On 5/5/2010 7:28 PM India Time, _accountsjk_ wrote: > At the outset, I am a very old fan of ARR. From Roja days and still buy his > CDs on the first day of release. However, Raavan for me was very ordinary. > Lets be honest here - how many agree with me on the following > > 1. The songs sound like 'I have heard them before from ARR. It did not feel > new.
Yes, I am also feeling that in every song, still the songs are no outright repeat/ copy of any other previous songs. These are new songs and have their own merits. the feeling of deja vu can appear due to many reasons, one being use of the same instrument(s) or raga. If that means ARR uses one instruments and one raga only in one song ever, that will be infeasible. > > 2. Where are the lovely melodies? I miss the romantic, smooth ARR melodies > that captivated us before Khili Rey is purely lovely melody. Ranjha Ranjha is soft and sweet. Kata Kata has Ila Arun's part as a lovely melody, behne de has good melody, so out of 6, there are 3 songs having melody. What more can I want. ARR has given many melodious songs, so many that many people fell that Khili Rey itself pales in comparison to them. songs have to fit the screenplay. If it had been a love story, then more lovely melodies were required, but as this is a goon's story, more rough-tough songs are required, so much so that Mani even chopped 2-3 songs that might have been lovely melodies. > > 3. Too garish and loud with no substance in some songs? When Endrendum > Punnege in Tamil was released, it took us by shock. What music it was. Is > there any such 'Wow factor'. I doubt. Yes, garish (what that means?) and loud, and that is a new thing by ARR in a single album. And please describe what you mean by substance. If lyrics bring substance, then lyrics of this album are great, if new sounds, arrangements bring lyrics, then behne de has such an absorbing sounds that had never been heard before. I do feel the wow factor. This is vintage rahman of mid 90s back to us. > > Awaiting Endhiran to see how the ARR - Sankar combination has worked things > out. -- Rawat
