On 01-Dec-05 9:03 PM India Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Triply R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I was just recalling how many Rahman projects were > shelved. It is really quite a revelation (or atleast, > it was to me). I seem to have remembered 25 projects, > but I'm sure I missed a couple more. Anyway, here is > my list. Others may add as they will. I havne't listed > movies that he was offered, but didn't do, like > "Yaadein". I haven't listed movies he was rumored to > do, like "9 Nelalu" in Telugu. I also have resisted > adding "Godfather" to this list!! Maybe I should check > out Gopal's Tripod page for more... come to think of > it, I should have done that before I made this list!! > > 01. Theekul Viral Vaithal - Starring Prabhu Deva, > directed by Rajiv Menon. Supposed to have been his > second movie, after Minisara Kanavu > > 02. Mudal Mudalaga - Arvind Swamy, Dont remember the > director, but it was one of the 100 movies that was to > have Arvind Swamy & A R R > > 03. Engineer - Arvind Swamy - This one ran into a lot > of problems. I remember that they shot half the movie > and then had to rewrite the entire script, cos some > other movie that released had the same story... I > think both were lifted from "A Walk In The Clouds", if > I'm not mistaken. It was later shelved. Very recently > there were rumors of it being revived, but I guess it > isn't so. > > 04. Tara ram pum pum - Preity Zinta - Directed by > Shekar Kapur. Supposed to have been Preity Zinta's > debut flick. > > 05. Yelelo - Directed by Partiban - This one was on > and off quite a few times, if I recall correctly. > > 06. Pop Album with Colonial Cousins - Part of a Sony 3 > album deal of which Vande Mataram was probably the > first. > > 07. Pop Album with Asha Bhonsle - Rahman still says he > will do it when he comes up with something worthy of > Asha Bhonsle... maybe the Rahman way of saying "Not > right now. Maybe later". > > 08. Album in Bengali - Matthew Islam said Rahman was > to do this album. > > 09. Taj Mahal IMAX - In limbo. May show signs of life > soon.
I think that with Akbar Khan's Tajmahal getting released, the above might never get made. > > 10. Ram - Would have been Rahman's first Kannada film. > Arjun Sarja and Madhuri Dixit starrer. > > 11. Ittefaq - Dont remember much about this. > > 12. Waqqaya - DOnt remember much about this either. > > 13. Shikar - Jackie Shroff & Shah Rukh Khan. Directed > by the Subash the Ghai. Songs may have been reused in > Taal. Isn't Subhash Ghai now making a movie named Shikaar or Shikhar? That could be the above movie. > > 14. Motherland - Directed by the Subash the Ghai. > Again shelved. > > 15. Rajiv Menon's dream project on the weavers of > Kanchipuram > > 16. Robot - Kamal Hassan. Directed by Shankar. In > limbo. Keeps getting delusions of life from time to > time. > > 17. The Return Of The Thief Of Bhagdad - Megastar > Chiranjeevi. Could have been Rahman's first > composition for one of India's most versatile actors. > Again, in the funny place called limbo. The above was a surprise. So much hype about it at that time, and then it gets dropped. Anyway, I was never much optimistic about the movie, solely on the basis of its stupid title. > > 18. 9:30 - 10:00 - Directed by Vasanth. I dont even > know how to pronounce the name!! > > 19. Rashq - Aamir Khan & Shah Rukh Khan - Directed by > Raj Kumar Santhoshi. A failed attempt at bringing the > best Khan and the most popular Khan together. > > 20. Jaggubhai - Rajnikanth. Directed by K.S. > Ravikumar. Rajnikanth - K.S.Ravikumar... 'nuff said!! > > 21. NDTV Theme album - Announced during the launch of > the 24 hour NDTV news channel. No hope now. > > 22. Mangal Pandey soundtrack: The background score of > the movie. Not likely now that the movie is a flop. Today's newspaper reports that they are releasing for foreign viewers a 2 hours trimmed version of the film in which all songs have been cut. I really wonder how could anyone cut Title song? Especially the part in which he is taken for hanging. Cutting that will create a discontinuity in the script. Boy, those producer/ director were always out of their minds, it seems. > > 23. Prashant - Prashant - The movie after his Star. If > this was to include dubbed songs again, we are lucky > it didn't release. Prashanth would have become the dub > star of Rahman... Jodi, Star and this, if it was to > be. > > 24. Samjhautha Express - Amitabh Bachchan - Rakesh > Mehra or whatever he spells his name as now. Would > have been Rahman's first score for Big Bachchan?. > > 25. The Last Revolutionary - Abhishiek Bachchan > > That's my list!! Anymore? I feel that it is time that ARR produces a movie to get a free hand in composing its music. Several MDs of the past have produced movies. -- Rawat ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Life without art & music? Keep the arts alive today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/rG9bLB/dnQLAA/n1hLAA/iyUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrahmanfans/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
