This Article is From Oct 13, 2016

AR Rahman, Javed Akhtar Hail Bob Dylan's Nobel Win As 'Proud Moment' In Music

AR Rahman, Javed Akhtar Hail Bob Dylan's Nobel Win As 'Proud Moment' In Music

Image Courtesy: AFP (left); AR Rahman (right)

Highlights

  • Bob Dylan is the recipient for the Nobel Prize in Literature
  • His popular songs include Blowin' In The Wind and Mr Tambourine Man
  • He has been a musician for about five decades
Mumbai: The Indian music fraternity including sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and composer AR Rahman today hailed the announcement of American music legend Bob Dylan bagging the Nobel Literature Prize, calling it a "proud moment" for all musicians.

The surprise announcement by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm was also welcomed as a "marvelous and amazing decision" with noted lyricist Javed Akhtar saying it proves that music can also be a part of literature.

75-year-old Mr. Dylan, whose most popular songs include Blowin' in the Wind, Mr Tambourine Man, Like a Rolling Stone and A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, was cited "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

Amjad saab said he is happy that a musician has received the honour and called Mr. Dylan a "deserving candidate" for the Nobel Prize.

"He has given so much happiness and good music to people. This is the beauty of music that as a musician of any country we are connected with each other because we work with the same seven notes."

Rahman, in a Facebook post, thanked Dylan for influencing him with the songs and transporting people to an alternate world.
 
 
 


"#ARRahman, #VishweshKrishnamoorthy & the team of 99 Songs, celebrate the Nobel prize award for #BobDylan and want to thank him for influencing three generations with his songs, transporting people from their crazy lives to an alternate world."

Javed Akhtar said he was very excited to learn the news.

"I am very excited. As a matter of fact it is so wonderful to know that people are not rejecting or accepting things by genre but by quality. We tend to be puritan about certain things. If it is a song it is not taken as literature. Ghazals and nasam are considered literature. Bob is a great guy. He is a man who created a moment," Javed saab said.

Veteran singer Usha Uthup said she was "very excited" and the excitement is not going to die down.

"It is such an exciting moment. This is an amazing decision for people who think that song is part of a literation. This is a marvelous decision. I am elated."

Singer Adnan Sami, composer-singer Vishal Dadlani and Shilpa Rao took to Twitter to share how Mr. Dylan's works helped shape their music.
 
 
 

Many other notable names from the entertainment world also tweeted for Mr. Dylan's honour.
 
 
 
 
 


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