On 12/27/2008 5:24 PM India Time, _Matthew Islam_ wrote: > Dear Vivek, > My intentions were never to advertise my inconsequential meets with AR > bhai.
Meeting someone whom we are a fan of is a great experience, is fun, is a memory that gets etched in our mind and stays with us for life. There is nothing wrong at all if someone tells about his meeting with ARR. If someone finds that it is some kind of show-off, let it be. I think only a person who is frustrated in not being able to meet ARR till now would say so, and would feel hurt or unprivileged when someone else tells about his meeting with ARR. I hope that Vivek also gets a chance to meet ARR and to talk with him. Then, Vivek will rise to the roof of the tallest building in his city and shout to everybody about his meeting with ARR. And that is perfectly OK with me. :-) So, dear Matthew and others who have met ARR, do tell us more about your meetings with him. -- Rawat > Most in the forum already knows of whatever little time I have > spent with him. He is like a brother to me, first and foremost, his > being an MD or a legend is now secondary to me. The point I was trying > to make needed more telling perhaps. See, I had at many instances told > AR bhai about the success of various movies and scripts and he would > sometime agree and sometimes he wouldn't. One such instance occurred > with Dhoom 2. I told him that it would bomb because of a weak script and > he insisted that it wouldn't because of marketing and cast no matter how > bad the script was. He has told me that these were the scales of movie > making needed to be attempted so that the bollywood grows in size. He > has an acute sense of what worked and what didn't. That was what I was > trying to say. I worded it wrongly I think. But if you look closely at > his films in the past three or four years, you will see, he has chosen > scripts that were both challenging and different to what both Tamil and > hindi films are known to forward. His tenacity in accepting a swades, > RDB, JA, Guru... and many others of its like instead of many other big > films that he was offered is testament that he wants to achieve. He has > always stated that his musical contrubutions are wasted if a film fails > and he would like to do films which succeed or for that matter have at > the least an impact on the viewers minds. Ar Bhai is a team player. And > no matter how much you or anyone says that he's shoddy at choosing > scripts, my first hand experience is that atleast in the last half a > decade he has tried to only do movies/scripts that he knows will have an > impact or that is entertaining. Some movies have faltered because of the > maker but the scripts had what you call "dum". Execution was bad > perhaps, marketing also. > > You know when someone makes choices that gets him so much recognition > for his work both abroad and in India.........you would think its a > given that he knows something about what he is doing. You would think > that since 95% of his work are films and he is known for them that its a > given that he knows whats a good film and whats not. If not is it just > luck then? There are many composers out there.....why not the same > consistency in their work? > Tell me, do 90% of all the worlds critics know nothing about good > scripts? And even if they didn't.......do western audiences not have the > thinking capacity that a mere viewer in India, Bangladesh or Pakistan > have? Its not a question of superiority, its a question of whether a > huge number of people are connecting to the product in question which is > entertaining them...............worldwide.........the answer to the > question is an emphatic "yes"! So how do you measure whats a good film > or bad? How can you tell me that a film's script success or failure lies > in something else and not the applause of the audience and the > appreciation of the crowd who watches it? We can then get into a debate > about GOOD SCRIPTS thats not crowd pleasers and Bad scripts that are and > how that is measured but this is niether the time nor the place to do so > and compared to the shit hollywood produces day in and day out, SDM > ranks above them for many reasons......the storytelling is innovative, > to me, personally that is. No one said its an earth shattering story of > new epic proportions. Everyone is saying its a well made film with a > simple story. > > Another two cents from me! > > Take Care. > > Matthew ------------------------------------ Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? <b> Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [email protected] To Subscribe: [email protected] To Unsubscribe: [email protected]! 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