I used to wonder that musicians were never recognized.This organizers have done the right thing after long time. This will bring out new rahmans and ilayaraja's.Composing is tougher than singing. This will be a great show.
A.R. Rahman lifts our music strandard to Global standard. Dont talk with our own sense. Just analyze how many awards A.R.Rahman had won. The judges who select the person for awards have much more sense than you people have. Its true A.R. Rahman is ruling the Indian music now. R.D. Burman and Illyaraja are great composers in their periods in north and south regions respectively. But A.R. Rahman is the Great of whole Indian music of this generation. by Eddyson Moses(eddymoses04011982@yahoo.com)
R.D.Burman was the only Music director who had the stuff in Hindi Films. His music are the best ever produced in the Hindi films. There is no replacement to his place for the mesmorising music.
Raja is the only Music director who had the stuff in Southern Films and the only musician in India who has the extensive knowledge of both Western,Indian and Folk music. Western composers have declared that he has composed almost symphony like music in all his films. The notes writern by RAJA revels the fact to this effect.
Both RDB & Raja had the in depth knowledge of the Indian Classical as well as the Western Music.
Unfortunately we have to limit them as South & North Indian Musicians.
Now the present so called music compilers /copiers (not composers) like A.R.Rahman who struggles to even write notes are being considered as the best composers. Those who listn to ARR's music carefully will understand there are no of breaks(discontinuity) in any piece. He just cut's & paste the piece from many albums and mask that with a low BGM. I am aware that this requires a high skill..... Then we should be calling him as a good sound engineer not a composer. Few hits from ARR are definetly appriciated but his level is definetly very LOW.
One can easiliy challenge that ARR cannot survice without a computer and a key board. He depends more on the built in Styles in the Key board and copied versions.
The reason why ARR pass the credit to people like Shankar Mahadevan is very evident that SM has much better talent than ARR.
RDB dealt with Icons like Mu.Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Latha, Asha etc..... Raja has dealt and still dealing with ICONS like Yesudas, SPB, S.Janaki,P.Suseela etc. None of these ICONS were over shadowed by RAJA's tunes. In fact SPB had spoken many times that he along with Yesudas, Suseela & S.Janaki had the previlage of working with Raja. MANO, CHITRA, SWARNALATHA, Arun Mozhi etc....were introduced by RAJA and they have come up to a very high level. They were once chorus / track singers!!!
Shame that the genuine musicians are not given due respects and the craps are given high importance in our Country and rediff continues its crap this time in the name of Rediff Entertainment Bureau.
RE:ARR is GOOD but not the BEST
by pradeep antony on Dec 10, 2007 11:53 AM
how do you know ar rahman struggled in writing notes..were you with him in panchathan inn studio on those compositions?? dude, ar rahman has his own place in music industry and so do illayaraja and rd burman. please dont mix it up and compare... for younsters like us, ar rahman is the one and only one who hooked us with the carnatic and hindusthani music.. he's a genius both in artistic and technological ways...
RE:reg:rahman
by Amit Phatak on May 08, 2007 06:59 PM
what has bollywood movies got to do with music scored for bollywood albums.. most of the time good music is wasted on bad movies even in south india.. the bottom line is to enjoy the music independent of the movie.. thats what i've been doing with the music for all movies scored by ARR, SEL, Sandeep Chowta etc.. Why blame the music director for bad movie making..
Plz guys dont compare illayaraja and rahman.Illayaraja is legend and a.r is mastereo in music.What abt Khetahai mera ye dil piya.It is greatest compostion given by a.r rahaman.Tak to mr SPBsir.He is telling (a.r rahman) that good composer now days.What abt DUET, taal songs
One song's starting music was copied from Ace of Base song. Don't tell me ARR dosen't copy. He started off with a bang like Roja, Thiruda Thiruda, Duet, Rangeela etc. But with publicity and fame his music has gone down. I don't feel like listening to Swades or Rang De Basanti everytime like Roja which can be listened to any number of times.
