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Shankar-Ehsan-Loy !

Topic started by cosmician (@ 194.170.127.53) on Sun Jun 24 00:21:11 EDT 2001.
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Shankar-Ehsan-Loy...maybe the only other MD with Bollywood roots also composing for TF....I was listening to their "Dil Chahta Hai"..except for the title track, all the other songs seem to meander around...but they are the only ones around in Bollywood who give a original techno touch to their music apart from ARR.

"Aalavandhaan" is their next big TF release...would like to hear your opinions on this trio.

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• From: Karthik S (@ 164.164.82.29) on: Tue Sep 11 07:51:49 EDT 2001
  
  Ehsaan:
  
  Do you guys plan to go solo sometime? 'Cos Shankar went solo with his Breathless aint it?
  
  And Loy has done quite some jingles and TV themes I presume! You planning anything on your own, ever?
  
  Shankar's Breathless was a amazing body of work. His inspiration from classical carnatic music and his interest in folkish forms of music (say, Maharashtrian folk) was quite apparent and very beautiful. And Loy's theme for The World This Week still ings in my ears! Is there something you have done on your own? Do lemme know!
  
  
• From: Karthik S (@ 164.164.82.29) on: Tue Sep 11 07:53:03 EDT 2001
  
  Nandhini:
  
  What are your other forthcoming songs? Any songs in tamil - with A R Rahman?? I'm curious!
  
  
• From: kiru (@ 192.138.149.4) on: Tue Sep 11 11:32:18 EDT 2001
  
  "unfortunately i'm told that nearly 75% of mass sales happen in smaller towns in the north.." Actually, I am very happy to hear this. This means that north is not that divided economically as I originally believed. The common man seems to have enough buying power.
  "generally people up north prefer songs they can relate to in terms of similarities to their folk music" hey..they are only asking for 'similarities' is this a big demand ? I would guess there should be enough scope for experimentation within the boundaries of rhythm the are looking for. As far as I know, Punjabis are very proud of their culture/music. It is this pride/self-esteem which makes them work hard and prosper. No wonder Punjab is one of the affluent states in India. Even outside India they are doing really well in US/Canada. Many CEOs of big software companies are Punjabis. So let us not totally forget our music. Most genres in the west were evolved locally (albeit with outside influences). Similarly, we should evolve our music gradually, not throw out everything for a totally 'new sound' overnight.
  
  Just my 2 cents worth.
  
  
• From: kiru (@ 192.138.149.4) on: Tue Sep 11 11:34:33 EDT 2001
  
  BTW, people in the US can visit dance clubs on nights when they have indian themes..most of the music is Punjabi.
  
  
• From: Bharath (@ 192.25.158.12) on: Tue Sep 11 14:45:59 EDT 2001
  
  enna r everyone watching the horror thats unwinding itself on TV!
  
  anybody in newyork!!!!!!
  
  
  
• From: UV (@ 138.88.95.173) on: Tue Sep 11 17:00:59 EDT 2001
  
  two of my friends cheated death as both of them work in Twin Towers one was actually in the office managed to getway before it collapsed the other one who works on the 100th floor got unsually delayed to the office also escaped.
  I offer my prayers and wishes to those people out there in manhattan
  
  
• From: Kumar (@ 130.213.203.254) on: Tue Sep 11 22:19:36 EDT 2001
  
  Hey UV, is ur friend from purdue univ ? My
  brother (from that univ) said his friend also
  escaped in the same way because he was late!
  
  Our heartfelt wishes for the people there and
  hope everyone gives enough blood to get thro'
  the situation.
  
  
• From: MS (@ 129.252.25.204) on: Tue Sep 11 23:23:35 EDT 2001
  
  UV:
  
  It is surprisingly similar to the escape of my freinds too. I guess, most of the people who escaped seemed to have had surprisingly similar narration.
  
