Seems like people review ARR albums only in 2 ways:
1. Current album is average by Rahman's standards, don't expect a 'Roja' or X Y
Z.
Or
2. Finally Rahman has come up with great music unlike his last projects.
Why on the earth can someone review his albums like normal?
Pravinder.
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> We're glad Beera is the
> song<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>
> with
> which the music album of Raavan opens. No other song on the
> album<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>
> declares
> more joyously that the master, A R Rahman, is back where he belongsin the
> company of Mani
> Ratnam<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>
> and
> Gulzar, where he's once again churned out a thumpingly good album. Of
> course, after the disasters that were Blue, Yuvvraaj and Couple's Retreat,
> anything that sounds remotely fresh will be welcome. But in this case, we
> would say that the relief is well-deserved.
>
> There's no doubt that the songs follow certain trademark Rahman-isms. From
> the lively percussion in Beera, to the angry rock riffs of Behene de to the
> saccharine sweet female voice on Khili re, there's much that old Rahman
> hands will find familiar. Thok de killi, performed by Sukhwinder Singh,
> especially, triggers nostalgia for songs like Dhakka laga from Yuva and
> Paathshala from Rang
> DeBasanti<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>,
> with a similarly energetic chorus line and upbeat
> melody<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>
> .
> Beera, performed by Vijay Prakash, is by far the best track on the album, a
> paean to the Raavan-like character portrayed by Abhishek
> Bachchan<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>.
> Karthik does a splendid job singing Behne de, which has a haunting quality
> that Rahman has not tapped since Roja's Yeh haseen wadiyaan. Just like the
> latter had echoes of the mountains and valleys of the Himalayas, Behne de
> mimics the turbulent flow of a river that can't be controlledonly
> appropriate given that the song compares love to a river that engulfs all
> that venture into it (Behene de ghanghor ghataa/behene de paani ki tarah).
>
> Love seems to be a bit of a villain in Raavan. Ranjha Ranjha, by
> Rekha<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>
> Bharadwaj
> and Javed Ali, also expounds on the helplessness a lover feels (Ranjha
> Ranjha na kar Heere/Jag badnami hoye/patti patti jhad jaawe/ Par khushboo
> chup na hoye), while Kata Kataby Ila Arun, Sapna Awasthi and Kunal
> Ganjawalaopens with a raucous shehnai. It compares a new bridegroom to a
> lamb being led to slaughter. Khili re is a rather conventional love songit
> has a strong classical base, but Reena Bhardwaj's breathy vocals and clichéd
> lyrical motifs of blooming flowers turn it into a bore.
>
> The album (priced at Rs 160) will sound comfortingly familiar to fans who
> were dismayed by Rahman's outputs last year. On the flipside, though, Rahman
> does not break new ground. We like that he's not let a single voice
> dominate, even his favourite Sukhwinder; this is perfectly in keeping with
> the folk vibes of the
> music<http://www.screenindia.com/news/back-where-he-belongs/614962/#>.
> But we wish he would've got at least one soaring, pitch-defying number for
> us to marvel.
>
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