Is Dil Bechara such a great movie that A R Rahman conducts a special tribute programme ? After this digital show by Rahman, will he be thrown out by Bollywood biggies ? Lets wait for the answers. The musical tribute by A R Rahman to Dil Bechara team and to the Late Sushanth Singh Rajput has pushed the pedal on the movement that is growing against the nepotism in Bollywood. The film which did not have a release got the momentum when Rahman , after the suicide of the actor said that the movie should get a theater release. Some reports on the Vblogger channels in the name of reporting about the film teaser have torn into it. . Sushanth is shown wearing the same T shirt in all the shots and so he is in the same garb throughout ?. The hero who has a foot ailment challenges the crowd for a fight with one leg. He says in the film that one should decide the way we live as our birth and death are not in our hands but in real life he decides otherwise. There is nothing about Rahman’s score.
Now why was the film not taken up for theater release? Sushanth had a massive flop film previous to it and the debut director (previously a casting director) is directing this English movie remake. In the English film, the hero dies and heroine lives and the audience is not going to lose sleep as Sushanth is no Rajesh Khanna. Now Sushanth in real life commits suicide and leaves behind no note. He even hosted a party at his house on the eve of his suicide. He had no debts. He had heard a few scripts and was to start work after the lockdown was over. Only thing was Dil Bechara completed a year back had no takers.
After the suicide, Sushanth stature rose to be a legend of sorts. Curiosity for film garnered huge support in the social media. It was left to Disney- Hotstar OTT to announce that they were premiering the film. Usually, a film that attracts lot of public attention should have got buyers in at least the A list centers and mini screens in multiplexes. The nepotism charge came up as Sushanth had spoken about it at the IIFA awards. Kangana Raut took the lead and then came charges of Salman Khan having blacklisted him over a drunken blabbering by Sushanth .
Now word nepotism became the buzz word. Right from Arnab Goswami onward kept spinning this word. As expected, Sonu Nigam the singer sparked off a debate saying certain label (read T series) keeps playing nepotism game and said that actor’s decided who should sing for them and the music company even after recording had changed the music director. The music label shot a theme song without even the director’s knowledge and made it the face of the film. Many said that there was nothing like that in music world. Rahman without getting into the nepotism battle kick started a call for a release of the film.
It is known in music circles that Rahman has a very clear agreement about his creative freedom and exploitation of his work. No music label can tinker with it and Rahman has the last word. The reason is that ARR has a line of producers in the South lined up. After the Grammy and Oscar, the International music album market has widened and the money is more than what a Hindi film music label can pay. Sony Music backed Tribute to Dil Bechara team was aired on YouTube. It saw Rahman joined by children Raheema Rahman, AR Ameen along with Hiral Viradia who recorded wearing face shield. While the singers include Sunidhi Chauhan, Hriday Gattani, Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Arijit Singh, Shashaa Tirupati and Jonita Gandhi.
A split in a cartel ruling Tamil film music world opened the door to Rahman with Roja. Even recently he discovered Sid Sriram by just hearing out the audio clip sent in the mail and that too with no Godfather to put in a word. I remember Chetan Bhagat writing about nepotism after his books was made into movies. He asked Rahman about it and the reply was that Bollywood was like a big pond filled with crocs and you have to stand at the banks and take your bath without getting eaten by crocs.( This is what I gathered from what ARR said)
Now till now I have not read any review of this English movie in Indian mainstream press. The Fault in our Stars was released in 2014. So the comparison is bound to start on release. Mostly the attitude would be `Why tear the film and get badmouthed by all the Vloggers ? There is a scene in Broken Poet ( Elliot Murphy) in which a mention of a meeting of music label companies take place and one says that only if Jim Morrison died , would his music be hot cakes as he would become a legend.
Is Dil Bechara such a great movie that A R Rahman conducts a special tribute programme ? After this digital show by Rahman, will he be thrown out by Bollywood biggies ? Lets wait for the answers. The musical tribute by A R Rahman to Dil Bechara team and to the Late Sushanth Singh Rajput has pushed the pedal on the movement that is growing against the nepotism in Bollywood. The film which did not have a release got the momentum when Rahman , after the suicide of the actor said that the movie should get a theater release. Some reports on the Vblogger channels in the name of reporting about the film teaser have torn into it. . Sushanth is shown wearing the same T shirt in all the shots and so he is in the same garb throughout ?. The hero who has a foot ailment challenges the crowd for a fight with one leg. He says in the film that one should decide the way we live as our birth and death are not in our hands but in real life he decides otherwise. There is nothing about Rahman’s score.
Now why was the film not taken up for theater release? Sushanth had a massive flop film previous to it and the debut director (previously a casting director) is directing this English movie remake. In the English film, the hero dies and heroine lives and the audience is not going to lose sleep as Sushanth is no Rajesh Khanna. Now Sushanth in real life commits suicide and leaves behind no note. He even hosted a party at his house on the eve of his suicide. He had no debts. He had heard a few scripts and was to start work after the lockdown was over. Only thing was Dil Bechara completed a year back had no takers.
After the suicide, Sushanth stature rose to be a legend of sorts. Curiosity for film garnered huge support in the social media. It was left to Disney- Hotstar OTT to announce that they were premiering the film. Usually, a film that attracts lot of public attention should have got buyers in at least the A list centers and mini screens in multiplexes. The nepotism charge came up as Sushanth had spoken about it at the IIFA awards. Kangana Raut took the lead and then came charges of Salman Khan having blacklisted him over a drunken blabbering by Sushanth .
Now word nepotism became the buzz word. Right from Arnab Goswami onward kept spinning this word. As expected, Sonu Nigam the singer sparked off a debate saying certain label (read T series) keeps playing nepotism game and said that actor’s decided who should sing for them and the music company even after recording had changed the music director. The music label shot a theme song without even the director’s knowledge and made it the face of the film. Many said that there was nothing like that in music world. Rahman without getting into the nepotism battle kick started a call for a release of the film.
It is known in music circles that Rahman has a very clear agreement about his creative freedom and exploitation of his work. No music label can tinker with it and Rahman has the last word. The reason is that ARR has a line of producers in the South lined up. After the Grammy and Oscar, the International music album market has widened and the money is more than what a Hindi film music label can pay. Sony Music backed Tribute to Dil Bechara team was aired on YouTube. It saw Rahman joined by children Raheema Rahman, AR Ameen along with Hiral Viradia who recorded wearing face shield. While the singers include Sunidhi Chauhan, Hriday Gattani, Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Arijit Singh, Shashaa Tirupati and Jonita Gandhi.
A split in a cartel ruling Tamil film music world opened the door to Rahman with Roja. Even recently he discovered Sid Sriram by just hearing out the audio clip sent in the mail and that too with no Godfather to put in a word. I remember Chetan Bhagat writing about nepotism after his books was made into movies. He asked Rahman about it and the reply was that Bollywood was like a big pond filled with crocs and you have to stand at the banks and take your bath without getting eaten by crocs.( This is what I gathered from what ARR said)
Now till now I have not read any review of this English movie in Indian mainstream press. The Fault in our Stars was released in 2014. So the comparison is bound to start on release. Mostly the attitude would be `Why tear the film and get badmouthed by all the Vloggers ? There is a scene in Broken Poet ( Elliot Murphy) in which a mention of a meeting of music label companies take place and one says that only if Jim Morrison died , would his music be hot cakes as he would become a legend.
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