Quite some time for a blog though. I thought of trying music this time. I am just getting a feeling that all my blogs always on the gloomier side of the subject. I love to hear songs. Infact I could have put a headphone as my identification mark on my documents. But off late I am listening only to Tamil songs and sometimes Telugu. I really miss those terrific sounds of other music. I always find it interesting to see how people overrate one. Let me take my word back. It is actually under rating many. It all started with the "Asian Mozart". He scored music for Broadway musical, Couple of Foreign films. Etc... But tell me did you really like his Western compositions? Or did he really do western composition? His Broadway musical is Infact a conglomeration of his Super hit Indian compositions. Even the story line of the play was indianised. Where does Western come here? I think they meant the audiences. This is not to disrespect anyone. Infact I go head over heels to hear ARR music. Most of the current Indian Composers are popular among public for their songs and not BGMs. Gone are the old days where R.D. Burman stirred us with his score. Gone are the days where you imitate the on screen character with an Ilaiyaraja masterpiece in south. Forgive me for missing out Many Doyens. Once Harris Jeyaraj, a very popular composer among youth in south told that Scoring BGM is tough but thankless job. If a composer From a Genre of Music Directors who uses part of their song or songs for all kind of Circumstances in a movie BGM says this, imagine scoring an original BGM. All the songs of the Mega hit movie down south "Chinna Thambi" by IR was finished in a day(All song wet on become chartbusters). But it will take weeks to finish rerecording for a movie. It is really sad to see RDB or IR never got any recognition. So Can you do justice in a place where you are completely out of place? The case with Beethoven, Mozart or even Yanni is entirely different. They do the music to do the talk. But we are sprinkling sound with lyrics. We all know Lakshmi kanth- Pyari Lal. Their Music for a south Indian film "Ragasiya Police" went unnoticed even with an appreciable composition, because they could not connect with the music of the place, tradition. Even IR flopped miserably outside south for the same reason. In that case ARR is musical genius. He connects with the whole Indian subcontinent well. He has the talent to stay with the culture and liking of the people. Then why should he try to establish him in a place where he has no chemistry. Why is he trying to do that at the expense of his expertise? I am not sure, he has given south anything to celebrate apart form the recent “Sillunu oru Kaadhal” (SOK) in Tamil. So it is High-time that he changes his track and comeback to his home turf. I should also add that we should not judge our talent based on the fame they get on western world. I am sure Rani mukarjee in “Black”(Hindi) and Meera Jasmine in “Kasthurimaan” (Malayalam) showed tremendous acting prowess than Bruce wither spoon in ‘Walk the Line” .One more thing I noticed in Tamil music is Rap is the only form of Western music that exists. All they know is a rap music which goes completely irrelevant to the situation in the movie. Infact HJ is the only one who tries to give us something outside this Rap genre. I recently heard his album “Unnale Unnale” and it was refreshing break from stupid remixes and raps. I hope soon our music directors will stop brutally assaulting us in the name of remixes (it is a gross violation of intellectual rights for me!). Why don’t they do their job for which they are getting paid for?
HJ- Harris Jeyaraj, IR- Ilaya Raaja, ARR-A.R.Rahman, BGM- Back Ground Music
HJ- Harris Jeyaraj, IR- Ilaya Raaja, ARR-A.R.Rahman, BGM- Back Ground Music
