We all know that there's always been a bad relationship between fans of A.R. Rahman and Harris Jeyaraj. Fans of Rahman has always something to say about Harris being a copycat, claiming that Harris has lifted many tunes of ARR and many other artists. And fans of Harris in return would deny everything and say that they mere coincidence. Many of them get irritated and start saying thing about our ARR! Claiming that he took tunes from the west and stuff! This is what is happening ever since Minnale was released. In fact this was all started by the press saying that Minalle sounds like ARR's work.
What I understand is, some ARR fans are actually afraid of losing the no.1 spot to HJ (like that will ever happen). They try to create a bad name for HJ so that it will be difficult for him to reach the no.1 spot. This is all out of jealousy. Let's not condemn other composers to make ARR no.1. ARR is no.1! He don't need to be the best while others are bad. It would be like getting no.1 rank in a class with others failing everything. Let him be the best among the best. Let's stop condemning HJ. Take this youtube user for example (http://www.youtube.com/user/20053529). All he does is posting video proofs of HJ being a copycat. Well, that's his wish. But he's constantly comparing HJ with ARR. He even uses vulgar words against HJ fans. This creates a very bad impression on us, A.R. Rahman's loyal fans. There many site like this. Whether he copies or not is not our business. Why hurt other people's feeling. Even A.R. Rahman himself would not like this. Just my opinion. I hope that a healthy discussion will go on..
