Wooow, thanks.. Jus look at all the awards rewarded to Bombay.. 8-)Quote:
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Wooow, thanks.. Jus look at all the awards rewarded to Bombay.. 8-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scale
india cinemavin direction thurail sagaptham padaitha gurunadharukku pirandha naal vaazhthukal..
Many Many more happy returns of the Day (Maniratnam & IR) wishes to both
GURU will ROCK in the forthcoming venture!
Happy Birthday to Legend manirathnam.
IMHO In india Nobody can match the quality and technical competence of manirathnam .
we are expecting some soulful movies from you like "idhaiyathai thirudathey","mouna ragam","bombay".
HE always have extracted good muisc from his MD's whether it's ARR or IR :wink: :wink: very good music sense
Bhatt plucks the right note
Ritujay Ghosh | HT City
Kolkata, June 12, 2006
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt has come a long way, from creating a musical instrument called the Mohan Veena, playing with George Harrison and composing music in the Oscar-winning film Dead Man Walking to winning a Grammy for the world music album, A Meeting by the River. The maestro is still going strong.
Bhatt is all set to fly off to London this week to meet Eric Clapton about an album he is doing with the guitarist and vocalist. “We will be finalising things during this meeting before we start composing the tracks,” says Bhatt, who was in Kolkata on Sunday for a music concert.
The maestro is elated about working with Clapton, whom he has known for the last few years. “I have played with a number of western musicians but an album with Clapton is certainly a big thing,” says Bhatt, whose music moved Clapton so much during a 2004 concert in memory of George Harrison at the Royal Albert Hall, London, that the guitarist, the organiser of the show, approached him for
a concert.
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is doing an album with guitarist and vocalist Eric Clapton.
“This is how our friendship grew. We performed together at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas when we finally decided to come out with an album,” says Bhatt.
The project, says the maestro, will be on world music and both he and Clapton will be on vocals and also play their instruments — the Mohan Veena and the guitar.
“We will compose the tracks together and that won’t take long, may be a day or two,” says a confident Bhatt, who earlier composed A Meeting by the River in just one night.
The musician confesses that he hadn’t heard too much of Clapton till he met him. “Tears in heaven, which Clapton sang after the death of his son, is my favourite. This time we will stress a lot on improvisation. Indian classical musicians always have a tendency towards improvisation in their albums and I will follow the same route,” he says.
Bhatt laments the present state of Indian classical music. “It’s not that there is a dearth of good listeners. However, what we lack is proper presentation. Commercial houses like Sahara and the Ambanis, who are investing so much to promote sports and other things should also look at us and help us promote cultural music in India,” he says.
At present, Bhatt is busy with a fusion album with German guitarist Matthais Mueller, which will see him on the Mohan Veena blending Rajasthani folk with western music. The recording will be done at the end of August. “I am keeping my fingers crossed and hope it will work out well,” he says.
“I have also recorded for a Hindi-Tamil bilingual film for director Mani Ratnam, along with music director AR Rahman,” says Bhatt.
source : http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/1...1100050001.htm
GURU - Bilingual film?????
Maybe, what he mean's was the film getting dubbed in tamil :huh:
the good thing is about the songs YEAH!!!!
Suhasini’s homework for Guru in England July 18, 2006
Manirathnam watchers know that Suhasini Manirathnam is also a part of his latest venture Guru, the Abishek Bacchhan—Aishwarya Rai starrer. “Yes, I have done the first twenty scenes of the movie. Mani sir gave me a blank cheque and a piece of white paper and sent me off to England where he spent most of his youth. I am from a village and the place was new to me. But then, I had a lot of time to get some real creativity done. I knew that this was a paid holiday,” say Suhasini.
vintage Mumbai in Chennai for Manirathnam’s Guru!!
Have you ever imagined what Mumbai would have looked like in the 1950's?
Trams on the road, buildings, people and the very atmosphere exuding a sense of the old world charm… That is precisely what ace director Manirathnam has brought alive in his forthcoming film, Guru. The Mumbai of the 1950s.
With Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Maddy and Vidya Balan in the lead roles, sources reveal that the film traces the life of the Ambanis.
A majority of the shoot is complete, with only two weeks' worth of shooting left.
Known for his meticulous precision for detail, Manirathnam was intent on painting a picture of Mumbai before the 1960s. And when an image of a certain vision sits with explicit clarity in the mind of a director like Mani, there is no room whatsoever for compromise.
Huge sets at the YMCA grounds in Chennai have been erected expressly for this purpose, with art director Samir Chandar calling the shots. The sets are massive, to say the least, and the vista presented, lifelike.
Old world roads have been laid out, trams have been built, and even the costumes are a replica of the times gone by. The sets and the setting look so authentic, that a lucky few who caught a glimpse of the sets, are spellbound by its sense of realism. In fact, most people are not aware of the existence of such a setting, including a majority of the unit of the film.
Manirathnam has taken time out to explain the magnitude of the location only to Abhishek, who trade experts believe is lucky to have landed with such an exquisite and unique character.
We are told that Abhishek's character starts in the year 1959, when he is 20 years old, and the film traces his life till he is 65. The older Abhishek Bachchan in the film has been characterized as a rotund personality, for which a special make-up that takes close to four hours to complete has been used in the film. Industry experts say that Guru will certainly be a milestone character for Abhishek Bachchan, and his value in the industry will only shoot upwards.
However, when Mani wanted to shoot a few scenes and a song sequence in Mumbai, Abhishek was forced to decline in fear of the media glare. With scores of rumours doing the rounds about his supposed affair with Aishwarya Rai, he is afraid that a song shot in Mumbai with Abhishek romancing Ash will only add fuel to the rumour mills that are working overtime already. Abhishek has declined a shoot in Mumbai earlier as well, for the film Dhoom 2, and requested the producer to look for an alternate location with the unit ending up in Brazil finally.
Respecting the actor's wishes, Manirathnam too is looking for other locations for the song, while completing most of his film shooting in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-mov...6-06-guru.html
" Guru " comes with great expectations this year with The legends AR Rehman and Manirathnam working on this project. Abishek , Madhavan and Beauty queen Aishwaraya play the lead roles in Guru . The news is that the movie spans around four decades from 50's to 80's. This information is also confirmed in an interview with tamil daily by Rajiv Menon. The movie shooting is going on a brisk pace in Chennai and Karnataka. AR Rehman has already composed 3 songs for the movie and one of them is sung by Himesh reshmai. the big question is ,Will Guru have dubbed version released in south Indian languages………….Hope Guru leads its way…………
http://www.tamilpakkam.com/html/cini...hereisguru.htm