got discussed. > > > > Raavan is launching people on a rendezvous, down memory lane, old is > > gold, back to the basics. > > > > Raavan is making people rediscover and re-explore ARR. > > > > What else was discussed with blue? Nothing at all, except that it was > > a technically great album having new types of sounds. > > > > I think all those great and novel sounds are still there in raavan, > > but hardly anybody is talking about greatness and novelty of sounds in > > raavan - because there are so many things in raavan to be talked about > > that its technical supremacy seems to have taken a back seat low down > > in the list of priorities of things that we love to discuss about > > music, about ARR's music. > > > > Nobody has so far asked "where is ARR's signature in Raavan", the way > > we had asked where ARR's signatures were in Pappu. Why so? Because we > > all see ARR's signatures in each and every millisecond of Raavan. > > > > At the time of release of Blue, ARR had given a message about people's > > high expectations after his oscars. > > > > I had written then here that if ARR is thinking of people expectations > > and about oscar, it is a wrong step. I had said that ARR should forget > > people and forget oscars when he enters his studio and he should > > create what his heart says. > > > > Oscars didn't make ARR creative, ARR's creativity brought Oscars to him. > > > > Compare that to Raavan release. No statement by ARR, no mention of > > people's expectations, no mention of oscar (and even grammy) now. > > Raavan got released without a word from ARR. > > > > And Raavan has stirred the ARR-fandom like none of his albums had > > stirred in last 10 years, may be after Dil Se. > > > > I think, with Raavan, ARR has forgotten about people's expectations > > and he has put his awardee status in a corner. He is back to become > > pre-oscar ARR. And his creativity is evident in every beat of Raavan. > > A creativity that has a soul, unlike the sheer technical creativity of > > blue. > > > > Why should ARR explain his music the way he did in Blue? His music > > explains itself to us fans and we understand by listening his music > > when our souls are in touch with ARR's souls and when we are not in touch. > > > > Blue was a album composed by an Oscar winner whereas Raavan is an > > album composed by a humble human being who is a music lover. > > > > It can be said that ARR experimented a lot with Blue. And, an > > experiment never fails. It just gives feedback about our theories, > > confirming some, disproving some other. Seems ARR has taken that > > feedback of blue and has incorporated it in his style of composition > > (not the blue style, but the feedback on blue style) to come up with > > Raavan that has turned out to be abashed heart-stealer. > > > > With so many conceptual differences in Blue and Raavan that make both > > the ablums almost mutually exclusive, how can a person liking blue can > > now like raavan also, and how can a person liking raavan might have > > liked blue also? > > > > Those persons who appreciates everything, their appreciations get > > discounted and they are seen as creating a hype. Everything can't be > > equally great. Such persons need to individually introspect and find > > what he stands for and what he doesn't identify with, and then > > appreciate certain things that he stands for and criticize certain > > things that he doesn't identify with. People can make out what is > > forced appreciation and what is undue criticism. > > -- > > > > Thanks a gig to Mani, he had given us ARR for the first time 18 years > > ago. And he has now re-given us our very same ARR, cured of oscar > > aberration. > > > > -- > > Rawat > > >
