Well said. Reminds me of a dialogue from GURU ' Jab log tumhare baare mein bura
bolna shuru karein, to samajh lo ki tum aage badh rahe ho..."
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From: Chord <purev...@yahoo.com>
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 7:17:12 AM
Subject: [arr] When you are number one, there WILL be a bullseye target on your
back
If happens everywhere. It's the nature of the beast. Jealousy, envy,
whatever it is. When you're the top of the game, THE top, you will
have shots coming your way. It is to be expected.
Rahman is the best. He is receiving lots of attention, praise, etc.
The comments by Mr. Singh to me are not surprising given that I knew
that one of these days, someone would open their mouth and say
something negative about ARR. It was bound to happen. And it WILL
probably happen again. Someone will speak to the media and say
something sarcastic, or negative about Rahman, similar to what Ismail
Darbar said about Rahman a few years ago.
What bothered me about Mr. Singh's comments is that even if he didn't
mean to attack Rahman himself, the way his comments came out sounded
very accusatory and insulting, essentially saying, "What Rahman has
accomplished is really not that great given that he has not composed
ghazals since ghazals are the ultimate and superior form of music".
His tone was arrogant and of superiority. Why couldn't he have just
said "I would love for Rahman to compose ghazals since films today
don't have a lot of them. Rahman is talented and versatile enough to
compose ghazals". It is obvious that Mr. Singh has issues related to
anger and bitterness over his life and the fact that he is not getting
many film assignments. A person of his age and stature shouldn't be
making such impulsive and blunt remarks. I would expect that from a
junior artist or someone much younger.
When people make such comments about how Rahman uses only Western
tunes, did they ever hear his soundtracks such as Water, Earth,
Lagaan, Bose? What about songs like Piya Ho, Naina Neer, Na Shiqua
Hota, Mujphe Toofan, Sarfarosh Ki Tamanna, Desh Ki Mitti, Ghooparani,
Tere Bina, etc. etc.? You would get the feeling that they think that
Rahman only composes songs like Pappu all the time!!
