On 7/19/2008 8:58 AM India Time, _Chord_ wrote: > ARR himself mentioned how proud he was of his work > in JA in interviews. Why would he lie? To be politically correct?
That is when I get sickened to the core when such shallow type of understanding people go with. I said "Music and films went on different directions. Music was personal sort of and film was public exhibitionist sort of." So, ARR can rightly proud of his work as an MD who gave good music. And ARR should realize that he failed to get the feel of the exhibitionist nature of the film and made personal genre of music for it. I wonder how ARR could mess it up. Didn't he know that period movies are all vocal, loud, exhibitionist. I am surprised to find that "The feel of JA music didn't suit the tone of JA movie" is being mentioned in this list for the first time by me. It has been 6 months when the music was released and then the movie was released. Almost all memebers must have heard the music many times and seen the movie at least once. And after 2000 or 5000 posts that you all talked about on JA movie/ music, not a single person can see that movie is going in a different direction than where the film was going? That is an indication of current quality of discussions this group. Just praise ARR, just exchange trivia and tidbit. > Please. The audiences loved the music and I can safely say that 9/10 > families who I know from various parts of India say that the music of > JA is heavy in their listening rotation even today and say that it's > one of the best albums in bollywood recently. Sales don't lie either > as this album has done very well commercially. People loved Om Shanti Om and its music trillion times more than they loved JA movie or music. That doesn't set OSO music any shade better than JA music. I liked 2-3 songs of OSO also somewhat, but they are miles behind the level of ARR's music. Let us not judge the quality of ARR's music by the curves on sales charts. People are stupid because the best works of ARR - 1947 Earth, Water, etc. were commercially flop. > ARR purposely wanted to > create an album that sounded different from Mughal E Azam, I can believe that. He is always hellbent on doing something different. :-) And I like that. That is his identity, his essence. > a type of > musical direction that has not been footprinted on with this type of > movie. I can believe this too. And he succeeded. JA music vs movie is a unique combo that was never there in any period movie. but it failed. soft music got lost in the loud, gaudy movie. > If he came up with a "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya", he would be > accused of trying to copy that song or suck up to the music of that > time. Your argument was going perfectly well and acceptable, but you punctured it right here by stooping to the level of saying that what i wrote was a suggestion that ARR steals Mughal-e-azam songs to reuse in JA. You are very shallow. I should not have bothered reading your mails nor replying to you. so i stop here. > > Love live JA's music. It's one of my all time favorites. Your > opinion is your opinion, but it's part of a very, very small minority. -- V
