But let me start first with the same suggetions with which the interview ended with - "we hope everything just keeps going fine for you and you learn to 'just chill'." 😊
Originally posted by: karan_bhai
Ok, ab main aa gaya hoon sabki bolti band karne. I had seen this interview and was very happy with the way he handled it and his answers, specially because he quoted my fren in the interview. You know this fren of mine is making a web-site for HR fans and was also on the Forum for quite some time.
But i wish HR would have been a bit harsher and more blunt. When the interviewer asked him as to how he takes this critism, he should have said that famous hindi phrase 'Jab Haathi chalta hai toh kutte bhonkte hain, par haathi ko isse koi farak nahi padta'. Now that would have been arrogant ! I would have loved it coz that how even I feel.
That why i like SRK too, he has this thing about his answers where people feel he is arrogant, but he cares a damn and so should HR.
HR should realise that no one will ever be commercially as successful as he is, i bet that no once can have 10 albums with over 10 lac sales in a period of 12 months, i can bet that with anyone. HR music sells and thats the bottom line. As he said, he is taken in a movie to give a hit score and boost the movie, thats all what he does. Bekaar movies like Aashiq banaya aapna, Aksar & TDH have got good openings and have done reasonably good business, is only because of the songs (primarily). Today a HR movie sells min of 10 lac cassettes and some even cross 3-4 million, at 50 rs a cassette (or 100 a cd), the music company makes minimum 5 crores and even as much as 15 crores. Well no wonder Audio rights for his movies are selling for 2-3 crores, HR should bloody charge half the amount and become the highest paid MD in history.
Sabka bolti bandh karne!! Haila! Mumbai ka don ka mafik baat karrela hai re tu! 😲 😆😆
Now to start with - thank god HR didn't say something in the tone you mentioned above. No one in the movie industry ever said something like that apart from OP (you know him right?) and that arrogance caused him a lot. Despite of immense potential and great creations - he doesn't get place in the top tier of MDs - isn't that sad?
For rest of the post - again only market data - quantified evaluation of art form! Oh wait, sorry I forgot, you already accepted the fact that before that HR is the best MD only according to balance books! Quoting you from a different thread, just for those who came late!
Originally posted by: karan_bhai
I never said HR was the Best MD, my statement was that HR has been Commercially the most successful MD so far in Hindi film music. Am i wrong when i say this ??? For MD's are never best its always their compositions. I was speaking only from commercial angle.
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Now for the interview:
No, my inspiration is god alone. I think there is some divine intervention in my life. I always say that there is a force that is making me compose so many tunes. I have got a stock of 1,000 compositions. Many a times, even in five days, you are not able to make a composition yet I am composing at least two-three songs in a day.
WoW almost like a stock photo library. 1000 songs - readymade! Why not put a vending machine in front of his house - producer can insert credit card and get the tune they want! 😉
Also a web based shopping cart will be great. Then Our Himesh bhai can have some more time to enjoy parties!
For the divine intervention - just to recap the old masterpiece 😆
I go into my past memories looking into my experiences in life, thinking about how a common man would identify with my songs—a song that would touch him. There is this feeling among the audience that I must have gone through some major personal experience in life which is not really true. I just try to play the role of this common man who is madly in love.
Anuradha SenGupta: So you are a composer only for the romantics. There is nobody else in your world. If you are not a romantic you cannot appreciate Himesh Reshammiya.
Himesh Reshammiya: Yes, absolutely. I completely agree, but of course I would like to do some work that would give me critical acclaim. Like I did Benaras and got a lot of critical acclaim for that, but the market just did not respond to Benaras. But in Aashiq banaya apne, Zara jhoom and Jhalak dikhla ja there is that bit of pain in it.
If you look at the lyrics of these songs, the words say that the singer is talking about missing someone. But then I didn't want to make boring remorseful songs. There is pain in it but at the same time there is a foot tapping beat also.
Few clarifications and observations -
Imagine a common man madly in love and missing someone - so in the deep pain he starts tapping his foot!!! May be he meant common bhoot rather! Or imagine Emran Hashmi as a common man in those soft P*** picturazition (not a fault of HR though) - such a deep pain!! 😕
A romantic song can't be a critically acclaimed one!! What kind of logic is this? How many examples you need here?
remorseful = boring? Forget old songs - "aye ajnabi" (Dil se/ARR), "tadap tadap" (HDDCS/ID) is boring?
"Zara jhoom and Jhalak dikhla ja there is that bit of pain in it" - a bit?!! Why being so modest? Whenever I hear those 2 - I quiver with immense pain!! 😆😆😆
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan sang for 30 years in the high pitch. Why nobody called him nasal then?
That's sheer audacity. I do hope it's another case of misquoting.
Himesh Reshammiya: When money and reputation is at stake, I can't take chances. Producer, director, actors and music company's interest is at stake, I certainly can't take chances. I have taken a chance in Benaras and a lot of appreciation came falling on it. Yet it did not sell. Then I thought of a way to compose such music, which would sell, be extremely popular especially among the youngsters.
Kudos to HR for such a honest answer! Hats off to him! 👏
aapki kashish is a very soulful raag based composition, yet a very difficult song.
First a question - can anyone enlighten me - what raaga it is based on?
Second - Raaga based compositions are easy to render? 😕
Yes, I'm enjoying being what I am. I get that free time after 12'o clock. That is when I stop working, from twelve to three am I get time for my friends, restaurants, movies and so on. That is when I feel that everything is going fine. Those few hours I tell myself that everything is going is fine. I work the rest of the 23 hours to achieve that 'everything is going fine.' I work those 23 hours because I don't want spend those few hours in stress that everything is not going fine.
(This one courtesy Shady)
Okay did I read this right?? He parties from 12 to 3, and he works the rest of the 23 hours?? Please don't tell me he thinks there are 26 hours in a day!!! 😕😕
More later 😳
