I wonder what is happening to your analytical capabilities, AJ. You propose a theory that "ARR worked hard" and "perhaps worked too hard", and then you base your remaining analysis on this, without knowing if it is correct on not.
If you don't like it, it doesn't mean that ARR worked "hard" or "too hard" or "hardly". All those critics of enthiran can also say the same, that ARR worked too hard on enthiran, without knowing whether he had or not. I wonder how could you not see that vandemataram is our national song, and people have a chord attached to it, so we were already willing to someone giving us our national song in the cacophony of other MDs who never bothered about "nation". That helped in people liking it. Vandemataram was in two albums, including janganman, and there were several versions of it in them, so it was not just one composition by ARR. someone might have liked one, other one might have disliked the version the first one liked but might have liked the other one and so on, and thus album had one likeable version for each of all. Tamil theme song, gujarat theme song, 20-20 theme song, it is not the first theme song that ARR had done, so why whould he not grasp all those patriotic and other elements in this particular theme song when he got them all always in other theme songs in right proportions? You are working on theories that might not be your forte and you "are" be aware of facts. You should analyze the song musically as you have musical knowledge and past proven capability to do that. I personally find "did ARR feel truly inspired?" is very offensive and accusing. -- Rawat On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:15 AM, AJ <purev...@yahoo.com > <mailto:purev...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > I really think ARR worked hard on this song, but perhaps worked too > hard, if you know what I mean? His best songs are created when they > are from his heart more than from his head. Was he really inspired > to do a theme song about sports, since I know that ARR was never a > passionate sports fan and didn't follow teams much as a youngster? > > Maa Tujhe Salam and the entire Vande Mataram album was ARR's baby > because it was about India as a country..about the 50th anniversary > and the whole significance of that. ARR, as a very patriotic > citizen, felt very inspired to create a whole album in honor of that. > > In this case, he was "asked" to compose this song. Yes, it's a > patriotic song too, but not in the same emotional league as Vande > Mataram from ARR's perspective. > > It's not fair to compare Maa Tujhe Salam with this song for these > reasons alone IMO. > > I may be wrong about the above......just speculating here.
