Shamitabh | Maestro | Amitabh | Dhanush | Balki | P. C. Sreeram

[JamesDap]

Just that he seems to be bewildered at the very thought that it was not he who told SJ how and what to sing. It may be a reasonable question to pose to a normal person but we can safely say he is not. It's not just IR, usually such workshop type discussions with genius artists don't work unless they are conversing with other artists of a certain wavelength. And then, how much appeal to the public at large would such a convo hold. I think it was probably VH1 that did a "making of" series for classic albums. Stevie Wonder didn't have much to say about Songs in the Key of Life whereas the more calculating and workman-like Donald Fagen and Walter Becker shared a lot more about Aja. IR doesn't sweat the mundane stuff and his answers may perhaps make his methods appear too facile to whet the appetite that the audience has for myth making. He said about Ammavai Azhaikaadha that P Vasu wanted a song similar to Janani Janani for the film and he got it. From the media's point of view, a phoney answer about IR recollecting his mom and shedding copious tears would work better but he doesn't come across as someone with the patience for that game.