And btw, SD Burman, RD Burman, Madan Mohan, Naushad etc are miles ahead as they gave music in the golden era of music in India. Rahman was just best of the worst in the 90s and now lately even Jatin Lalit and Anu Malik have outscored him in some of their albums.
RE:AR Rahman's music in movie Indian(or Hindustani)
by Anthony L on May 05, 2007 04:21 PM
The so called greats SD Burman, RD Burman, Madan Mohan, Naushad and any Hindi music director copied most of the songs from English, European and South American albums directly. Dont compare if you dont know the facts.
RE:AR Rahman's music in movie Indian(or Hindustani)
by venkat v on May 04, 2007 03:27 PM
u pathetic chappathi eating stupid dumb fvck from the north. STFU. Get out of South. Go back and raise cows in rural north. Get out of the IT centres in the south. You stink of chappathi smell.
RE:AR Rahman's music in movie Indian(or Hindustani)
by Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman on May 04, 2007 03:34 PM
bloody biased and close minded moron not to mention semi literate dumb fellow working in a call center,
i am not from north india. and btw, north indians constitue 55% of the workforce in infosys and wipro. and maharashtra is 2nd highest in IT turnover in India. stfu u becoz u r a dumb ignorant fellow not to mention a piece of shit and an arrogant pr*ck.
RE:AR Rahman's music in movie Indian(or Hindustani)
by Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman on May 04, 2007 03:36 PM
not to mention that southies don't eat chapatis. ha ha ha. idiot ignorant fella. don't let foul smell of ur family cooked sambar spoil the odour of this forum.
RE:AR Rahman's music in movie Indian(or Hindustani)
by Sanjay Priyadarshi on May 04, 2007 03:33 PM
hey venkat,
pls dont bring north and south divide.What he wrote is not 100% correct,in reply to that u are doing lots of harm to other communities.Even south guys are staying in mumbai,delhi,kolkatta,orissa.Its a democracy,everyone has right to stay and search for job any where in India.
RE:AR Rahman's music in movie Indian(or Hindustani)
by RK on May 04, 2007 09:13 PM
Has someone from north faaacked you and didn't pay? You seem to a abnormal guy. You should be banned from this forum.
Dear all, All musicians are great and one cannot compare them to each other. Each one has it's own audience be it for originals or remakes (I don call them copies). The one who appeals to the majority through any of the the popular mediums is termed as successfull. ARR is great coz we make him great. He has been able to discover the pulse of the masses which is the new generation. Mind you my grandpa still won't like him but then granpa's are not in majority..are they? Let's not criticise anyof the musicians here becoz each one is a marketer and he gives that type of music or copies for a reason. Let's say a tamil song becoz of language or marketing problems might not be heard in north at all. But these are the people who transalte them, give them music and make it reach to a wider audiences. What's so strange about that? In dong so, sometimes they fail but most of the times they are popular. Remember music is also an industry with various mediums or channels and consumers. So like any market you'll find all kinds of players here. Players who believe in originality, players who are arbitraguers etc. otherwise how do they make a living of they keep waiting for an original score. I don think anybody listens to ARR in villages coz first the medium is only AIR who cannot afford to play his songs and pay him. Secondly their lives still relates to the music of Madan Mohan, Naushadji and score other great music directors. So let's not fight on who's the greatest and start comparing. Who knows ARR might loose his popularity to the next generation whose needs might be entirely differnt. I already see that happening with kids being more inclined to international music. The likes of Shakeera, Chritina augillera, Jlo, Puff daddy are all global singers now. Their reck in moolah from all the corners of the world through IPRs and shows. We should debate rather as to how ARR can turn into a global singer. He is already making strides towards it and is perhaps aware about this fact. But can he give a music which is equally popular in say costa rica or mexico? Well, as of now, I don think so!
