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I`ve just watched some popular current indian films.
While the films themselves were a bit too silly for me, I`ve really enjoyed some of the scores.
Especially the films "Main Hoon Na" (score by a composer named Ranjit Barot) and also "Kal Ho Naa Ho" had very nice melodic orchestral scores.
Apparently there are song soundtracks of those films available.
Does anyone know if the scores are released as well ?
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Jun 12, 2005 - 12:05 PM
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Jon A. Bell
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Nice to see that there is interest in Bollywood film music. Interestingly Ive grown up watching all the films, its so much part of the Pakistani culture..
Its the songs which make or break the film. All songs are play backed and shot with actors ala Moulin Rouge. Which also parodied Indian Cinema (Chama Chama!)
The underscore which has rarely appeared in the film albums but not the trends are risjng owing to the major divcersification in music and sound that orchestral or intrumental sections are appearing. Kudos to A.R. Rahmans music. His BOMBAY theme(1994) blew me away. Im a full fledged orchestral freak and using eastern intruments and orchestra just worked wonderfull in that piece.
Some major hits recently were:
VEER ZARA & DEVDAAS
Amer
Although neither my wife nor I are Indian, we've gotten into Bollywood films the last few years, and some NRI friends of ours back in California laugh and say that, "we know more about these actors and films than they do!"
When we lived in the SF Bay area, we would trek down to Fremont occasionally and see first-run Bollywood films at the Naz-8 Cinema. Our absolute favorite, hands-down, is "Lagaan" -- not only a great Bollywood movie, but one of our favorite films of all time. (A close second is "Dil Chahta Hai.")
A. R. Rahman is a particular favorite of mine, too; I love his scores for "Lagaan," "Taal," "Earth: 1947" and others.
Finally, my wife and I saw the stars of Lagaan, and Aishwarya Rai, on stage in South San Francisco a few years back, and yes, it's true -- Ash is the most beautiful actress on the planet. Put virtually any Hollywood starlet next to her, and the Hollywood actress would look like a George Romero zombie in comparison.
-- Jon
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