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Arjun
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With the release of Boys, the music whiz kid speaks about the controversies and clears the gossip about the film. He reveals his future moves in an exclusive interview:
The sales figures of Boys are not high as before says the audio industry … some say you lost interest in scoring music for Tamil films.
It’s all in the game. Sometime back cricket was not a favourite. But again it’s come back. Music market is also like that. In 1996 it was very low. Between 1998-2000 it went up to 400%, which I never expected. Then again it came down. It has got to do with the world situation and the trauma going around. Technology advancement - Internet downloading and also films failing to create an impact are the reasons. It doesn’t happen with one film. In 1999-2000 there were too many films released like a chain and got locked. Then I was away doing ‘Bombay Dreams’. Since I was away they assumed that that I was no more interested in Tamil and things like that. The reason is that the three filmmakers with whom I am passionate about scoring music were not there to fall back. Shankar got bogged down with Nayak in Hindi and lost 2 yrs here, Rajeev Menon was not making any film and Mani’s film Kannathil Mutthamittal was the only film that happened. It got its due by bagging the National Award. The others (directors) are ok. Some are good and some bad.
Was it the clash with Shankar that the Boys got delayed?
(Laughs) Clash with Shankar? It’s true the project got delayed. I had gone to Kazakhstan to be the jury of the ‘International Film Festival’. I could not turn down the invitation. It could have delayed the project for a week
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