Maddy, I am not not saying that praising IR is an intelligent thing to do. I am just saying its not intelligent to criticize IR for the fact that his works are not accepted in the North. No mortal man can compose music that appeals to all people. This talk of global appeal is all bunkum. This is a very poor parameter to judge someone's ability. As I said earlier in my post, works of classical composers like Bach, Tchaikovsky.. have very little appeal beyond a small group of people who actually follow classical music.
For that matter the works of composers like RD,SD Burman, Naushad never really appealed to the Tamil masses the way they appealed to people from most other states. So are they any inferior for this?
If global appeal is a scale you use to judge musical ability then you would be forced to accept pathetic musically challenged people/groups like Britney Spears/Beatles as the greatest composers/groups. Not only that, by this logic Britney Spears is a greater musical figure( Pun unintended :-) ) than Bach because Bach loses in this aspect.
