I do not know how this has surfaced but I have been having exactly the same complaint with that song. The word Armstrong did not suit in that song. After so many years, it still sounds out of place. -Raghu
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Amrish Deep Ravidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All, > I think that this is the first time I have come across a topic where a > celebrity has something not so nice to tell about our Mozart. It is > quite surprising as this is the first ever since I had started browsing > have I come across a negative comment on Rahman. > > Its purported that Vairamuthu had mentioned on Hariharan saving his song > from Rahman in the movie Ratchagan... (Hope its not true). Was there any > backlash between Rahman and Vairamuthu sometime in the past? Do you > think that Vairamuthu's comments make any sense? > > The following is the excerpt from Behindwoods > > The press meet of Saran's directorial venture Modhi Vilayaadu was > held on Saturday evening at the Green Park hotel in Chennai. The movie > has Vinay and Kajal Aggarwal in the lead. Nearly 60% of shooting has > been completed. The movie will mark the return of Saran after quite a > gap. His last film was Vattaram which could > > not do much at the box office. Following that he went through a bad > phase where he says, many people took advantage and cheated him. > Speaking at the function, he said that the tough times had taught him > the true colors of a few people and that the lessons he had learnt had > transformed him. He claimed that we would all see a new Saran in Modhi > Vilayadu and that his career will be remembered in two phases, pre-Modhi > Vilayaadu and post-Modhi Vilayadu. > > Vairamuthu was also present at the function and spoke in an > uncharacteristic manner, ruffling a few feathers. First he hailed the > debut of singer Hariharan and Leslie Lewis (the colonial cousins) as > composers. He then went on to describe in a metaphoric way how it was to > work with different people. He said that some people literally squeezed > his work out of him like sugarcane juice extractors while there were > others who came like honeybees and took what they needed without causing > much hurt. He recalled that for the film Ratchagan (Nagarjuna, Sushmitha > Sen), he had written the `Armstrong' song and that Rahman was > not at all happy with the `Armstrong' word as he thought it to > be too hard which he felt would spoil the melody of his tune. Even after > trying a lot, he was not convinced and wanted the word changed. It was > then that Hariharan (who went on to sing the song) intervened and said > that the word was indeed quite good. Vairamuthu pointed out that this > upset Rahman quite a bit. He thinks that it was Hariharan's timely > intervention that saved his work from being fiddled with. He finished > off by saying that in Hariharan and Leslie he was able to see elements > of the great Vishwanathan-Ramamurthy combination and wished them all the > best. >
