Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks From: Vithur vith...@gmail.com To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented and polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. Number 9: Iruvar Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) Number 8: Alaipayuthe Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. Number 6: Delhi-6 For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam later. A wonderfully varied and nuanced track if you ask me. That and Dev D will take time to be replaced in our iPods. Number 5: Bombay No surprises here. A critical and popular success in every language. Wikipedia adds these bits of trivia: The track Bombay Theme from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed, arranged and conducted by A. R. Rahman. It was recently featured in the soundtrack and score of the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, released in 2005. It has appeared on several compillation CDs since the film's release including on Volume 5 of the chill-out compilation Café del Mar, released in 1998. It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000. The soundtrack also found success in its dubbed versions. Number 4: Lagaan What did you say? A three hour musical about a cricket match? HELL YEAH! The L.A. Times spokes for us all when they said: Ashutosh Gowariker's glorious Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India is to the Bollywood musical epic what Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was to the period martial arts action adventure: an affectionate homage to a popular genre that raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme and a sophisticated style and point of view. Most crucially, its songs and dances are not mere interludes inserted in the action, bringing it to a halt--a Bollywood trademark--but are fully integrated into the plot and marked by expressive, dynamic singing and dancing that infuse a historical drama with energy and immediacy. Number 3: Rang De Basanti Did you know that Nelly Furtado was, at one point, lined up to perform on the album? And while the movie didn't repeat the Oscar nomination success of RDB, it did get a couple of tracks on to the long list. Super super album. Number 2:
Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
lolDude did u read the P.S.of the article One cant jus restict TOP 10 when it comes to ARR's compositions On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Asmin asmin...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks -- *From:* Vithur vith...@gmail.com *To:* arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM *Subject:* [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukuthttp://blogs.livemint.com/members/Sidin-Vadukut.aspx - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last posthttp://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/lounge/archive/2009/02/23/what-is-ar-rahman-s-greatest-ever-film-soundtrack.aspx. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented *and *polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: *Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda* A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. *Number 9: Iruvar* Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) *Number 8: Alaipayuthe* Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. *Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam* Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. *Number 6: Delhi-6* For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam later. A wonderfully varied and nuanced track if you ask me. That and Dev D will take time to be replaced in our iPods. *Number 5: Bombay* No surprises here. A critical and popular success in every language. Wikipedia adds these bits of trivia: *The track Bombay Theme from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed, arranged and conducted by A. R. Rahman. It was recently featured in the soundtrack and score of the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, released in 2005. It has appeared on several compillation CDs since the film's release including on Volume 5 of the chill-out compilation Café del Mar, released in 1998. It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000. The soundtrack also found success in its dubbed versions. * *Number 4: Lagaan* What did you say? A three hour musical about a cricket match? HELL YEAH! The L.A. Times spokes for us allhttp://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie33006may10,0,6839824.storywhen they said: *Ashutosh Gowariker's glorious Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India is to the Bollywood musical epic what Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was to the period martial arts action adventure: an affectionate homage to a popular genre that raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme and a sophisticated style and point of view. Most crucially, its songs and dances
Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
Shocked to see 'Taal' missing!!! Remove Delhi 6 and put Taal.. -jiban --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Asmin asmin...@... wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks From: Vithur vith...@... To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented and polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. Number 9: Iruvar Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) Number 8: Alaipayuthe Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. Number 6: Delhi-6 For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam later. A wonderfully varied and nuanced track if you ask me. That and Dev D will take time to be replaced in our iPods. Number 5: Bombay No surprises here. A critical and popular success in every language. Wikipedia adds these bits of trivia: The track Bombay Theme from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed, arranged and conducted by A. R. Rahman. It was recently featured in the soundtrack and score of the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, released in 2005. It has appeared on several compillation CDs since the film's release including on Volume 5 of the chill-out compilation Café del Mar, released in 1998. It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000. The soundtrack also found success in its dubbed versions. Number 4: Lagaan What did you say? A three hour musical about a cricket match? HELL YEAH! The L.A. Times spokes for us all when they said: Ashutosh Gowariker's glorious Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India is to the Bollywood musical epic what Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was to the period martial arts action adventure: an affectionate homage to a popular genre that raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme and a sophisticated style and point of view. Most crucially, its songs and dances are not mere interludes inserted in the action, bringing it to a halt--a Bollywood trademark-- but are fully integrated into the plot and marked by expressive, dynamic singing and dancing that infuse a historical drama with energy and immediacy. Number 3: Rang De Basanti Did you know that Nelly
Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
These are not my Lists... Its copied from that BLOG. For me.. No listing. Every work of ARR is a treasure On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Asmin asmin...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks -- *From:* Vithur vith...@gmail.com *To:* arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM *Subject:* [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukuthttp://blogs.livemint.com/members/Sidin-Vadukut.aspx - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last posthttp://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/lounge/archive/2009/02/23/what-is-ar-rahman-s-greatest-ever-film-soundtrack.aspx. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented *and *polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: *Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda* A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. *Number 9: Iruvar* Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) *Number 8: Alaipayuthe* Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. *Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam* Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. *Number 6: Delhi-6* For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam later. A wonderfully varied and nuanced track if you ask me. That and Dev D will take time to be replaced in our iPods. *Number 5: Bombay* No surprises here. A critical and popular success in every language. Wikipedia adds these bits of trivia: *The track Bombay Theme from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed, arranged and conducted by A. R. Rahman. It was recently featured in the soundtrack and score of the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, released in 2005. It has appeared on several compillation CDs since the film's release including on Volume 5 of the chill-out compilation Café del Mar, released in 1998. It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000. The soundtrack also found success in its dubbed versions. * *Number 4: Lagaan* What did you say? A three hour musical about a cricket match? HELL YEAH! The L.A. Times spokes for us allhttp://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-movie33006may10,0,6839824.storywhen they said: *Ashutosh Gowariker's glorious Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India is to the Bollywood musical epic what Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was to the period martial arts action adventure: an affectionate homage to a popular genre that raises it to the level of an art film with fully drawn characters, a serious underlying theme and a sophisticated style and point of view. Most crucially, its songs and dances are not mere
Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
It seems this list is taken only considering songs (except Bombay theme).. What about background score? If you include BGM also then my list would be.. 1.Bose The Forgotten Hero 2.Warriors Of Heaven And Earth 3.Swades 4.Lagaan 5.Bombay 6.Rang De Basanti 7.Kannathil Muthamittal 8.Roja 9.Dil Se 10.Boys --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, jibandevta jibande...@... wrote: Shocked to see 'Taal' missing!!! Remove Delhi 6 and put Taal.. -jiban --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Asmin asmindts@ wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks From: Vithur vithurm@ To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented and polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. Number 9: Iruvar Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) Number 8: Alaipayuthe Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. Number 6: Delhi-6 For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam later. A wonderfully varied and nuanced track if you ask me. That and Dev D will take time to be replaced in our iPods. Number 5: Bombay No surprises here. A critical and popular success in every language. Wikipedia adds these bits of trivia: The track Bombay Theme from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed, arranged and conducted by A. R. Rahman. It was recently featured in the soundtrack and score of the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, released in 2005. It has appeared on several compillation CDs since the film's release including on Volume 5 of the chill-out compilation Café del Mar, released in 1998. It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000. The soundtrack also found success in its dubbed versions. Number 4: Lagaan What did you say? A three hour musical about a cricket match? HELL YEAH! The L.A. Times spokes for us all when they said: Ashutosh Gowariker's glorious Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India is to the Bollywood musical epic what Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was to the period martial arts action adventure: an affectionate homage to
RE: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
