On 3/27/2009 4:39 PM India Time, _Jahanzeb Farooq_ wrote: > has anyone tried this album Gulaal? it has music and lyrics by Piyush > Mishra. it is a nothing short of a masterpiece. it is dark, lyrically soooo > rich (forget Gulzar), it is simply stunning. i strongly recommend it to all > rahmaniacs. it is quite rahmanish also in a way. i hope ARR comes up with > this type of really dark and serious stuff. > > > - > Jahanzeb
Thanks for leading me to it. Someone had previously pointed to ranaji song of the film so I heard only that and that was indeed an amusing political caricature never heard till now in Indian screen. I didn't hear rest of the songs then, but your recommendation made me listen to them and I was instantaneously captivated by its firebrand music, and I felt prompted to hire the DVD and see it. And I was in a treat of a reasonably lovely film for a change. Bringing this thread back to ARR, Anurag Kashyap had written dialogues for Yuva and Water and had written (adopted) the script of Nayak. Now, coming to the music. This is one genre that is missing in ARR's work so far. I just loved the firebrand, motivating lyrics and music that almost runs through the entire film as its basic theme. The nearest ARR had ever come to such kind of music could be in Lagaan's chale chalo. And in spite of that being a different sort of, and lovely song - this exact emotion didn't come up any near in Chale chalo that are flooding Gulal's several songs. ARR is basically of the soft nature, he might not be comfortable to display furious emotions in the true earnest and he might be softening them - it can be called making subtle, still, it dilutes them in a negative sense. Another album of ARR having possibility of this kind of music was Mangal Pandey, but that was a confused film and music didn't show its full impact in that film in any case. And yet another ARR album of ARR where such music could have been was Bhagat Singh, but I have no complains about that because Bhagat Singh was a clear concept depicting the life of the martyr and the times of indian independence struggle, which it did beautifully. They never intended to "boil the blood" of the viewers, and it is OK because the film was sincerely made. ARR's music also followed that line. Aarambh song of Gulaal would have done ARR proud had that been in any of the above films. Shaher song is also that sort of but more expressive, that is descriptive of the current scenario while Aarambh is more visionary, prophecying sort of. Shaher revokes glimpses of Swades' Yu hi chala chal though the entire flow of both the songs are quite different. Duniya is also having a unique pathos, sadness, craving - without being melodramatic. And Duniya genre of music would have a place in 1947 Earth. Those who have not yet heard Gulaal can still notice that it sounds a "poor people's" music - he he he - I mean, low budget. Not many instruments, not many effects, not many intervening, multi-track tunes. More effects have beed brought just be inflections of vocals. It is rustic, it is earthly - and that is the beauty of it. ARR's music is having a richness and thoroughness and perfection. I wish ARR to explore Gulaal genre of music. ARR should work with Anurag Kashyap as director. -- V
