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thalaivar's Vande Mataram picturisation / costume resemble MJ's earth song a lot.........also, as someone put in another thread, ARR's landmark composition chandralekha(thiruda thiruda) was inspired from MJ's dangerous......ofcourse, thalaivar used references of beethoven's 9th symphony to make it sound very different.....

looking back, i think without MJ and his influence, ARRahman could have, could have been a failure........he sort of prepared india for rahman......atleast for me, the craving for 16 tracks and full blown synthesiser music was tapped on by MJ.......and when rahman provided me exactly that, i just sank to become a slave......i remember my uncle raving abt MJ's recording style of doing the recording for singers,instruements, bits and pieces one by one used to awe me......rahman brought exactly the same trend here as well....As CR pointed out, MJ paattula lyrics ennannu theriyamale paattu rasippom.......isnt rahman doing the same? infact, the very concept of "enjoy the music irrespective of lyrics" must be ingrained in most MJ's Indian fans including rahman.......