Short take on CWG Theme
Language: ‘Swagatham’ is written in Hindi with a few English words.Lead Singer: A.R. Rahman
Launch Date: August 28, 2010.
The composer about whom I’ve praised enthusiastically in this blog is none other than A R Rahman –the way he has changed the INDIAN film music.
Having composed two theme songs
- World Classical Tamil Conference.
Third being CWG theme. The nation seems to be un-inquisitive about CWG, so seems to be A R Rahman .
My question is “what is the shelf life of these theme songs?”
I’m befuddled with the idea of using a celebrated, globally renowned composer for scoring a theme song that may never be used or remembered beyond one evening
The Composition:
Rahman merely creates a track which appears to be having an influence of mid 80’s or 90’s English rock music-repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar. The awesome amalgamation of Mandolin, percussion/drums, keyboards are interesting and lilting too. Rahman gets back his senses at the end and realizes that this theme song is intended for Indian People and lends in Dholak pieces to wrap it up.
Singers:
AR Rahman has bestowed his soaring vocals for maximum impact. Rapper Blazzee peps up with English wordses, quite forced, unnecessary and pointless.
Vibrant, stylish and vernal music addressing urban mortals; will fail to impregnate masses from sub-urban, towns and villages.
I personally believe that these initiatives gain more from Rahman’s name attached to them, rather than Rahman gaining anything from them (A whooping 5+ Cr pay for 4 1∕2
minute song). That, of course, does not make it any less important for Rahman to decline such opportunities, but I really wonder why an incredibly busy composer who has top-ranked directors and producers waiting in queue outside his house to sign him for their projects, agree to such one-off efforts that may be used once in their life time and idolized only by fanatic followers?
