"I am not jealous but...."
Just when you thought that the Bollywood industry managed to nurture a music director who was not in too much over his head and was level-headed without being prone to whining, you get a slap in the face. You get put in your place with the firm reminder that the murkiness of the current Bollywood scenery, its only people like Anu Malik, Ismail Darbar, Nadeem Shravan, Jatin-Lalit, and their whining ilk that rule the roost.
Ismail Darbar, of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas fame, recently whined to a Rediff tabloid writer about how, even though his music was uber-super and better than AR Rahman's compositions.
"But my work has always been better than his. Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam was better than Taal. Even Devdas was better than Saathiya.This diatribe is not because he whined that his music is better than Rahman's (Maybe the individual brilliance of a couple songs are better than Rahman's, but for sheer variety and impact, Darbar cannot hold a candle to Rahman, and with this whine of his, he probably never will, in my books atleast.
But it is destiny that he got international fame. Angrezo ne uska haath pakad liya hai toh logo ko lagta hai ke yeh kuch zyada hi hai (Foreigners encouraged him so people think he is very good).I am not saying this because of jealousy. This is the bitter truth."
What probably irritates the living daylights out of me, and completely turned me off is the accusation that we are a nation of dull-heads who cannot decide for themselves whose music we love. Apparently we love Rahman just cuz Andrew Lloyd Webber introduced Rahman to London's West End and to Broadway. Apparently his self-serving memory forgets the fact that Rahman has been in the industry far longer than he has been, long before Sir Webber even heard his songs.
And contrast this with the whine in the Tamil industry from Karthik Raja and Vidyasagar, back in 1997, about how their music was superior to the "sound engineer" compositions. Last I checked, Karthik Raja has been eclipsed by his more talented and more humble brother, and Vidyasagar is on a roller coaster that seems to be headed finally for a big-time high in 2005. I wonder, what did Rahman do to the people in the industry that they are all out, with knives sharpened on a brimstone, to pull him down and tear him to pieces
2 comments:
I read this one too. Well, what can I say.
Thingalai Nay kuraindhatru.
By barking at the sun, the dog while sating its appetite, isnt really doing much. The Sun is the sun and the dog is the dog.
About as succintly put as is possible...bravo.
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