music for the head

I felt glad that at last Bharadwaj Rangan has understood that the music of A R Rahaman is for the head and not for the heart after listening to his recent album Ravana. Rahaman is undoubtedly a highly over- rated music composer of recent times. The aquisition of OSCAR made the Indian and the world press go further mad in showering encomiums on him and his absolutely synthetic music. In the numerous music shows which are conducted by television channels, witness and hear the new crop of aspiring singers sing songs only from old films and not from Rahaman's numbers as they are highly meandering' manipulated, convoluted and impossible scores.
His initial forays in computerisastion of music and maneuvering of voices might have been novel for music aficinodos. But as days passed, he could hardly compose any simple or straight tune with malody or harmony. All his songs were outright noise in the most chaotic, cluttered and unconventional manner. The youth of India found it enlightening as they always fancy anything flavoured with western influence and the critics are too different to comment on him. The winning of OSCAR for the most unoriginal and insipid score, he attained the status of God. Reffering him as a MOZART OF MADRAS is nothing but a great affront piled on the legendery composer.
DEVAVRATHAN