Quote Originally Posted by P_R View Post
Thridiots thenali both rejeetted
That's like saying anbE sivam and thenAli are both not great films. Thenali ought to be an outright reject.
Quote Originally Posted by ajaybaskar View Post
Thenali songs were kinda above average stuff. As VTV said, ARR was running thro a lean patch then (2001?). Thenali,Paarthaale,Baba and Parasuram were not upto the standards of ARR. There were some odd gems in those albums too but as a whole album, they were letdowns. He was back with a bang in 'Boys'
For Rahman's standards, one has to say it's below average. It was not a lean patch per se in retrospect. thenAli was late 2000 but he also did Rhythm around the same time; Baba, pArththAlE etc. were in 2001 but he also did kannaththil the same year. But more importantly, he was doing some great stuff in Hindi these years, but I agree that it was odd to see Rahman churn out such indifferent stuff (especially stuff like Star, alli arjunA which seemed like he didn't even do them) for the first time.