![]() ![]() ![]() To top it all off, the film managed to tackle a hot topic, be melodramatic and patriotic, while also at its core being a romance. While Arvind Swamy was an unknown to Hindi audiences, the actress Madhoo had starred on one Hindi film, Phool Aur Kaante, which had been quite the hit. And Roja was a film precisely about this issue. While its picturesque locales had been a popular filming location in past decades, the growing violence and terrorist activity had all but put a stop to that. It was set in Kashmir, which by that time was already a powder-keg of troubles. ![]() The song is a great example of how and why Roja created an impact at the time. However, it all really started with Roja, and Yeh haseen wadiyan remains one of the memorable tracks from the film that’s still played often after nearly two decades. It also explains the popularity of the songs of Thiruda Thiruda at the time the people wanted to hear more, even if it was in a different language. The film had been released in the original Tamil two years earlier and was Rahman’s first outing as music director, but the Hindi songs that came out of the later release sealed his place in minds of a much larger audience. He only showed up on the average film-fan’s radar with the release of the Hindi dub of Roja and its music in 1994. Rahman was in the mid-1990s, his transition from Tamil films to mainstream Hindi cinema was also a gradual one from the audience’s perspective. As much of a startling change to the landscape of Hindi film music as A.R. ![]()
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