Sillunnu Oru Kadhal - A.R.Rahman - Vaali - Surya

Directors who could extract good music like Bharatiraja, KB, Vasanth, Rajeev Menon, Kathir have become extinct species in kollywood. Mani has moved to Bollywood and Shankar makes one film in 2 years. And then there are the gangs of kollywood like IR-Bala, ysr-selva and gowtham-HJ, bharadwaj-charan which means ARR will invariably be doing a KSR or SJS movie or for some newcomer. I think the time is right for him to quit TFM and concentrate only in hfm where he enjoys better camaraderie with directors.

The directors that ARR has given good music to in Tamil are either not making films now (KB, Rajeev Menon etc.) or are only making occasional films (MR, Shankar). In Bollywood he has a good rapport with filmmakers like Shyam Benegal, Ashutosh Gowariker, and hopefully now Rakesh Omprakash Mehra. He'll also probably have the occasional Subhash Ghai or Raj Kumar Santoshi film. Not to mention Aamir Khan's support. RGV's films are not musically oriented anymore.

I want to think this is cyclical, but is there a place for ARR in an industry of Cheran, Linguswamy, Vishnuvardhan, Saran, Murugadoss, etc.? Maybe Cheran-ARR could be similar to Bharatiraja-ARR. And I hope that Bhagyaraj's Sakarakatti actually gets made with ARR.

I don't want him to quit TFM, since I'd miss his presence. But I wonder if ARR isn't pricing himself out of reach of many Tamil filmmakers? If SOK turns out to be a hit, maybe his reputation in TFM will be renewed. But how long can he do the same old love stories and hero films that Kodambakkam churns out? Where are the good directors?

I have not seen a Tamil film since Anniyan or a Hindi film since RDB, though there are a few like Omkara I'd like to see. Frankly, if it wasn't for ARR I probably wouldn't follow Indian cinema at all.

Srilankan tamils have also loved ARR music !

Hey ya, I am also a Sri Lankan and all of my sri lankan friends love Rahman. Boys was such a hit back in Sri Lanka, I am in Canada tho.

sanchay and thineshan54321
welcome.. am also from SL.... SOK is rocking over here..

i went to Music World yesterday, they said that after a while a tamil album is selling so well... they were thrilled

ARR ROCKZ

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Hindi is at 3 and Tamil at 17. Why? Because Tamils are easily changing their language and culture. Originaly 80% of the indian fijians are Tamils. But now almost 100% speaks Hindi..In India Hindi represents whole India..so many tamils who moved to North changed their language and dont speak tamil anymore. And if there is no DMK or Aringner ANNA no one would have been speaking Tamil by now. In Srilanka they have adopted singala and people who resist that are getting and will be killed within 10 years. Malasia Singapore either adopting english or Hindi...

Hey Lancelot! In Canada too, the audios r selling very fast. I go to this store to rent nadagams every two days for my mom since I am on summer holidays. Everyday I see it dissappear, it is very rare to sell like this here. Truly, amazing songs, hope they release 5.1 retail soon, I really need it. I listened to both Boys and Godfather. WOW! Brilliant.

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Originally Posted by mahen1

Hindi is at 3 and Tamil at 17. Why? Because Tamils are easily changing their language and culture. Originaly 80% of the indian fijians are Tamils. But now almost 100% speaks Hindi..In India Hindi represents whole India..so many tamils who moved to North changed their language and dont speak tamil anymore. And if there is no DMK or Aringner ANNA no one would have been speaking Tamil by now. In Srilanka they have adopted singala and people who resist that are getting and will be killed within 10 years. Malasia Singapore either adopting english or Hindi...

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Mahen, i'm an Indian first and then only my mother tongue comes.......for me Tamil will never die, also , big doesent mean great.......Hindi is big but not great........for any language related comments, send a presonal msg to me :D .......lets leave this thread.....

jacky and Dragun, u guys hit the nail on the head.......there are no good directors in Tamil who will want ARR now.........only SJ.Suryah will use ARR in all his movies.......the most disturbing thing is that even shankar wanted HJ for Shivaji, it was AVM's pressure which bought ARR in........so its better that ARR leave TFM now.........look at Bollywood, picture looks rosy:
Maniratnam ,Ashutosh Gowariker, Aamir Khan, Raykesh Mehra, Shah-rukh Khan (met him in London for their next farah khan film), Shyam Benegal, Rajkumar Santoshi, Ahmed Khan, Subash Ghai........boss its logic that ARR leaves TFM.......

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.........look at Bollywood, picture looks rosy:
Maniratnam ,Ashutosh Gowariker, Aamir Khan, Raykesh Mehra, Shah-rukh Khan (met him in London for their next farah khan film), Shyam Benegal, Rajkumar Santoshi, Ahmed Khan, Subash Ghai........boss its logic that ARR leaves TFM.......

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I don't think SRK particularly cares like Aamir does. Sure, ARR's done a few SRK films, but its not like he insisted on him.

Is it true that ARR turned down Main Hoon Na? Hindsight is 20/20...

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I don't think SRK particularly cares like Aamir does. Sure, ARR's done a few SRK films, but its not like he insisted on him.

Is it true that ARR turned down Main Hoon Na? Hindsight is 20/20...

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i dunt know abt Main hoon na but ARR surely turned down Darr, which is y till date chopras dont even look at ARR for their movies......i'm really happy that he is not working in those crappy veerzaaras and dil to pagal hais.....

SRK is very keen to work with ARR.....he has told that in a couple of fimfare interviews......but again he doesent demand his producers or directors like Aamir does......