I agree that "Jai ho" is not a great song in Rahman's standard, but I believe it's certanly a great WESTERN song! Who can put the spanish lyrics, roaring drums, high pitched Jai ho in a standard song? It's a tribute song for the bollywood, you can trace the elements from 60's to todays music in bollywood. Only minus thing is the mixing & editing is not upto Rahman's standard which because of he took only 1/5th of his standard time for SDM's music! But yet, SDM is soundtrack for a hollywood movie...
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Bivin Chandra <bivinchan...@...> wrote: > > New Delhi, Apr 7 (PTI) The world might be ga ga over A R Rahman's Oscar > winning composition 'Jai Ho' but legendary Ghazal singer, Jagjit Singh finds > the song overrated. > > The 68-year-old legend who is famous for his candid nature believes that > getting the Academy award was a golden moment in Indian history but the song > per se did not deserve the honour. > > "Getting an Oscar is no doubt a great achievement but the song, for which we > got the award, is not so special. Frankly I did not understand on what basis > it was awarded," Singh told PTI at a function where he released his new album > 'Inteha.' The Ghazal maestro, said that he did not understand the lyrics of > the composition and why it has become so popular that everybody from Indian > political parties to International pop bands is eager to use it. > > When referred that lyrics for the song has been penned by Gulzar with whom he > has given many hits, Singh said, "When I work with Gulzar Sahab I > categorically tell him to write such poetry which my fans and I can > understand." Singh, who has composed some hit music for films like 'Arth' and > 'Saath Saath' in the 80's does not seem to have a good opinion about today's > Bollywood music as he stated, "it lacks profound poetry and soulful tunes". > PTI > > > http://www.ptinews.com/pti/ptisite.nsf/0/2B0F45FB835F7D7065257591002EB0FB?OpenDocument >
