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AR Rahman's Tamil Blockbuster "BOYS"

Topic started by Theepan (@ 209.197.167.70) on Tue May 6 23:23:20 EDT 2003.
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Rahman's much anticipated "Boys" is set to release soon and everyone is keen on finding out more about this album. Who are the singers? What are the soundtracks like? When is the release date? Will the album be delayed? If anyone has any idea; please post here....

Also; use this thread to discuss this album..

Here is what i found::

Typical of Shankar, the director is not prepared to say much about the film at this point. However, it is known that the film will be very youthful, almost teeny-bop, in content, with the majority of the cast being in the 16-23 age group.

Shankar, apparently, has decided to cast all new faces in his film – and the younger the better.

In fact, a mention in various Tamil periodicals, and an accompanying advertisement to the effect that Shankar was looking for new faces, has created a headache of sorts for the producers. Curriculums vitae have been pouring in to the Surya Movies post box ever since the ad and the story ran in the vernacular press – and last heard from, the flood shows no signs of abating.

Curiously enough, the ad appears – thanks to emails and discussion groups – to have reached an audience abroad as well, with the result that newer batches of applications have US, British and suchlike stamps on them, which suits the producer and director fine since the film does incorporate a lot of NRI faces.

For Shankar, Boys will be a return to romance after Kadhalan, and to comedy after the Aishwarya Rai-Prashanth starrer Jeans. Though the film will feature fresh – and ergo, inexpensive – faces, Shankar maintains that the film will be typical of his style, which means lavish budgets, and expensive production values.

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• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Thu Jul 17 16:59:33 EDT 2003
  
  V!!
  Who cares!!
  IR visited Hungary to do Hey Ram
  This analogy sucks, still IR came up with a complete good music album!! and Timefactor very less (atleast less than 2 years)...
  
  It adds value nevertheless to visit the local areas to have SMELL of what music they give!!
  
  
  
• From: agneye (@ 209.48.32.2) on: Thu Jul 17 17:01:54 EDT 2003
  
  Going thru all ARR vs. IR posts, I think most of you are forgetting the important factor here i.e. Money or more precisely $$. We need people who will provide entry for Indian talent pool from Tamil, Hindi movie fields to world market. This should result in backdoor entry for many background artists or technicians. We need to create income source in various industrial, cultural sectors. Just like many of Indian software professional travel USA to earn bread & butter, let people from tamil /hindi movie industries enter into world market. Looking at BD’s success there will be more who will realize potential of Indian talent. Just like the way SK introduced ARR to UK; Unfortunately with IR , his skills got exposed only to tfm. If ever he faced right market, he could have worked wonders with his originality. So please don’t limit artist to local market, let his work flow into places.
  
  
• From: V (@ 147.129.99.180) on: Thu Jul 17 17:10:23 EDT 2003
  
  IR visited Hungary to introduce a Hunagrian flavor to Hey Ram??
  
  Please rad my post carefully. ARR did not make these visits to have a gala time or to tell the press boastfully that he went there and met this guy and that guy!
  
  ARR's visit was to make him feel how the visuals of the movie were going to come out. Accordingly he can compose the soundtrack to compliment the canvas
  
  
  Now the stupid analogy you gave about IR visiting Hungary is completely out of place?? For what did he visit? He did it for recording the songs with Laszlow Kovach and his symphony. Not to research Hungarian music!
  
  
• From: V (@ 147.129.99.180) on: Thu Jul 17 17:11:20 EDT 2003
  
  agneye!
  
  very true!
  
  
• From: Paran (@ 203.123.16.197) on: Thu Jul 17 23:51:41 EDT 2003
  
  Just to rub the salt on the pain...
  
  the way some of u ppl are talking is just like
  
  "man, this guy is the best Basketball player in the world. But he joined NBA, and was not successful, coz NBA doesn't play good basketball"???!!!!!
  
  Huh?...is that the case
  
  
• From: Stroustrup Sabapathy (@ 161.114.64.75) on: Fri Jul 18 00:24:10 EDT 2003
  
  Why r u guys forever talking about IR? Boys not good enough for further review? Forgotten Baba, Udhaya, Parasuram pathi pechu moochey kaanum, sarakku pathule-nu solreengala? :)
  
  
• From: Paran (@ 203.123.16.197) on: Fri Jul 18 00:56:54 EDT 2003
  
  DEar Stroustrup Sabapathy,
  
  it's IR fans camp that are doing the talking abt IR....on the WRONG THREAD...
  they dont feel secured talking abt IR in their own thread...and so they hijacked a popular and most accesed thread...
  
  well...they need attention....
  
  
• From: Speaker (@ 203.126.142.232) on: Fri Jul 18 01:42:41 EDT 2003
  
  ARR's visit was to make him feel how the visuals of the movie were going to come out. Accordingly he can compose the soundtrack to compliment the canvas >>> BULLSH*T!
  He can do the same for all movies esp PARASURAM.
  
  
• From: ambleen (@ 61.8.210.77) on: Fri Jul 18 02:03:37 EDT 2003
  
  Dear Paran,
  
  it's ARR threads where they hint of jealousy and vaitherruchal abt IR ask your forefathers in this thread...if u can find them :)
  
  better 2 noe sum history 1st.
  
