HYDERABAD: Bollywood director-screenwriter-producer Ram Gopal Varma, who got popular through his extremely hard hitting films, recently lashed out at the current crop of music directors, including AR Rahman.
RGV has done movies involving psychological thrillers, underworld gang conflict, politician-criminal nexus and even musicals, exploded against musicians accusing them of burying the music in the southern part of India.
According to a buzz, the maverick movie-maker was responding to future actor Rana’s remark about Ilayaraja’s expressive music in the film ‘Chinarayudu’. According to a leading website, Ram Gopal Varma said that people like AR Rahman, Mani Sharma, Keeravani, and Devi Sri Prasad had collectively killed music in the films.
Ironically, it was RGV who had introduced Rahman to Bollywood and gave him a scope to score music for the superhit ‘Rangeela’. He also added that with the exception of Ilayaraja, all these music directors had put stress on sound and not music.