Yes the title song Muqabala Muqabala really took the whole nation to storm, I have seen this personally in Pakistan. Those were my school days, the song always brings back lots of sweet memories from that period. I remember having a cassette with up to 8-9 different version of the song, including two originals and the rest lifted by Bollywood composers. Such a huge phenomena was the song. Besides the Urvashi song from the same movie, my next experience of ARR was (may not be in right order) songs Chandarlikha and Pyar kabhi na tode ge from Chor Chor, Milgaye milgaye from Love Birds, Roop suhana lagta hai (Anu Malik's rearranged version) from Gentleman, Khili chandni from Priyanka and Kehna hi kya and Ek ho gaye from Bombay. All these were dubbed movies. Only then there came Rangeela.
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, V S Rawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, yeah, technically. > > But as you rightly said that ARR was a well established name in > Bollywood Hindi music by that time. Roza did well in connoisseur circles > and even though its Rukmini was found quite catchy, it was not the fav > of street masses. But street masses did rally behind Humse Hai Muqabla's > title song that got copied by Rajesh Roshan and Anu Malik that can be > taken an indication of its popularity and I had even seen a full > cassette titled muqabla muqabla which had various copied and remixed > versions of the song. Hindi Film bombed badly so it didn't help ARR and > the song. In fact, there was so much confusion about it that the masses > could never really identify which song is ARR's original, so ARR got > identified with all muqabla songs, even the copied once. Divine justice. :-) > > Thus, I think no special credit needs to be given to RGV for taking ARR > in Rangeela. RGV rather cashed on on ARR's popularity. > > And, Rangeela also has Babu Lo Chal Gaya dubbed from Super Police (guess > that was the name). So, "original" hindi music wud also not go fully in > Rangeela. > > Though I happily concede that Rangeela was a good movie. > > -- > Rawat > > On 6/15/2008 10:09 PM India Time, _Vikram Kumar_ wrote: > > > Technically he did introduce A.R. Rahman into hindi fiml industry as > > Rangeela was the first original HINDI OST for Rahman (All previous > > movies were dubbed ones). But A.R. Rahman was much famous in Bollywood > > before that. I guess Rangeela came out around 13 years back... and i had > > bough the audio cassete for A.R. Rahman;s music at that time > > > > Another charge against him is that he has become complacent. He > > introduced talent like A.R. Rahman, Anurag Kashyap, Jaideep Sahni > > and Manoj Bajpai and then let them go away. "I didn't create any > > talent. I just used them at a point of time. I never had a team and > > will never have," at times his quotes have as much precision as his > > editing patterns. > > http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/06/15/stories/2008061550210500.htm > > -- > > regards, > > Vithur > > > > HELP EVER; HURT NEVER; > > LOVE ALL; SERVE ALL > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Vikram >
