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37 seconds is all you need for fame... yeah. :) Well... watch Hari Om if you can.
While there are narcissistic monkeys in Bollywood who run photocopy-machines for films as production houses, there's a great revolution going on here in terms of media and films... the number of western/indian-indie filmmakers I have met in last one here in Bombay itself surpasses the number I met when I was living in Bay Area. Rahman is one of those guys who is going to win out this anyway... he's been doing great composition for last 10 years or so now.
And of course, now Shantaram is going to be shot in Mumbai... cool J. Depp. stuff. So, future is bright and the Bollywood dirt is going to get cleaned up pretty soon, I feel.
Cheers, de Soum
On 24-Feb-06, at 5:11 PM, Deirdre Straughan wrote:
On 2/24/06, Soumyadeep Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well... since you mention A.R.Rahman, I thought perhaps the (only?) Indian here should pitch in his two cents. ... Obviously, things are not as they should be. We all know that... and I believe that at the very heart, this ongoing media revolution is nothing but letting the market decide what's right and wrong instead of corporate players. So, whatever your policy is Dierdre, I don't think there is a black-or-white explanation.
No, there never is.
In a way, I was hoping that those 37 seconds would give AR Rahman a bit of exposure to audiences who probably don't know him. From the opening bars of Lagaan, I thought "This composer is amazing! He should be working in Hollywood!" Andrew Lloyd Weber and a few others agreed, and I'm very much looking forward to hearing his work (co-composer) on the new "Lord of the Rings" musical. The snippet they used to have on the website was amazing.
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best regards,
Deirdré Straughan
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