He sounds like he’s simply carrying a torch for someone, until the number launches him into the upper registers and it becomes a big, flaming torch. I preferred the way Arijit Singh carries the tune. Poorvi Koutish belts out the words as though spewing out lava. The former sounds like 80s pop-rock, like Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of The Heart, or if Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Want To Have Fun dialled itself down a few notches in the fun department. The themes run through the music as well, like in the female/male variants of Jwalamukhi, voiced by Poorvi Koutish and Arijit Singh. The words that keep coming up are about love ( aashiqa, humnawaa, junoon, fitoor, jiya ), religion ( dua, khuda, Rab, farishta, Sai) and - intriguingly - motherhood ( maa, laadla, mera chand ). It’s a concept album, like the thematically linked whoppers that major rock bands used to make when music was more than just something you listened to while doing the dishes or driving to work. This isn’t just a movie’s soundtrack album. Let’s just sit in silence, for a moment, and acknowledge that something like this exists. Let’s not get to the “Is it good?” question right away. (Yes, I’m talking about Bigil, Lingaa, Mohenjo what-the-heck-was-that Daro ).Īnd now, we have the ambitious AR Rahman, the existential AR Rahman, the “what’s left to aim for after winning two Oscars and two Grammies?” AR Rahman, the AR Rahman who’s branching out as producer and co-story writer, the AR Rahman who’s dropped the 14 songs of 99 Songs on us. Psst! There’s also the AR Rahman who does films that don’t really need an AR Rahman.
LINES FROM TAMIL CINEMA MUSIC ABOUT LOVE IN TAMIL MOVIE
And yet, there’s the AR Rahman who still delivers for homies like Mani Ratnam and Shankar, who won’t make a movie without him. (He’s not the same guy who gave us Delhi-6, some people will whisper.) We also have the AR Rahman who seems to have grown bored with local fodder and seeks greener grass outside the country, with artistes like Majid Majidi ( Beyond the Clouds ) and Gurinder Chadha ( Viceroy’s House ) and Jeff and Michael Zimbalist ( Pelé: Birth of a Legend ). (There’s never been a consistently undisputed No.1 after him, at least in Tamil film music.) Then there’s the AR Rahman who’s seen as a spent force. Just how many AR Rahman s are there? For starters, there’s the AR Rahman who’s been at the top of the music-industry food chain for 27 years, and counting.
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