Recommend new ideas and projects for IR

[ananth222]

Just like every Indian cricket fan has batting advice for Sachin Tendulkar, I think we also have plenty to say about what IR ought to be doing. So let us post and discuss all your ideas on this thread. May some of it might one day reach IR and he might decide to do something... or maybe not, but at least we can get it off our chest!

Let me start with one:
I recently stumbled on this album called "Rafi Resurrected":
http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/movie/HC000152.html (Vol. 1)
http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/...p?mid=HC000153 (Vol. 2)

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra released this album, a collection of old Rafi songs orchestrated and performed by the CBSO, with Sonu Nigam providing the vocals. Apparently they even toured and performed these numbers live. The effect is pretty good, especially "Kya hua tera vada", "Tareef karoon kya uski" etc. Vol. 2 also has some instrumental versions.

One of my gripes about old IR songs has been the poor quality of playing and recording. How would it be if IR decided to do something like this, selecting some of his evergreens, re-orchestrating them (to the scale of TiS) and recording with a competent orchestra? I believe that IR can achieve astounding results in this format. Please share your thoughts.

There are also some videos (but poor quality):