It is very difficult to list 10 best album of ARR Sir. Quite impossible, as I think that many of them should be in the list, for example: Kandukonden Kandukonden, Uzhavan (especially for Kannilil ennai iramho, Pennalla Pennalla) Taal, Pukar, Rangeela, Taj Mahal (especially for Kuliruthu Kuliruthu) May Madam (especially for Minnale) Boys (especially for Ale Ale) Meenakshi, Jillundru Oru Kadhal (especially for Anbae Va, New York) Swades (especially for Yeh Jo Desh, Saawariya, Aahista) Indira (what a song thoda thoda malarntha enna), Sangamam (especially for Mazhaitulli, Margazhi tingal, Varaga Nathi karai oram, Mudhal Mudhal) Fire, Earth, Water, Kaadhalan (especially for Ennavalae adi) Guys, could not make a proper list, there are too many, I am sure I am missing a lot of others Jai Ho! My 2 years old son sings it many times a day. The funiest thing is that he wakes up singing it even before having his breakfast. Regards, Serge BELIER. To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com From: jibande...@yahoo.co.in Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:24:41 + Subject: Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Shocked to see 'Taal' missing!!! Remove Delhi 6 and put Taal.. -jiban --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Asmin asmin...@... wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks From: Vithur vith...@... To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented and polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. Number 9: Iruvar Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) Number 8: Alaipayuthe Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. Number 6: Delhi-6 For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam later. A wonderfully varied and nuanced track if you ask me. That and Dev D will take time to be replaced in our iPods. Number 5: Bombay No surprises here. A critical and popular success in every language. Wikipedia adds these bits of trivia: The track Bombay Theme from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed, arranged and conducted by A. R. Rahman. It was recently featured in the soundtrack
Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
Id include Taal and thiruda thiruda at top 5. Bergin www.berginroy.com Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: dhina_arr dhina_...@yahoo.co.in Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:29:05 To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks It seems this list is taken only considering songs (except Bombay theme).. What about background score? If you include BGM also then my list would be.. 1.Bose The Forgotten Hero 2.Warriors Of Heaven And Earth 3.Swades 4.Lagaan 5.Bombay 6.Rang De Basanti 7.Kannathil Muthamittal 8.Roja 9.Dil Se 10.Boys --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, jibandevta jibande...@... wrote: Shocked to see 'Taal' missing!!! Remove Delhi 6 and put Taal.. -jiban --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Asmin asmindts@ wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks From: Vithur vithurm@ To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented and polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. Number 9: Iruvar Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) Number 8: Alaipayuthe Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. Number 6: Delhi-6 For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam later. A wonderfully varied and nuanced track if you ask me. That and Dev D will take time to be replaced in our iPods. Number 5: Bombay No surprises here. A critical and popular success in every language. Wikipedia adds these bits of trivia: The track Bombay Theme from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed, arranged and conducted by A. R. Rahman. It was recently featured in the soundtrack and score of the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, released in 2005. It has appeared on several compillation CDs since the film's release including on Volume 5 of the chill-out compilation Café del Mar, released in 1998. It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000. The soundtrack also found success in its dubbed versions. Number 4: Lagaan What did you say? A three hour musical about
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Wow Sergie..ur list itself is giving goosebumps.. one reason for trying to find 10 best soundtracks is not to find the best ten, but in our efforts we will revisit a few tracks which we havent heard in a long time.. :) --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, serge belier s03g...@... wrote: It is very difficult to list 10 best album of ARR Sir. Quite impossible, as I think that many of them should be in the list, for example: Kandukonden Kandukonden, Uzhavan (especially for Kannilil ennai iramho, Pennalla Pennalla) Taal, Pukar, Rangeela, Taj Mahal (especially for Kuliruthu Kuliruthu) May Madam (especially for Minnale) Boys (especially for Ale Ale) Meenakshi, Jillundru Oru Kadhal (especially for Anbae Va, New York) Swades (especially for Yeh Jo Desh, Saawariya, Aahista) Indira (what a song thoda thoda malarntha enna), Sangamam (especially for Mazhaitulli, Margazhi tingal, Varaga Nathi karai oram, Mudhal Mudhal) Fire, Earth, Water, Kaadhalan (especially for Ennavalae adi) Guys, could not make a proper list, there are too many, I am sure I am missing a lot of others Jai Ho! My 2 years old son sings it many times a day. The funiest thing is that he wakes up singing it even before having his breakfast. Regards, Serge BELIER. To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com From: jibande...@... Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:24:41 + Subject: Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Shocked to see 'Taal' missing!!! Remove Delhi 6 and put Taal.. -jiban --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Asmin asmindts@ wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!!! Thanks From: Vithur vithurm@ To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented and polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. Number 9: Iruvar Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly veiled biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the movie not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young, sexy Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some. (Also Mohanlal! Yay!) Number 8: Alaipayuthe Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning to bore no? But whatay soundtrack this is. And the rare movie that matches Rahman's music with stunning visuals. One of my fave tracks from the album, Endendrum Punnagai, was originally not part of the album. (And if I remember right, was missing from the first batch of CDs and tapes.) But it was very popular and they brought it back into the official OST. Number 7: Pudhiya Mugam Collective high five everyone. I won't repeat everything I said before, but if you haven't had a chance to listen to music you really must. And try to ignore the damp squib Vishwavidaata remix. Number 6: Delhi-6 For a while I was worried about Delhi-6. After the first 100 votes or so, there wasn't even one vote for this recent masterpiece. Thankfully it picked up steam
Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
Heyyy Vithur...
