--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Gopal Srinivasan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This totals to 103. However, ARR does not wish to count > > i. bilingual movies with no new music, twice. That eliminates one of > Aayitha Ezhuthu/Yuva but Sapnay gets counted > ii. remade movies with same storyline but no new music. That eliminates New, Palnati Pourusham and Vishwa Vidhaata > iii. Nippuravva > > Upon insisting, he agreed that Sajni and Love You Hamesha should be > counted since they were entirely different productions as compared to the original with different storylines and production teams.
But surely this isn't so about Sajni. What is the new musical element? Am I missing songs that I otherwise wouldn't know? If Sajni is just reusing Jodi then it isn't new. Here is a review of Sajni from Rediff. (I, of course, haven't seen it). If it is the same music, but a different movie, then it surely doesn't count as something new and different for ARR. And what about Beauty Palace? Has anyone ever identified a non-ARR composer, or should we continue to pretend that ARR didn't write it but the most humble composer in the history of Indian film music did write it and then faded quietly away forever? Stevan Davies SAJINI REVIEW: by R G Vijayasarathy | February 26, 2007 | 15:14 IST There was a lot of hype around Sajini and that was mainly because A R Rahman had composed the music of the film. And it was for the first time that he was doing it for a Kannada film.Unfortunately none of the tunes are original; he had composed them first for the Tamil film Jodi a film that had Prashanth and Simran in the lead roles. Fortunately, all the songs are well choreographed and well shot. Though Sajini has all the ingredients of a good family entertainer, it doesn't rise above mediocrity. Sajini may not be a scene by scene remake of the Tamil film Jodi, but its story line and script is heavily inspired by it and also the recently released Telugu hit Bommarillu. The main weak point of Sajini is its script.It is quite evident that first time director Murugesh has not done his homework well. The lesson: you cannot make a hit film by just by borrowing from two hit films!
