DISCLAIMER: Please do not interpret any of my comments below as being anti ARR. I worhship the Boss and his music!
Happy for ARR and for us fans that he won the filmfare for both music and BGM for Guru! There are no doubts that ARR's achievements are award worthy! However, I want to separate myself from the fan part of myself and think about the relationship between ARR and filmfare. ARR has won many filmfare awards, in fact the most out of anyone! No doubt, most of these awards are deserving. Let's face it, his music is THE BEST period overall. However, when it comes to the most recent Hindi soundtracks, Guru and RDB, I'm not quite certain that they deserve to be winners, from a purely musical and impactful standpoint. 2006 - RDB won - not only in filmfare, but in other award ceremonies. Yes, RDB was a huge hit for movie and music. Was RDB the best music of 2006? Not in my opinion. Omkara was the best. Even ARR himself admitted that Omkara was his favorite. I think Omkara won with the critics. 2007 - Guru won. Guru had some mindblowing songs, some of ARR's best work, but it also had relatively mediocre numbers like Baazi Laga and Ek Lo. IMO, the best soundtrack of 2007 was Taare Zameen Par with Guru a very close second. Did Guru have the best BGM? Granted, it was brilliant, but IMO, Eklavya had a better BGM score. The question has to come up: Is filmfare biased towards Rahman? Maybe. Does the filmfare award for best music really represent the best album? Not always. It's the case with a lot of awards. Many people have issues with filmfare in both directions. Yes, I love it that ARR won two years in a row. As a fan, I couldn't be more happy to see him recognized. Guru deserves to be recognized as an outstanding soundtrack and the public response to it has been superb. Albums are supposed to be awarded by votes, so I guess, Guru won because the public demanded it. I'm thrilled. But, I'm not exactly convinced that this was purely a gentry-elective process.
