PostCredits:Bhuvi Suresh
Interviewer: Can I give a
suggestion perhaps. Considering
that you bring in a lot of different
world sounds, from different parts of
the world, how about doing a song
only with Kerala musical
instruments?
ARR: Good Idea. In fact one of
the bands gave me all the
percussion instruments after an
award I gave. They were so moved
they gave me all the instruments
they played, still I have that, I don't
know what to do with it.
Interviewer: Why don't you
consider doing something, perhaps
for Asianet?
ARR : Asianet…
Interviewer: For your own
reason…but something…
ARR: Well, there will be
something, you never know. When
it'll come.
Interviewer: Where does it, when
does the spark come in, when do
you realize that I am going to work
on this and not on that?
ARR: I don't know, because
there are some albums which I have
done, Dakshinamoorthy Swami has
composed it…(some part missing)
Interviewer: Do you think you are
perhaps handicapped if you weren't
too well versed in Carnatic or
Hindustani music?
ARR: No I don't think so,
because if I was fully into one music,
I wouldn't have embraced the other
kind of music, but the idea of going
something, having the object of look
on musical landscapes, the
landscapes are different. There are
extraordinary geniuses in Carnatic
music, and Hindustani and every…
But I felt that because my
understanding is more from a
distant point of view I can get away
with certain kinds of things which I
can't if I had known too much of
nuances.
Interviewer: Sometimes… you
picked up (some singers name)
randomly pull out of audience and
make them stars. What is it that
make you feel that this star material,
this is the guy who will make it
work?
ARR: I never do that. They
have it in them and that's what
happens. I can never make a person
star. What I can do is I can just try
them out and if they have it in
them, it shows, adrenalin comes in,
the life comes out, and nobody can
halt that.
Interviewer: Where does the role
of a composer begin, and a singer
begin? Where is that dichotomy? Is
there a dichotomy at all? Or who
needs to be credited for a song's
success?
ARR: I think we are all
instruments, we are all acting upon
what we have to do. So nobody is in
control, God is in control. And when
Minmini just came and sang the
track, so God wanted that to happen.
Interviewer: Are you treating it
very spiritually this way?
ARR: I am in a way, actually,
because things are put together,
and because you believe in good
things, I feel that things come
together.. even if you want,
sometimes you want a singer for a
song for a concert and they don't
come for ages and you call another
singer, he sings the song and it
becomes much better, and this
happens everytime. And then you
think that may be he was the person
to sing this song.
Interviewer: But what is one
song you would want to give in birth
for?
ARR : I don't know.
Interviewer: Something which is
very close to your heart?
ARR: I cannot …each person
has one, no two people will say the
same song. They are all beautiful. So
I give respect to them ,and nothing
to comment.
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