You need to unfold AR’s music
When I first heard the songs from the latest movie, ‘Jillunu oru Kadhal’, they looked ordinary; but the more I listen to them, I want to listen again! Unlike the earlier songs composed during his brilliant initial days in Tamil cinema, for the past few years, A R Rehman’s music doesn’t stir you up the first time you listen to it, but it gradually grows on you. It seems like you have to have spend some time to unfold the music (not necessary in the technical sense). Is it because, he himself has shifted towards fusion and has attempted to go global? Or is it because we expect the same kind of freshness which he brought with him in ‘Roja’- a question of growing expectations? Or it could not be either of these!
