Originally Posted by Music4Ever
Maddy said: swades will easily walk into top5 album list of any ARR fan
I checked the Top 10 ARR thread and Swades did not figure in the top ten (leave alone top five) of Littlemaster1982, A.Anand, K_vanan, and Scale. If I am not incorrect, these are some of the hard-core Rahman fans. Perhaps they forgot Swades, which somewhat lessens the album's allure, for "best" albums do not fade away from memory of even ordinary fans (leave alone hard-core ones).
For me, although Swades was a good album it did not have the freshness of Lagaan. Yuhin Chala, had it come in Lagaan would have been better received, IMO. It seems AG did not want it in Lagaan and ARR replaced it with that terrific Chale Chalo song. What a number, that! Fantastic beats in the class of the Mustafa number. Again, IMO. Also, (pardon me for this!) for me Yeh hai des mera reminded an old MSV-TKR number (vandha naal mudhal indha naal varai vaanam maaravillai), which to me indicated lack of freshness re Swades. Furthermore, as we all know Dekho na was just a polished version of Baba Kichu tha, but it did not have the "twinkling" vibrancy of Baba Kichu tha, IMO. Yeh tara was a good number but (again apologies, since you seem to be a Shahrukh fan) the film's protagonist, with his predictable acting, spoiled it somewhat, IMO. Above all, Swades was so hyped that when the album came out, it couldn't match the hype.