Slumdog Millionaire Wins 8 Oscars!!!!!!!

At the right place at the right time
I was waiting for Oscars to be over to write something regarding pouring of awards for the music score of Slum Dog Millionaire. Heartiest congratulation to AR Rahman for his feat before I downpour my feelings. I know all and sundry will be showering their praise on AR Rahman including me too as a nationalist. But with due apologies I cannot digest the choice of jury of respective awards committees for bestowing awards on our very lovable A R Rahman. I still rate this music director as an overrated music director. May be he is the best amongst the present mediocre music directors who in today’s scenario sometimes entrusted with scoring tunes for different individual songs and we do not find even one song from that film’s soundtrack worth mentioning. In Rahman’s case it seems to be at the right place at the right time For the last 15 years in his filmi career starting from Roza with due apology to his music I fail to recollect even fifteen songs which have left any mark in the Indian film music histoy. The music of those films are mostly forgotten the moment the films are removed from the cinema halls. Sorry folks people may think I am too harsh but I cannot help it as I have been used to listen the songs of Indian film music which was undoubtedly the golden era of Indian film music in the fifties, sixties and to some extent even in seventies.
If the music of slumdog, taal, mangal pandey, Jaane tu ya .. …has to be appreciated what would you call the music of fifties and sixties. I quote here one example. In the year 1955 for the Filmfare awards (that tine it was the only prestigious award available )Azad, Udan Khatola, Nagin Shree 420 and Devdas were nominated and among these films the filmfare jury selected Nagin as the best music score and that years music director award went to Hemant Kumar. Though.I am not mentioning the other hits of that year it is for the public to guess what C Ramchandra Naushad, SD Burman and Shanker Jaikishen would have gone through for not getting the coveted filmfare trophy despite nomination as other nominated film’s music was equally hit amongst masses. During the 50s and 60s even talented Khayyam could not get his due recognition with films like Phir Subah Hogi and Shola Aur Shabnam as the other greats were ruling film industry at that time. Just listen to the melodious songs of that era and you will travel in a different world with the music of SD Burman, Shanker Jaikishen, Naushad, Madan Mohan, Hemant Kumar, Ravi, Salil Chaudhary, OP Nayyar to name a few. At that time competition was so fierce that even composer like Madan Madan giving number of hits in his filmi career and despite being nominated for awards could not bag any filmfare awards. Now tell me where is the competition at present. All the today’s so called music directors are just busy judging talent shows and making money rather tunes. And the one who is at the right place at the right time bagging awards.