Your selections are superb...But how can you avoid Taal from your list?? We all
know that selecting 10 of ARR sir is just like going to sun However deeply
analyze each and every song... itz to difficult but i dont think that
we can not avoid Taal and Kannathil Muthamittal.. Especially the BGM in
Kannathil muthamittalGoosebumping...Better not to try to find out the best
10 out of ARR's compositions... all are best...
And what about Munpe vaa frm JOK??? ARR himself told it as one of his
favourite...
SAJIN_MOHAN...
--- On Thu, 26/2/09, Nagaraj arr_naga...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Nagaraj arr_naga...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, 26 February, 2009, 7:04 AM
Wow Sergie..ur list itself is giving goosebumps..
one reason for trying to find 10 best soundtracks is not to find
the best ten, but in our efforts we will revisit a few tracks which
we havent heard in a long time.. :)
--- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, serge belier s03g...@...
wrote:
It is very difficult to list 10 best album of ARR Sir. Quite
impossible, as I think that many of them should be in the list, for
example:
Kandukonden Kandukonden,
Uzhavan (especially for Kannilil ennai iramho, Pennalla
Pennalla)
Taal,
Pukar,
Rangeela,
Taj Mahal (especially for Kuliruthu Kuliruthu)
May Madam (especially for Minnale)
Boys (especially for Ale Ale)
Meenakshi,
Jillundru Oru Kadhal (especially for Anbae Va, New York)
Swades (especially for Yeh Jo Desh, Saawariya, Aahista)
Indira (what a song thoda thoda malarntha enna),
Sangamam (especially for Mazhaitulli , Margazhi tingal, Varaga
Nathi karai oram, Mudhal Mudhal)
Fire,
Earth,
Water,
Kaadhalan (especially for Ennavalae adi)
Guys, could not make a proper list, there are too many, I am sure
I am missing a lot of others
Jai Ho! My 2 years old son sings it many times a day. The
funiest thing is that he wakes up singing it even before having his
breakfast.
Regards,
Serge BELIER.
To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com
From: jibande...@. ..
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:24:41 +
Subject: Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
Shocked to see 'Taal' missing! ! !
Remove Delhi 6 and put Taal..
-jiban
--- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, Asmin asmindts@ wrote:
Hi Vithur,
How about 'INDIAN', not in the list???
Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new.
You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!! !
Thanks
_ _ __
From: Vithur vithurm@
To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM
Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM
Don't take our word for it.
It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after
enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last
post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the
final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze
results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to
choose
from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya
Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you
add
films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added
plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films.
(Opinions
made in the comments section have not been taken into account.
Not
because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but
because
we could be double counting people who commented and polled.)
Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular
ARR
film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers:
Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda
A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well
at the
box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was
a
hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi.
Little
known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this
movie
goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal
Varma. He
went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to
bludgeon myself to death with a remote control.
Number 9: Iruvar
Again a ARR-MR project, Iruvar was a controversial lightly
veiled
biopic of Tamil politician, film star and god-on-earth MG
Ramachandran. No one will forget the Hello Mister song in the
movie
not just for the music itself but for the unveiling of a young,
sexy
Aishwarya Rai in her debut film. Cue goosebumps. And then some.
