On 8/30/2009 5:51 PM India Time, _Gopal Srinivasan_ wrote: > This is my first film after the Oscars. So expectations are scary. It's > important to work with a great team to create great music and we've done > that with Blue. What's special about Blue is that it's an underwater > adventure. So, it was very exciting to do this score as a composer. It's > important that you don't get typecast. It's also important to give the > kind of music the film requires and have fun with it! > > Drown into the music of Blue. > > - A.R.Rahman >
I find this message disturbing in the sense that he is thinking in terms of his "Oscar" reputation. That is not like him. Such thoughts are harmful for any creative person, and more so for a sensitive person that our man is. He should remain assured of his creativity and perseverance that have helped him rise from absolutely nothing to rule bollywood and other languages' music industries for 18 years, consistently. The same two assets of him will help him sail through anything through his life. ARR is the Slumdog Millionaire of Music - the real-life rags to riches. He didn't get Oscar by lobbying. Oscar came to him, so many awards found him and came to him - because he was good, he is good and he will remain good. Oscar has got him numbers (e.g. 136,566 imdb users), and there would indeed be many new true fans among these numbers; but these numbers will dwindle as sharply as they rose. SDM that once rose to 52 in IMDB top 250 (may be higher) has already slipped to 73 as on date. The rise in popularity that went to 100+% (I think much higher at some time) is just 6% today. People forget fast. We, his fans of 18 years, are nowhere near those numbers, nor are we going to dwindle like above. We are with him because of his talent, because of the quality and consistency, not because of any Oscar or other awards. He has not got a Grammy so far, but we are with him, and we will remain with him after he got Grammy. An award from him is more like a pleasing statistics about him for us, it doesn't really add to our love for him. It is his music that adds to our love for him. ARR is a habit for his fans, not a passing fad, not a morning newspaper's headline that will be replaced by another headline in next morning's paper. When he composed SDM, i don't think he had been thinking of composing an oscar song or an oscar album. It was just like any other film music for him. Jai Ho, it is said, was any way not for SDM but was composed for Yuvraj, with Jai Ho refrain itself coined by Subhash Ghai. So an album or a song getting Oscar didn't require anything additional done by him. He remained in his elements, true only to his devotion of music, and all those awards made a queue at his doorsteps. Now, thinking in terms of maintaining his awardee reputation is going to restrict his creativity. I feel that when he enters his recording room, he needs to forget that he ever got an Oscar or any award. He needs to become the same pre-roja guy -- simple, honest, experimenting, improvising, doing what his heart says. Just thought like sharing this with all of you. Thanks. -- Rawat
