>From where I see it, ARR is far different than both C Ramchandra and Naushad >ali. 'Khili re' doesn't sound like any of their songs.
C Ramchandra's music was way softer than ARR and instrumentation less complex. On the other hand Naushad's music somewhat harder and more often based on Indian Classical. ARR and C Ramchandra are more similar in terms of their experimentation with western music. ARR and Naushad are more similar in terms of the use of Indian classical music. The only time ARR sounded very much like Naushad was in the BGM of Jodha Akbar at a few times (e.g. Akbar goes to Amer). I wish to recite one of the articles (one of real good ones) I once read about ARR in HT, the reporter said: "I consider ARR alongwith Ghulam haider, C Ramchander, O P nayyer and R D Burman as the MDs who changed the trends of music in their respective time period." As far as I know, Ghulam haider brought folk music (including Punjabi) to make difference to that time's music, both C Ramchandra and O P Nayyar brought western music however it was O P Nayyar who really simplified the complex music of that time and made Hindi film music famous in every household (Shankar Jaikishan did the same but OP was OP). RD Burman has never been my favorite, SD was 100 times better for me. There is no point in writing what ARR brought to Indian music. As far as my choice concerns I prefer O P Nayyer above all of them after ARR in terms of experimentation and magical music. It is very interesting and important to know that O P Nayyar never ever used Lata Mangeshkar. I guess music composers can really make a difference with or without good singers. Overall for me; ARR, Naushad and O P Nayyar are the best MDs of India. Warm regards, Pravinder. --- In [email protected], V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote: > > On 5/7/2010 1:07 AM India Time, _AJ_ wrote: > > > 5) Khili Re/Kalvare These type of songs from ARR totally melt > > me........totally make me weak in the knees and only make me bow > > further down to the musical Maestro. > > > only you have the touch to compose a song as delicately as > > this one and with an old world charm melody that in my mind, would > > make Naushad proud. > > Naushad is my other all time fav apart from ARR, but if you are > mentioning for Khili Rey type of songs, I would say that C Ramchandra > was a more appropriate composer to mention compared to Naushad. > > Hope some oldy-goldy fans would put their 2 cents who was a better > master of this genre of songs. > > -- > btw, the sweetness of oldy-goldies is euqally, or more, due to the > sweet voice of Lata ji, as it was due to beautiful melodious tunes > composted by then MDs. > > Sometimes I think what if ARR had been here in 1945-1960 and had got > fresh Lata ji to sing for him when her voice was the raw-est and the > sweetest, they together would have melt the world. > > -- > Rawat >