(Also
Mohanlal! Yay!)
Number 8: Alaipayuthe
Yes, this ARR-MR collaboration business is beginning
Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks
Henceforth, I think I need to put the Source of the news in the Top and then paste the news Item This is noy my Fav 10. This has been copied and pasted here ... On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM, sajin mohan sajin_...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Heyyy Vithur... Your selections are superb...But how can you avoid Taal from your list?? We all know that selecting 10 of ARR sir is just like going to sun However deeply analyze each and every song... itz to difficult but i dont think that we can not avoid Taal and Kannathil Muthamittal.. Especially the BGM in Kannathil muthamittalGoosebumping...Better not to try to find out the best 10 out of ARR's compositions... all are best... And what about Munpe vaa frm JOK??? ARR himself told it as one of his favourite... *...SAJIN_MOHAN...* --- On *Thu, 26/2/09, Nagaraj arr_naga...@yahoo.com* wrote: From: Nagaraj arr_naga...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, 26 February, 2009, 7:04 AM Wow Sergie..ur list itself is giving goosebumps.. one reason for trying to find 10 best soundtracks is not to find the best ten, but in our efforts we will revisit a few tracks which we havent heard in a long time.. :) --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com, serge belier s03g...@... wrote: It is very difficult to list 10 best album of ARR Sir. Quite impossible, as I think that many of them should be in the list, for example: Kandukonden Kandukonden, Uzhavan (especially for Kannilil ennai iramho, Pennalla Pennalla) Taal, Pukar, Rangeela, Taj Mahal (especially for Kuliruthu Kuliruthu) May Madam (especially for Minnale) Boys (especially for Ale Ale) Meenakshi, Jillundru Oru Kadhal (especially for Anbae Va, New York) Swades (especially for Yeh Jo Desh, Saawariya, Aahista) Indira (what a song thoda thoda malarntha enna), Sangamam (especially for Mazhaitulli , Margazhi tingal, Varaga Nathi karai oram, Mudhal Mudhal) Fire, Earth, Water, Kaadhalan (especially for Ennavalae adi) Guys, could not make a proper list, there are too many, I am sure I am missing a lot of others Jai Ho! My 2 years old son sings it many times a day. The funiest thing is that he wakes up singing it even before having his breakfast. Regards, Serge BELIER. To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com From: jibande...@. .. Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:24:41 + Subject: Re: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Shocked to see 'Taal' missing! ! ! Remove Delhi 6 and put Taal.. -jiban --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com, Asmin asmindts@ wrote: Hi Vithur, How about 'INDIAN', not in the list??? Better to remove Delhi 6 from this list, its still new. You are talking about 10 Greatest sountracks!! ! Thanks _ _ __ From: Vithur vithurm@ To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:44:45 PM Subject: [arr] The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks The top 10 greatest AR Rahman film soundtracks Sidin Vadukut - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:34 AM Don't take our word for it. It's what you, the readers of this blog, told us after enthusiastically participating in the poll mentioned in the last post. Many of you left comments and dozens of you polled. At the final count, we had exactly 200 votes when we decided to analyze results at around 10:30 AM this morning. We had asked you to choose from five films of our choosing (Rang De Basanti, Roja, Pudhiya Mugam, Delhi 6 and Lagaan) plus Slumdog Millionaire and let you add films of your own choosing. And you committed music fans added plenty: we had atleast one vote for a total of 25 films. (Opinions made in the comments section have not been taken into account. Not because we don't like your comments, we crave comments, but because we could be double counting people who commented and polled.) Here in reverse order of votes won are the top 10 most popular ARR film soundtracks according to PlayThings readers: Number 10: Thiruda Thiruda A ARR-Mani Ratnam project from 1993 that did not do too well at the box office but won plenty of fans for its music. Every track was a hit including Veerapandi Kottayile, Konjam Nilavu and Rasathi. Little known fact about Thiruda Thiruda: the writing credits for this movie goes to a then little known writer and film maker Ram Gopal Varma. He went on to later make Ram Gopal Varma ki Aag and make me want to bludgeon myself to death with a remote control. Number 9: Iruvar Again a ARR-MR project
