“Most
of Rahman’s movies in
the early stage of his career
were box office hits just because
of the fact that he was working
with two of the best directors,
Manirathnam and Shankar”,
says an assistant director to
a popular director. There is
a huge void of commercial hits
once you remove off the blockbusters
he had delivered with three
of his best ever combination
directors, Shankar, Manirathnam
and K.S.Ravikumar. With Shankar
he had produced five mega hits
and three superhits with each
of the other two. The rest of
his hits come from Rajiv Menon,
Kathir and S.J.Surya. |
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His
combination with Bharathiraja was
a disaster with only one hit movie
– and the rest of the three
proving to be a complete whitewash;
then again the music was exceptional.
A trade analyst feels that, “It’s
important for Rahman to start looking
beyond Mani and Shankar in Tamil.
There are lots of talented directors
coming up.”
One of the top Tamil producers points
out that, “Had Rahman combined
with any of the new breed of top directors
like Bala, Gowtham menon, Selvaraghavan,
Murugadoss and Cheran, his list of
box office superhits and audio blockbusters
would have been endless”. “Rahman
working with average directors is
a national wastage”, adds a
popular young hero. His exorbitant
pay packet and his hectic international
schedule also turn the directors away
from him. His pay packet out budgets
the entire budget of a Tamil movie.
In an effort to outdo these views,
he has agreed to work in Chakkarakatti
which debuts Bhagyaraj’s son
Shanthanu. |
