Roja's Rahman faded? Nah....Here is the Answer ! In one of the interviews, A.R.Rahman said that a composer who moulds his music that suits the idiosyncrasies and tastes of the audience belonging to that moment would be a failure in the long run but at the same time a composer who can mould his music to suit the contemporary audience as well as satisfy the old generations can definitely come out as a winner and will last for a long time ! and yu know what ! This is a widely acclaimed fact !!!
Roja came in 1992, which was almost 16 years ago when there was an audience acclimatized to the classical music and folk.....The sound of Roja was completely new...it was like a whiff of air for the audience used to those genre and accepted Roja which created waves in the music world and established a new horizon in composing music ! In Roja's music, Rahman explored various raagams like *Des, Kapi, Yaman Kalyani* which are purely carnatic....the mathruk of the song was the raaga but the flavour is something which is unheard ever before....Actually this is the basic mantra in analyzing Rahman's music and which demarcates his stature from the lot !! For example, Ilaiyaraja composes a song in *Kalyani*...he sticks to it throughout the song....but Rahman is totally different.....If he starts a song with a raag he rarely sticks to it....the chain of raags keep on instigating in the song...for example, Kannamochi Yennada from Kandukondain Kandukondain starts with *Sudha Dhanyasi* and then flows to *Nattkurinji*and then deviates to *Lalitha*, then again yu hear some other thing....which is totally an absurd to do in the books of a carnatic musician But thatz where his success lies....and he stuck to that through out his career till date...Even in Ada, I can see a song(Hawa) which starts with *Hamsadhwani* and then shifts to *mishra Kalyani* ! One has to accept this coz ARR had redifined the barriers in the music school ! COURTESY :- RAGHAV -- regards, Vithur ARR -- The Sweet Cube always
