Saturday,27 June 2009
Music director M Jayachandran
Thiruvananthapuram,Jun27: Popular Malayalam music director M Jayachandran Saturday said it was doubtful whether reality shows on television channels were aimed at moulding good playback singers or just `performers.'
"There is abundance of talent on these shows.But there is no clarity whether these shows would help the participant repeat the performance in a studio," Jayachandran, who won the Kerala government's award for best music direction, said at a meet-the-press programme here.
Only a very few singers who emerged winners in these shows became good playback singers, he said. Jayachandran said he did not feel the existence of a `clique' or `lobby' in the music field.
"Listeners are the only lobby in the field," he said. Composers would survive in the field if they were multi-facted and singers if they were dedicated.
"A director chooses a music director if they find anything different in him." Jayachandran, also a good singer, had won the state government award for best singer last year.
To a question on copying tunes, he said there was nothing wrong in using an element based on the beat of the original of a great song.
Several song albums of late pop icon Michael Jackson, had influenced composers around the world. Even film-makers see his albums before visualising a song, he said.
On remixing old songs, now common in films, he said there should be a reason behind such an attempt and should have the consent of the original composer.
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