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In that year, he had at least 125 hit songs. This does not include discussions with directors to understand the script and story line. On an average of 3 days for per film BGM, you are already stacking another 150 days. At his peak, he delivered music for about 51 films in a year – that’s about 250 songs or at the rate of 2 songs a day, work of 125 days. No Indian musician has delivered so much quality despite being so prolific.
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He does not even hum his tune, or play it on a keyboard or piano – just writes his music! This is music by design, not trial and error.
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I will cover some of his experiments in detail later with examples. However, Raja’s experiments are so varied, that no one qualifies to be even a distant second. He experiments with musical ideas from several forms of music all the time. I will discuss this later in greater detail with examples. While most Indian film composers consider an interlude as ‘filler’, he has developed it into a super fine art. He is the best interlude composer that I have ever heard in Indian cinema. He is the fastest background music composer in the world. Next time when you watch a Bollywood movie, pay attention to the credits.
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Unlike Bollywood, where one person does melody composition, another does the arrangement, the third one does the orchestration (conducting). He is the first true and complete Indian music composer – he does melody composition (all MDs do that), he harmonizes the melody, arranges the instruments, orchestrates and finally mixes and records as well. No other Indian music composer has such a solid understanding of Music theory and especially Western Classical Music (WCM) theory. What is that Raja has done that no other Indian musician has, to qualify for being called a genius? Here are top 10 reasons.