  
• From: Jay. (@ 65.15.27.179) on: Wed Sep 12 00:19:07 EDT 2001
  
  Today was a terrifying day here in NY. My office is about 3 blocks from World trade center. I take the train to World trade and then walk to office...today luckily the train stopped at the station before and we were told that there was some emergency. I never thought it would be anything of this magnitude! I could see the
  building engulfed in flames...got out of the place right away. Reached back home safe.
  Its just scary.
  
  
  
  
• From: UV (@ 134.113.201.51) on: Wed Sep 12 09:53:32 EDT 2001
  
  Jay and others
  I am glad to hear that you guys made it safe.
  Here in DC i actually saw the smoke coming out of the pentagon buildings, my office is only few blocks away from white house.
  
  
• From: kiru (@ 192.138.149.4) on: Wed Sep 12 11:31:02 EDT 2001
  
  I am happy for the fortunate few that escaped and sorry for those who lost their lives in this mindless cruelty. I visited NY a little more than a year ago and stayed at the WTC, Marriot Hotel. I guess this hotel is burnt and destroyed as well. A black-and-white photograph of the WTC,against the Brooklyn bridge, that I bought from a side-walk vendor hangs on the wall of my house reminding of the once majestic buildings that are there no more !! It is really really sad..
  
  
• From: arochordidae (@ 204.50.249.134) on: Wed Sep 12 20:38:59 EDT 2001
  
  wow...Jay...even here in Canada (actually Toronto), we were effected to, well not to ur degree of course.
  
  Airplanes were cancelled and everyone was scared stiff.
  
  Now, this whole contrevarsary is the talk of the town!
  
  
• From: UV (@ 138.88.96.243) on: Wed Sep 12 22:19:18 EDT 2001
  
  Jay and others
  I saw reports coming from various places about attack on a paritcular community and their shop and worship places. So please take care and wear proper clothing so that people are not threatned or mistake you for somebody else.
  sorry I dont mean to sacre anyone of ,there was a serious incident in VA where a religious place was attacked so take care all of
  Peace
  God bless America
  
  
• From: polappu (@ 216.253.102.3) on: Thu Sep 13 12:06:18 EDT 2001
  
  UV,
  what in VA was attacked?
  
  polappu
  
  
• From: Bharath (@ 192.25.158.12) on: Thu Sep 13 13:00:09 EDT 2001
  
  polappu, UV,
  
  same thing happened in irving, texas, also sardars are also mistaken because of their head attire and r being targetted in some places.
  
  polappu! naanga enna solrom puriyum enaikaren, ayodhya matter mathiri, low level'a, rendu incident aachu!
  
  God bless America .. ithuve tharaka mantharamulu!
  
  
• From: Ram (@ 144.9.158.87) on: Fri Sep 14 12:22:09 EDT 2001
  
  Review of Abhay
  
  http://www.indiafm.com/musicreview/01/abhay/index.shtml
  
  
• From: Ehsaan (@ ) on: Sat Sep 22 01:19:32 EDT 2001
  
  Hello all was wondering whats happened to the bulletin board theres been no postingd for sometime
  
  
• From: rf (@ 64.12.104.54) on: Sat Sep 22 01:48:01 EDT 2001
  
  Hi Ehsaan: How goes there? I am also checking in once a while to see movement here, nothing much. Could be the situation in the US...
  
  
• From: Kumar (@ 24.4.252.80) on: Sat Sep 22 13:04:21 EDT 2001
  
  Ehsaan,
  
  Do you you when the movie is going to be released (Abhay/Aalavandaan)?
  
  
• From: S T S (@ 66.42.0.162) on: Sat Sep 22 21:36:16 EDT 2001
  
  Ehsaan,
  
  Same old question. Are you working in any Tamil films after Aalavandhaan?
  
  
• From: IR fan. (@ 172.173.99.157) on: Sun Sep 23 01:53:15 EDT 2001
  
  Eshaan,
  Saw dil chaata hai today. music was good.
  The last song was too good (but bit long). Usualy
  iam not impressed with just good tunes. You guys comes close.
  
  earlier in this forum I have posted that SEL's songs sound repeatative. Now I feel its because of shankars way of sing some racy numbers ( like the 1st song in DCH). Please use differnt singers for such songs.
  different singers
  
  
• From: Ehsaan (@ 203.197.79.143) on: Sun Sep 23 14:12:29 EDT 2001
  
  No idea when Abhay is going to be released.
  The next Tamil release is with Mamooty the Hindi version is called Shafaq no idea what the Tamil version is called.
  Thanks for your words IR Fan.
  
