Hi friends, With the Remanika jingle being shared and talked about now, I have always wondered if it was ARR who actually composed it.....
I faintly remember to have read in a Malayalam monthly (think it was 'Vanitha') years back that it was Rajeev Menon who had penned the lyrics, composed the tune, sung, cinematographed and directed the the Remanika jingle. Rajeev's mother Kalyani Menon had rendered the female voice........ Jingles for Leo Coffee, Cinthol etc and also the Asianet theme song, have that inimitable A R Rahman signature...... Some of them also reminds us of a few of his later compositions too..... But I do not get that Rahmanish feel in the Remanika jingle...........May be I'm wrong here (because I have it in mind that it is a Rajeev Menon composition !!!)............... I agree that the prelude bit has some ARR like feel to it...... May be ARR arranged the recording or helped Rajeev to fine-tune it or something like that ??? I'm just guessing !!!! So, can someone officially (or quasi-officially !!!) confirm this please ??? -- Warm regards, Pramod.
