Comments on: Rahman – On Mani and much more

By: govind vijayan

govind vijayan — Sat, 13 May 2006 15:41:51 +0000

hi frnds,
nice to hear frm rahman directly.but frm my point he’s a bit embarrased of his failures with mangal pandey,bf, god father where as new composers especially hj with vet vil at full flow.
dint u notice it ?????

By: Ashanti OMkar

Ashanti OMkar — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:09:02 +0000

True comments indeed. Lovely blogsite you have Guru! Keep up the great work!

Yes, the Finnish group is Värttinä – the transcriber got it wrong. Their website is:

http://www.varttina.com/

and they can be seen performing at WOMAD (http://www.womad.org) in a few worldwide locations this year.

Blessings & Best wishes
Ashanti OMkar
http://www.OMkari.net
http://www.aworan.net

By: BNB

BNB — Wed, 10 May 2006 10:31:52 +0000

Sureshkumar:
ARR said in the AajTak interview last week , he was working currently on Mani Ratnam’s Guru – that was the first thing he mentioned and then Shivaji. Guru seems to be rolling definitely.

Prabhu Chawla was kind of trying to get ARR to talk in Hindi during the Aaj Tak interview – he politely declined saying that it was not perfect yet. Wish, Mani Ratnam would think likewise

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Tue, 09 May 2006 22:36:32 +0000

Any interview by A.R Rahman is worth reading – just like his songs – though he evades many questions, most of the times. I would love to read his opinions on Joshua Sridhar’s music [i remember his opinion on YSR was so damn accurate, when YSR started] – but already know he won’t give [will simply say they are all good - some such - like he did about Harris Jayraj ]. Thanks for the pointer.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Tue, 09 May 2006 20:36:45 +0000

Guru,

AR’s interview was truly memorable…
offtopic, check this latest interview from PC!

His next will be the Mani – Aamir – AR film which will start in Oct.. and that the script is a stunner!

Hmm… 2 Scripts ready and filmed in such a short span and for Mani, should have been the first time! Should be interesting!

By: AjayR

AjayR — Tue, 09 May 2006 20:07:34 +0000

Wow.. that was a quick post LG

By: S.K.Ramachandran

S.K.Ramachandran — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:00:12 +0000

That was a nice interview. The interviewer Rajeev Masand is doing a superb program called ‘Now Showing’ in CNN-IBN which analyses Bollywood movies. This guy surely has the stuff.

By: Sureshkumar

Sureshkumar — Tue, 09 May 2006 14:27:19 +0000

Hi,
I saw the interview. ARR looked embarrased when asked about his payment for Mangal Pandey. And yes the interviewer asked very interesting questions to ARR. Yet i was disappoited as he didn’t ask what are ARR’s current projects. Though it is a cliched one, i always expect this to be asked in every ARR’s interview coz that will confirm many rumours. I always want to hear the news directly from him.

By: Qalandar

Qalandar — Tue, 09 May 2006 10:48:44 +0000

Great blog (I’ve been tracking the posts on Ratnam here). On my bookmark list it goes!

Speaking of Ratnam (yes, THAT film again):

http://qalandari.blogspot.com/2006/05/public-man-from-iru-no-less-but-no.html

By: bharat

bharat — Tue, 09 May 2006 07:58:00 +0000

Thanks for the link.

Who’s Bartana?

I am of the opinion that Rahman definitely knew that
it was Varttina he was working with.