Blog: ChordStrike

ChordStrike appreciates good music writing as much as the next reader, which is why I recommend David Yearsley's "Sonic Fakery in Slumdog from the Mozart of Chennai." The Mozart in question is, of course, Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman . Yearsley begins: "A. R. Rahman's two-fisted Oscar haul a couple of weeks ago was richly deserved. Without his soundtrack, Slumdog Millionaire would have been largely unwatchable. It was the palliative of Rahman's score that allowed the movie's grim images of poverty and violence to be served [...]