I have quoted this and MENTIONED this everywhere in the past. Maybe, hez NOT the BEST composer in the world, since there are names like Ennio Morricone, John Williams etc. But AR RAHMAN is the MOST VERSATILE COMPOSER EVER, that our PLANET has witnessed!!! No ONE has EXTRA-ORDINARY proficiency over ALL GENRES like ARR!! The TALENT of ARR is that, if he listens to a song in a NEW GENRE, then, ARR immediatly picks up the GENRE, and creates THE BEST TRACK ever in the GENRE.
Once such example is when ARR started noticing the HIPHOP revolution in the west. "ORU KOODAI sunlight" (SIVAJI) was the first pure HIPHOP (TRIPHOP) track created by ARR!! But BEFORE and AFTER ORU KOODAI sunlight there has not been a SINGLE track in the genre by ANY hiphop artist in the world which matches atleast 40% CLASS of ORU KOODAI(STYLE). Similar is the case in the early 1990's, when ARR felt disturbed that all INDIAN listeners are behind MJ's MUSIC ignoring our film music. ARR absorbed the genre, and CREATED a WONDER in the same genre, so GRAND that even MJ has never made it so GRAND in his career. The track is NONE other than CHANDRALEKHA (THIRUDA THIRUDA, 1993). Then JAZZ in IRUVAR... Do we need any other PROOF that ARR is the MOST versatile composer, EVER existed in the planet??
