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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
Golden era for Indian music?
I look back at the last 6 to 8 months.. something has changed! Yes..I now work in an office and instead of "studying" in a college..i live at home instead of a shabby old hostel room..but all thats fine.
Well what is that change then? Its the fact that there has been a sudden surge of top quality music in Indian cinema...its literally "raining" good music. I now spend more time listening to music than I ever did..(what with the bombay travelling to work in the train and traffic) and even then music related conversations with friends make me realise there are a good number of good songs that i still have not heard and vice versa. Compare this with a year ago when I tried hard to look for songs that were worth listening to. Each Rahman album was eagerly awaited. (well i guess that still hasn't change and never will).
Just to prove my point I'll list a few songs/albums which have led me to believe that we very well may be witnessing the "golden era" of Indian cinema music.
1. Jaane tu ya jaane na - title song of the movie..India's first original jazz song..sung by Rahman himself
2. Kahin toh - same movie..its a personal favourite (its made for the piano)
3. Kabhi kabhi aditi - this one is obv the most popular..its amazing to have someone's name in almost each line of the song (tu khush hai toh lage ki jahaan mein chaayi hai khushi!..wow!)
4. All the other songs of this one too..nazrein milana, pappu cant dance..gr8 stuff.
5. Rock on, sindbad the sailor, socha hai!..hats off to Shankar ehsaan loy and farhaan akhtar.. bulls eye!
6. Phir dekhiye and yeh tumhaari meri baatein..both from Rock on!- multiple hearing..awesome lyrics.. khush hai wahi jo thoda betaab hai!
7. Kuch khaas hai, mar jaawan..and the backgrnd music of Fashion
8. Slumdog millionaire...wow!! Oh saaya, Jai ho, Mausam and escape, dreams on fire, paper planes
9. delhi 6.........Rehna tu!!!!! i dont understand the genre of this song..seems arabic+jazz+blues god knows wat...agen sung by rahman himself
10. and obv the other songs of delhi 6.. masakalli, title song, genda phool(with its sudden beat change after "saiyaan hai vyapaari") , arziyaan....tujhe kya gham tera rishta gagan ki baasuri se hai, pavan ki guftagu se hai sooraj ki roshni se hai :D
11. And something class apart.. the album of Dev D...its mind blowing..to be very honest no single song of the movie in my opinion is extraordinary..but wen you put it all together and in the context of the movie...wat emerges is something completely different..imaginative..including such a wide gamut of genres that will appeal rickshaw walas upto music connoisseurs!
12. There is the standard good music of yash chopra type movies...even that got better.. with rab ne bana di jodi..chance pe dance..it shows that even dance songs can be musically appealing..and musically appealing songs can be danced to!
13. rahman and ghajini too...kaise mujhe tum mil gayi...its a classic
14. Luck by chance...sapno se bhare naina! shankar mahadevan proves his classical backgrnd with very well scripted digital music.
Im sure I have missed a couple...yeah..kismat connection for example..bakhuda (finally atif aslam has come up with something good)..even bachna aie haseeno..ahista ahista and khuda jaane. And funny numbers like cool cool from roadside romeo..charlie ka laila and laila ka charlie :D
Now who has had the largest role to play in this transformation??
For this we have to thank someone...who does not feature in the list above..the guy who is almost single handedly responsible for this era....Himesh Reshamiya..
God bless him to say that he'll only give music and sing in movies he acts in :)
and well also composing so much of nonsense that everything seems so refreshing now!!
Well im not totally against his music..and wud like to have two songs in a year or somethin by him...well who else can come up with hilarious stuff like "tandoori nights!" but 40 songs in a year by that nut...please no!!
Anyway..Rahman,shankar ehsaan loy, salim sulaiman..and now amit trivedi (dev D)..you guys have a lot to live up to..hope this is just the beginning of the "golden era".
Well what is that change then? Its the fact that there has been a sudden surge of top quality music in Indian cinema...its literally "raining" good music. I now spend more time listening to music than I ever did..(what with the bombay travelling to work in the train and traffic) and even then music related conversations with friends make me realise there are a good number of good songs that i still have not heard and vice versa. Compare this with a year ago when I tried hard to look for songs that were worth listening to. Each Rahman album was eagerly awaited. (well i guess that still hasn't change and never will).
Just to prove my point I'll list a few songs/albums which have led me to believe that we very well may be witnessing the "golden era" of Indian cinema music.
1. Jaane tu ya jaane na - title song of the movie..India's first original jazz song..sung by Rahman himself
2. Kahin toh - same movie..its a personal favourite (its made for the piano)
3. Kabhi kabhi aditi - this one is obv the most popular..its amazing to have someone's name in almost each line of the song (tu khush hai toh lage ki jahaan mein chaayi hai khushi!..wow!)
4. All the other songs of this one too..nazrein milana, pappu cant dance..gr8 stuff.
5. Rock on, sindbad the sailor, socha hai!..hats off to Shankar ehsaan loy and farhaan akhtar.. bulls eye!
6. Phir dekhiye and yeh tumhaari meri baatein..both from Rock on!- multiple hearing..awesome lyrics.. khush hai wahi jo thoda betaab hai!
7. Kuch khaas hai, mar jaawan..and the backgrnd music of Fashion
8. Slumdog millionaire...wow!! Oh saaya, Jai ho, Mausam and escape, dreams on fire, paper planes
9. delhi 6.........Rehna tu!!!!! i dont understand the genre of this song..seems arabic+jazz+blues god knows wat...agen sung by rahman himself
10. and obv the other songs of delhi 6.. masakalli, title song, genda phool(with its sudden beat change after "saiyaan hai vyapaari") , arziyaan....tujhe kya gham tera rishta gagan ki baasuri se hai, pavan ki guftagu se hai sooraj ki roshni se hai :D
11. And something class apart.. the album of Dev D...its mind blowing..to be very honest no single song of the movie in my opinion is extraordinary..but wen you put it all together and in the context of the movie...wat emerges is something completely different..imaginative..including such a wide gamut of genres that will appeal rickshaw walas upto music connoisseurs!
12. There is the standard good music of yash chopra type movies...even that got better.. with rab ne bana di jodi..chance pe dance..it shows that even dance songs can be musically appealing..and musically appealing songs can be danced to!
13. rahman and ghajini too...kaise mujhe tum mil gayi...its a classic
14. Luck by chance...sapno se bhare naina! shankar mahadevan proves his classical backgrnd with very well scripted digital music.
Im sure I have missed a couple...yeah..kismat connection for example..bakhuda (finally atif aslam has come up with something good)..even bachna aie haseeno..ahista ahista and khuda jaane. And funny numbers like cool cool from roadside romeo..charlie ka laila and laila ka charlie :D
Now who has had the largest role to play in this transformation??
For this we have to thank someone...who does not feature in the list above..the guy who is almost single handedly responsible for this era....Himesh Reshamiya..
God bless him to say that he'll only give music and sing in movies he acts in :)
and well also composing so much of nonsense that everything seems so refreshing now!!
Well im not totally against his music..and wud like to have two songs in a year or somethin by him...well who else can come up with hilarious stuff like "tandoori nights!" but 40 songs in a year by that nut...please no!!
Anyway..Rahman,shankar ehsaan loy, salim sulaiman..and now amit trivedi (dev D)..you guys have a lot to live up to..hope this is just the beginning of the "golden era".
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