Saw the film .
Actually this song is good and has inmpressed everyone from online
discusiion boards,, .reminds me of La bamba (nescafe advert in the
80s) but having the appeal of Los del Río Macarena song of the mid
90s; also considering the indian song also features a train just
like the nescafe advert. think he also made some chinese song too.
good song too
..the orginal maker of the song is a famous bollywood composer ,
highest selling music artiste in the world according to
wikipedia
who also made a recent film i saw , a socio-documentary -" Swades",
by checking the dvd print credits..i personally feel his music is
uplifting, new and of high quality. brand of its own unique in the
world.. have listen to tons of music , trust me nobody had done it
like this before.
...The background of score of Swades will make you almost cry. The
musical show lord of the rings playing in theatres now from the
same composer. u can check out the Cd onc eit is released.
becos, his music is too novel for a normal listener arr he 's
called may sound strange to some ears at first but slowly addicting
stuff. listen to it many times and u will catch it f ull essence-
Elton john combined with the grandness of John Williams
Blanchard does right for Lee's
'Man' score
By Sheigh Crabtree
The opening and closing musical tracks of Spike Lee's "Inside Man"
immediately attracted the attention of film critics and moviegoers
alike because Lee chose an unexpected piece of Bollywood music as a
curtain-raiser for his urban thriller.
Online discussion boards, particularly iTunes' "Inside Man"
soundtrack homepage, were swamped with demands for the single
"Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint."
Longtime Lee composer Terence Blanchard says the song, which
originally was featured in the 1998 Bollywood hit "Dil Se," is in
perfect keeping with the director's distinct musical choices.
"To me it goes right back to when Spike did 'Do the Right Thing'
and he used (Public Enemy's) 'Fight the Power'," Blanchard says.
"He is a serious music lover and he knew ("Chaiyya Chaiyya") would
create a unique viewing experience; it sends you off in an
unexpected direction thinking in an expanded tonal palette for the
picture."
Blanchard lightly rearranged composer AR Rahman's original track
for the film by beefing up the song's orchestration with some
strings, horns, brass and timpani, and he also tried to extend the
musical structure of the song without being redundant.
Then the composer and the director brought in Panjabi MC to add
hip-hop lyrics that play on the song's original themes of cultural
divides.
The instrumentation also connects with Blanchard's jazzy original
score for the film that the song bookends. And though Lee generally
gives Blanchard a lot of room to create musical ideas around his
images, the way they reached the song choice for "Inside Man" was
slightly unusual even by the standards of their long-running
relationship. "We hadn't had any musical conversations about the
movie until he started to cut the picture together," Blanchard
says. "Whereas on (the Golden Globe nominated score for) '25th
Hour,' Spike told me to get prepared for wall-to-wall music."
When Blanchard saw a rough cut, the first thing that struck him was
its distinct look and Denzel Washington and Clive Owen's
performances.
"I said, I know the music has to have an aggressive pulse to it
given those characters," Blanchard says. "But it's always
interesting working with Spike -- he loves melody."
Of the previous films on which they have worked, Lee always has
asked Blanchard for a CD of distinct themes, which the director
then assigns to different characters. The same was true but with a
twist on "Inside Man."
"Spike picked one of the prettiest themes and gave it to Dalton
(Owen's character) who's supposed to be bad guy!" Blanchard laughs.
"I said, You sure you want to do that? He always tries to go for
some unique and different choices and by doing that he creates a
challenging narrative that also helps tell the story."
Blanchard wrote the score over four weeks and recorded it with more
than 60 orchestra members for four days at Todd-AO in Los
Angeles.
But just days before he was set to record the score, Hurricane
Katrina wiped out Blanchard's childhood home in New Orleans. He was
unable to find his mother for two weeks.
The composer's story of personal loss will be documented in Lee's
upcoming documentary "When the Levees Broke."
"Trust me, it's hard for people to fathom the vastness of the
tragedy," Blanchard says. "We have friends who survived, but lost
everything and died from broken hearts. Working on the 'Inside Man'
score was a Godsend for me. When you hear the Dalton themes in the
beginning, it's also what was going on with Katrina in my mind.
Music was a great outlet during that period."
