Rahman's Victory

Yes Rahman won a Golden Globe, while I've never doubted his abilities as a musician I must confess I've never been a huge Rahman fan. I guess Rahman is too sophesticated for me, personally I always feel that in Rahman's songs - music has always over-powered lyrics. For the next sentence I am sure I will get a lot of brickbats but what the heck - I have always been a huge Anu Malik fan - that's of course before he began copying music from english films. One of my favourite Hindi film track happens to be Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Ayi, and songs such as "Sambhala hai maine bahut apne dil ko," "Chaha to bahut" happen to be all time favourites. 

Well coming back to Rahman - I think his golden globe is well deserved - the guy is talented but what sets him apart is that with all the success around him he continues to be well grounded as compared to many other Indian celebrities. When asked why he keeps an extremely low profile, Rahman's response is "if you jump too much you will loose all your energy mid-way and I know I still have a long way to go!" The same applies to our golden globe victory as well, we shoudln't jump too much. 

However, at the same time I feel that Jai Ho, is not one of Rahman's best songs - Rahman has given better in Lagaan and any many of his other films then why Slumdog Millionaire? There's an oldage that when the time is right, everything falls in place slowly and steadily - maybe this holds true for Rahman's victory as well. With hollywood film studios suddenly discovering that India and Indian films are a huge industry and a good place to make money.  Warner Brothers, Tristar Columbia, Sony Pictures, Viacom 18 suddenly everyone is investing in Bollywood. Sony burnt its hands with Sawariya, and more recently Warner signed a three film deal in India. Paramount Pictures parent Viacom formed Viacom-18 which is now bringing out Mtv Roadies and is raking money on the popular adventured reality show. Sony has signed a deal with Eros entertainment to make 6 films next year. 
All this co-inciding with Rahman's win, does show that the West now desperately wants to woo the East. It reminds me of the 1990's when Indian women were winning International beauty pageants at dozens and soon we saw western cosmetic companies making inroads into India.

I guess someone rightly said, "its all about money, honey!" Till then jai ho! To West and its excellent policies and to India, for applauding anything that is foriegn and has a gora stamp attached to it!