>>However, despite having some
>>strong albums with good songs, it seems as if the period between
>>Rangeela and Dil Se did not boast of huge commercial hits
There were only two, Kabhi Na Kabhi (1996), a movie once meant to be his Hindi
debut and was finally resuscitated from the cans and Daud (1997). Not sure what
strong albums with good songs you are referring to. The only dubbed film that
was made for a pan-India market to begin with, Indian did reasonably well in
its Hindi version, musically as well.
----- Original Message ----
From: Chord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:47:01 AM
Subject: [arr] Did Rahman go through a Hindi film commercial lull between
1995-1998?
I may be mistaken, but it seems as if he went through a relatively
down time commercially during that time in Hindi films. I'm not
talking about Vande Mataram (1997) which was a huge hit worldwide, but
this was not a film album. I also know that he had huge commercial
successes in Tamil during that time. However, despite having some
strong albums with good songs, it seems as if the period between
Rangeela and Dil Se did not boast of huge commercial hits. I believe
Rahman went through a similarly down period in Hindi between late
2001-2005 in terms of commercial success, with the notable exception
of Saathiya. Meenaxi, Swades, and Yuva all had mixed responses
commercially, not all out hits IMO. Tehzeeb, Lakeer, LOBS, Nayak,
Love U Hamesha, Bose, MP did not do well at all at the cash
registers. I think RDB broke that down period.
I still believe that the period between 1998-2001 was Rahman's first
and possibly not to be surpassed critical and commercial golden era
relatively in both Tamil and Hindi. Dil Se, Taal, Lagaan, Zubeidaa,
Thakshak, Pukar, 1947 Earth, Doli Saja Ke Rakhana, Alai Payuthey,
Kandukonden. .....what an amazing output this was!
We may be in another golden era now with 3 huge releases along with
recent successes of JA, Jaane Tu, Sakrakkati, but I doubt anything
will surpass the 1998-2001 era.
