Mychael Danna messes with ARR's Water score

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Topic started by observer (@ 12.77.131.67) on Sat Dec 18 00:50:28 EST 2004.


http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041218/asp/calcutta/story_4133058.asp

"In fact, I heard the early mixes for Mr Rahman’s songs and I thought the electronic elements were inappropriate for this movie. I hope the final version will have an instrumental make-up more in keeping with the spirit of the film. The songs themselves are his (Rahman’s) usual wonderful work."

I find this very annoying indeed. So Rahman's own dream score is given a PC acoustic makeover. Aaaaargh!!

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When one is give a job to work on already completed job, to atleast do justice to the salary, he has to do some thing...its natural..so michael does some patch work..changes instruments and that's all. Or else..deepa mehta and her auditors will question why the hell this guy is paid..

But..adhukku ARR's best work by his own admission thaan kedaichchidhaa?!.oh God..

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Danna says that he "hopes" that the songs will have a different instrumental approach.

So, it is possible that the changes to the songs might be done by Rahman himself.

We will have to wait and see.

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Hi!
I dont think, we should be reading too much into this. for example, for Veer Zaara, Madan Mohan's tunes were used albeit a few changes done to keep it as per the current times. As long as the original melody is kept intact, I don't see huge damage done.
Thanks,
Jaiganesh

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Jaiganesh:

Are you serious? As far as I'm concerned every note, every single sound that ARR puts in his music is a direct expression of his intent, he is one of the few composers who applies the highest levels of control to his compositions. To have anyone tamper with it at all strikes me as being so brutal that I'm frankly surprised to see so little agreement with me here on this matter.

No offense, but how carefully are you listening to what ARR is doing in his songs over and above, not to mention under, his "tunes"? Madan Mohan is a different case since he's gone, and can't object to the oh-so-clever modernization of his tunes. Rahman is very much around and it's sure to cause him pain. Have you read his comment on Sarah Brightman's version of his Journey Home tune: "They made a khichdi of it."

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skumar:

"We will have to wait and see."

Indeed. Though I'm already making plans and buying hi-tech weaponry in order to assassinate either Deepa or Danna or both .

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Jaiganesh:

"No offense, but how carefully are you listening to what ARR is doing in his songs over and above, not to mention under, his "tunes"?"

If that sounded condescending, let me rephrase it to say don't you care about his arrangements too? I guess its just a measure of my irritation at this happening, and also because I'm atleast as interested in his sound as his tunes, which may not be how everyone listens to music.

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Hi !
Observer!
All I meant to convey was , if the original thought is kept intact, then it should be fine. It is true, that if ARR himself feels bad abt it, then it is indeed objectionable. All said and done, whatever Mychael Danna does is having the blessing of Deepa Mehta and right now she is the sole authority who can decide, whether it is OK or not. All we can do is speculate as we don't even have a clue.

Thanks,

Jaiganesh
http://silencerocks.blogspot.com

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observer!

what i got from interview was - Mychael Denna for BGM of Water.

the songs are composed and i believe recorded by A.R.Rahman already.
the BGM does have some hangover of the songs, and i believe that is where Mr. Denna is
mentioning regarding orchestration etc. and from the elite list of musicians listed. i have no doubt that it would be pretty good.

regards
saregamaremix

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saregamaremix:

I understand your interpretation. Certainly hope its the right one, though I'm not willing to relent even on the BGM .