PostCredits: Bhuvi Suresh
Interviewer: "Do you pick up music
from your sorroundings, and may be
subconsciously perhaps?
ARR: Subconsciously I like to see
what is happening in the area, like
I was very pretty surprised when I
went to Jeddah, and find the seal of
Lebanon and Beirut, making a
different kind of music. And Dubai
ofcourse is another big creative place
where I have been to. I have not
followed that much because I have been
involved in something else like Lord of
the Rings and Elizabeth and my own
projects which were K M Music. But I
think it evolved in it, like Arabic
music. There is a quality production
at the same time maintaining the
tradition of the Makkah..
Interviewer: "Do you obviously try
to bring in the new element, let's say,
like if it's Arabic or Sufi that now
that affects you, do you try to
subconsciously bring them to the songs
that you do? Or is it really technical…
ARR: it's that it's mostly
dependent on the Director. If
something is good I tell them that you
wanna hear this and he hears it and
if they like it they embrace it, if
they don't then I keep it as it.
Interviewer: Since you mentioned
Lord of the Rings, you just completed
album with that Warriors of Heaven
and Earth, the Chinese movie… I mean you
are really going international. Is
it something that you really aspired
for? What does it mean to you, this
international reputation?
ARR: …For me I think music is…when I
do music for a Tamil movie it is as
respectful as when I do it for a
Hollywood film. I don't think "oh it
is a Tamil movie, let me do it all
shoddy…give more finished work
…(blurring )…hopefully I treat them all
equally, whether it's American
audience or Indian audience. And
that's other one of the reasons why it
transcends the audience.
Interviewer: When you work with the
western orchestra, what is one
similarity or one difference that you
find compared to the Indian team with
which you work?
ARR: I…here, I think once you work
with musicians you know, you just
have to say, we have to begin something
and they will end that for you, they
can take it further. But when you work
with musicians you don't know,
especially cast and orchestra, you
need to write everything, you need to
show them all, so you can't have it in
mind and think that you can pull it
off. You need to…there's a full process
of orchestrating and copying down
the stuff to the orchestra…
Interviewer: So it is more
challenging?
ARR: It's not challenging, it's
just the step towards that. I can't now
wake up in the afternoon and say
"call the orchestra, let me do a song." I
can do that in Chennai. But I can't do
that else. I need to have an orchestra
booked three months in advance, I want
to finish the scoring and then on the
day of the recording they play. So it
can't be done overnight. Everybody is
preoccupied.
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