  
• From: yvs mani (@ 164.100.11.114) on: Tue Sep 25 00:30:39 EDT 2001
  
  Aalavandhaan is in No.1 position in Vijay TV's countdown programme chikku bukku for the past 4 ( or more) weeks. The countdown is based on cassette sales.
  
  
• From: Karthik S (@ 164.164.82.29) on: Tue Sep 25 02:13:45 EDT 2001
  
  Ehsaan speaks about the making of the music of Aalavanthaan!
  
  http://www.radiosargam.com/features/interviews/ehsaanabhay.htm
  
  "Kamal Hassan And We Connect As People"
  
  Music director Ehsaan relives the experience of creating the music of Abhay.
  
  It was not by chance that we got to do the music of Abhay. Shankar had already sung a song for the Kamal Hassan starrer Tenali.
  
  So, it came as no surprise when we received a call from Kamal Hassan asking us to meet him at his Bombay flat. We met for about two hours and spoke about… everything else but Abhay. We spoke about religion, World War 2,
  
  Hollywood… the topics seem endless. To put it in simple words, we connected as people. It was later that Kamal Haasan mentioned that he was working on this screenplay and would call us as soon as something concrete was ready.
  
  Later, when things fell into place, we flew down to Chennai where he narrated the screenplay of his film Abhay. Our first thought was "Wow does music really fit into this film?"
  
  For starters Kamal and Suresh Krishna (director) told us to come up with a title song for the Tamil version Alavandhan. And we came back to Mumbai. At that time, we were in the middle of the background score for Mission Kashmir.
  
  We jammed to create the title song of Abhay. What we came up with was completely on the edge as far as Indian film music is concerned with all its dark techno influences.
  
  We loved it but sent it to Chennai expecting a complete "bounce" and a polite goodbye from the compositional duties of Abhay. Surprisingly we got a call from Kamal and the producers saying that they loved the music!!!!!!
  
  The next meeting was in Ooty where Kamal was shooting. Javed Akhtar and Tamil lyricist Vairamuthu were there too And we came with most of the ideas for the songs Koyal Si and Zingoria and Hasde it was wonderful seeing the two top lyricists in their fields coming up with so many words.
  
  The rest of the songs were going to be dialogue-poetry driven compositions, which were going to be a narrative of the negative character Abhay.
  
  Essentially the music of Abhay is music for an action film and music composed for the two widely opposite characters in the film Kamal as the Army Officer and Kamal as the psychopath.
  
  When one sees the film the songs will fall into place with the visual support. There are essentially three songs and three cinematic pieces of music, which are a narrative of the character Abhay.
  
  Talking of responses, we have had response from the press and various reviews saying that after Dil Chahta Hai, Abhay was a letdown. Essentially one has to realize that we compose music for a film. If the film is a trendy, young film like Dil Chahta Hai we will compose that kind of music. Abhay is not the kind of film where Kamal Hassan suddenly gets beamed to Switzerland where he is prancing through the snow with Raveena.
  
  Look at the soundtrack for the genre of film it has been composed for. If you hear a Hindi soundtrack of ours for a film called Shool it is very much in the same cinematic vein where a film has to have the minimum of pure entertainer songs to do justice to the script and the screenplay.
  
  Our songs are not bit and pieces lent to the film. They are a part of the film as the narrative itself.
  
  EHSAAN NOORANI
  
  
• From: polappu (@ 216.253.102.3) on: Tue Sep 25 10:38:14 EDT 2001
  
  ehsaan,
  "Talking of responses, we have had response from the press and various reviews saying that after Dil Chahta Hai, Abhay was a letdown."
  
  -- Hang in there, don't get discouraged by bad press response or anything. Come back here to check for reviews after the movie is out...
  
  

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