I have noticed a few people saying that there are many shadow artists working for AR. They claim that these shadow artists 'help' him to compose the tune. Maybe or may not be true. I don't care.
But there is one more serious charge on AR. Recently I came across some Senior people in music industry saying that AR is 'not capable' to compose good and memorable tunes. He is a craftsman, who just adds on many sounds to hide this so-called 'incapability'. It makes the tune's life shorter. So audiance keeps humming Jatin Lalit / Nadim Shravan / Deva / SA Rajkumar songs, though AR's album is a declared hit! Anyway, I have already stopped arguing on these issues, because I don't know music, neither techniques! Mr. Kaushal Inamdar, (is himself a music director, has done some movies and many jingles) has written something on AR's tunes. It was already posted here, but for the reference, I'm just copying and pasting the relevant paras from his original article here. Experts in the group, please explain these things in common man's language. Thanks. *Rahman & His Tunes : Kausal Inamdar.* *From: http://musicandnoise.blogspot.com/2006/09/rahman-i-and-sound-of-music_22.html * I started humming the tunes of Roja, the moment I stepped out of the theatre. The tunes had a great recall value and despite that, I discovered in some time that humming these tunes was not so enjoyable. I did not give it much thought then, but later when Bombay released, and the same phenomenon was repeated, I was curious. In both cases, I had loved the music. It had excited me. And yet humming it was not enjoyable. It was when I was going through an economics book and came across Alfred Marshall's Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility when I broke the 'Rahman' code, and like Perry Mason, I kicked my leg for not getting the solution earlier. Strange? But the truth, no less! Alfred Marshall's law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product - while keeping consumption of other products constant - there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product. So how does it fit into Rahman's composition? It is a technique invented by Illayaraja. I often wondered how I could memorise Illayaraja's tunes so quickly in spite of not understanding the language. And I must confess to having an extremely bad memory when it came to remembering tunes. Using Illayaraja's technique of composition, Rahman's standard composition was broken into short musical phrases which were repeated in different words. Take for example: Dil hai Chhota sa, (Repeat with a minor change) Chhoti si Aasha (Repeat the same phrase) Masti bhari Man ki Bholi si Aasha Now what has happened here is that you have already heard the complete phrase twice. The same formula is repeated throughout the song. Now, what happens in effect is that we are hearing the song twice or thrice in one go! You can compare it to a Salil Chowdhari's song for instance – 'Tasveer teri dil mein'. You'll notice that all the musical phrases in the sign line (dhruvapad) are different. Illayaraja, and later, Rahman used this new technique of composition. It gave a recall value to the tune but also ensured that its shelf life was shorter. Slowly but surely all music directors in the Hindi film industry also started using the same technique. It was a very foolproof technique and you could see that in songs of Anu Malik and Anand-Milind, whenever they were not lifting a composition in toto! But nobody could do it like Rahman and that is what differentiated him from the pack. It is not enough to just have short, repetitive phrases – they also needed to be consistently melodious and this is what Rahman did the best. -- Trusting in God never makes the mountain smaller, it just makes the climbing easier. I never ask Him for the lighter load, but only for the stronger back. - A. R. Rahman. On 5/3/07, Mohamed Yaseer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hahaha....I have discussed with Raffee before regarding the touch of other musicians in ARR's music...Raffee mainly does the programming and suggest beats and loops to ARR.....The song which has the most touch of Mohamed Raffee is Ye Ye Ennaachu from Kadhal Virus....He did programming for Mayilirage and did not compose it....Please don't come out with untruth statements.... ----- Original Message ---- From: kenny korg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 4:11:09 PM Subject: [arr] Re: Who composes tune of a song for ARR? GOMTYA says ARR composes tune of a song for ARR ! Its not true.... At the begining yes its Rahman who compose song for his projects.. Nowadays not all the song done by him.... He just do touch up on the tune made by others.. Example the song *Mayil Irege* in the movie *Anbe Aruyire* the tune composed by RAFI* (SINGAPORE ARTIST). 80% of the song is done by Rafi and the 20% was touch up by Rahman.. Thats why nowadays we cant feel the rahmans Touch in some of his song.. This is the Truth. *Rafi is the one who sing the song *Un Siripinil Pon siripinil *from the movie (*Patchai Kili Muthu Charam)* ** Rahman's Fan Kenny Rogers ------------------------------ Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM-> ------------------------------ Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48245/*http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html;_ylc=X3oDMTE1YW1jcXJ2BF9TAzk3MTA3MDc2BHNlYwNtYWlsdGFncwRzbGsDbmV3LWNhcnM->
-- Trusting in God never makes the mountain smaller, it just makes the climbing easier. I never ask Him for the lighter load, but only for the stronger back. - A. R. Rahman.