  
• From: Paran (@ 203.123.16.197) on: Fri Jul 18 02:12:35 EDT 2003
  
  Ha ha ha..
  good one ambleen...
  
  if no one from ur camp...(not all of them of course...)..came here and started comparing BOYS with IR's albums....my forefathers would not start to talk abt IR for no reason.....right?
  
  if the same thing happened in "UR" thread..we get the blame...when the same thing happened in our thread, still we have to take the blame?...no way
  
  
• From: Mumbai Ramki (@ 203.193.152.201) on: Fri Jul 18 02:42:34 EDT 2003
  
  Mr V ,
  "Now the stupid analogy you gave about IR visiting Hungary is completely out of place?? For what did he visit? He did it for recording the songs with Laszlow Kovach and his symphony. Not to research Hungarian music"
  
  Indeed IR went the second time in 2000 (or 2001) to do research in music !!!!Nobody is questioning the spontainety of ARR !! Also composing just once spontaneously will not be indication of his spontaneous music .Better will be to say we don't know about his capability !!!!
  
  But IR's spontaneous talent was apprecited by eminent composers like John Scott and conductors like Laslo Kovach !!!!
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.79) on: Fri Jul 18 03:25:42 EDT 2003
  
  u c paran,this ambleen & co,knows no one will go to thier shitty IR thread,so they come (they know)& talk abt the greatness of IR ..in the most visited thread becoz of his name : A.R.Rahman...hmm..u see...how IR fans depending on Arrahman to spread the 'greatness' of thier kind od music : Illairaja ... which is NOT!!
  
  
• From: Stroustrup Sabapathy (@ 161.114.64.75) on: Fri Jul 18 03:51:17 EDT 2003
  
  Jalra session started!
  Ellarum one big round of applause kodunga!
  
  
• From: arpeggiator (@ 66.122.214.130) on: Fri Jul 18 03:51:31 EDT 2003
  
  "2.he composes tunes very fast… but his fillings in the Background and interlude takes more time…. He keeps on adding sounds ….. ever wondered y IR’s songs have a thin Background and ARR’s is always loaded heavily….. "
  sounds like you know something..but the problem is mainly recording..IR recording quality is very bad and on top of that the vocals has high volume.
  also you cannot do this for melody songs..Anyways..dont kid us..ARR takes lot of time to because he has to listen through all the sample CDs and latest albums to get the latest sound, right ?
  
  
• From: Paran (@ 203.123.16.197) on: Fri Jul 18 04:09:48 EDT 2003
  
  DEar arpeggiator,
  
  I've read Srinivas interview on the net somewhere...will try to get it ..
  he mentioned...
  
  ARR will tell them tune to sing..and ask them to rehearse..and within 2 minutes he will come up with a wonderful tune...
  and they sing based on that..
  but when the song actually gets released..it will sound so much different from what the singers have heard while in the studio...
  
  so u..see...(whatever u suppose to see)
  
  
• From: MADDY (@ 203.94.218.169) on: Fri Jul 18 06:38:25 EDT 2003
  
  do u guys know that ARR composes 10-12 tunes for each song and it is the director's choice to select the tunes... no wonder Shankar,Mani and Bharathiraja get the best out of ARR..... so ARR is gud and fast in composing tunes too..(IR also does the same thing, but i just want to tell u guys that ARR is no different)
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Fri Jul 18 08:59:57 EDT 2003
  
  V,
  First of all I accepted that It was a stupid analogy by me, but you dont read the discussion fully, just parts, it shows how much you understand or take time to understand.
  What i was trying to suggest is, yeah it adds value, but the fact is, IR gave quality music no matter what, and with the time frames being so limited.
  I give up, coz you guys dont really know what you are talking, just say something for the sake of it.
  I will also take responsibility, coz I am not in India or in TN to verify all that is happening.
  
  Good luck if Boys do perform well!!
  
  ( I will still say, Dating is the only song from start to finish that goes smooth (this is my personal opinion and taste) )
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Fri Jul 18 09:08:14 EDT 2003
  
  V
  Another thing, Atleast i felt the WCM in Hey Ram!!! and can remember the gr8 musical score along with the lots of bits still lingering in my ears.
  This is for the matter of fact called FUSION, making even a person who does not know music or lot of musical sense appreciate it, having people sing songs who cannot express Tamil words properly, and apart from that, too much of shouting in the BGMS
  
  May be I am wrong, IR also had be blamed for some of the imports, i really hated KR for making Udit sing the Kasumela song (though it is all my personal opinions), but he did come out with a splending album in ALBUM
  
  this is how I think music should be, songs should have lyrics, nice interludes, and good vocals, BGM should have nice serene life like music that elevates the scene.. IR time and again did that
  ARR did not!!! Songs too much of music, lots of unnecessary interludes (may be that is the strength of the song too, i dont know), BGM with lot of noice (people shouting)...
  
  And surely it is not HOLLYWOOD STYLE MUSIC COMPOSING..
  
  
  
• From: MUSIC LOVER (@ 195.39.134.84) on: Fri Jul 18 09:35:22 EDT 2003
  
  KADAL KONDAEN HAS GIVEN SHANKAR AND ARR A RUN FOR THIER MONEY,BOYS CASSETTE SALES HAVE SUCKED BIG TIME AND ARR'S LAST CHANCE TO PROVE HIMSELF HAS ALSO NOT BEEN UTILISED WELL.ARR MAY UR SOUL REST IN PEACE- AMEN
  
  

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