



Talking about the slow decline of original music in the Hindi film industry, the composer says, “I am nobody to comment on why it is not happening today. It is everybody’s personal choice and everybody has a different way of composing. However, I think the primary reason might be that the person who makes the music is different from the person taking the decision to put out the music. The power of the person who decides which music will come out - is a non-music person. Music is created by someone who understands it.”Įmpathising with the struggle to make original music, Mahadevan says, “We should not blame music composers.

I don’t think the music composers have a say today, the producers and music labels believe that by remixing an old song or adding some rap and beats to an old song will make it successful. I don’t think they are thinking about musicality, or sustainability, or giving out new melody. It is about business it is about Friday-Saturday-Sunday crowd pulling. They don’t care if music works or doesn’t. They are not worried about who is singing or how it is being received.As part of the Qatar India 2019 year of culture, Naveen Kumar performed Music of Bollywood with Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra sponsered by the Embassy of India in the 8 Feb, 2019 in Qatar National Convention Center - Almayasa theatre. In 2018, Mahadevan recreated the song to highlight the programmes and initiatives of the Narendra Modi-led government.This is a performance of the famous song by the grammy winning music director A.R.Rahman, called the Cry of Rose from the movie Roja(1992) I feel privileged to have played for this wonderful movie then and feel thrilled every time I perform it.Īrtist whom performed Pt.Tanmoy Bose, Pt. This was the beginning of a long association, as Shankar, along with Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa (as Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy), went on to score music for all of the films directed by Farhan and Zoya Akhtar.īoth Shankar and Javed Akhtar later reunited to come out with "Breathless Reprise," a similar song whose story takes off from where "Breathless" ended. The music video of the title song "Breathless" was directed by Farhan Akhtar and his sister Zoya Akhtar. The music album was a huge success, selling over 300,000 copies and topped all major music charts in India for about 10 straight weeks.
