Considering originality is such a big deal with him, what's his take on the current music market? "It's a matter of sustaining numbers, not originality. If a song clicks with the masses and stays on for three months, it's certainly an achievement for its lyricist and composer. But aaj kal yeh nahin hota hain, even today songs from the '60s, '70s and '80s rule the roost. In my opinion the only composer and singer capable of replicating the excellence of golden oldies today is AR Rahman he is a class apart," he muses.
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