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Jul 24, 2020 · It is said that AR Rahman has worked in nearly 500 films with Ilaiyaraaja before he turned composer with Roja in 1992. In his formative years, it is known that AR Rahman worked as a keyboardist in ...
Feb 4, 2019 · In fact, it is said that Rahman has worked in nearly 500 films with Ilaiyaraaja before he turned composer with Roja in 1992. Overwhelmed by the love he received from his fans, the Academy Award winner shared an unmissable throwback photo with his guru. Sharing the photo, he wrote, "33 years later with the Maestro, What a great feeling!
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Feb 16, 2021 · AR Rahman. It was reported that Ilaiyaraaja became furious with AR Rahman as he was chosen to score music for Mani Ratnam's Roja. ... 500 films with Ilaiyaraaja before he turned composer with Roja ...
- Sindhu Vijayakumar
May 12, 2019 · Before AR Rahman burst onto the scene with Roja in 1992, followed by several new composers, there was Ilaiyaraaja. He made his debut with Annakili in 1976, and transformed Tamil film music with ...
- Archana Nathan
- College Or Music?
- The Non-Film Years
- Before Mani Ratnam
- The Film That Changed His Fortunes
- Dileep Kumar Or AR Rahman?
- A Camel, Mischief and Music
- An Arranged Marriage
- ‘Urvasi’ and AR Rahman, The Singer
- ‘Highway’ and Imtiaz Ali
- Rahman, The Filmmaker
Born Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1967, in Chennai, Rahman is the second child and the only son of Rajagopala Kulashekhar Shekhar and Kasthuri (who later became Kareema Begum after the family converted to Islam). Shekhar, a musician, composer and arranger, was also a “very talented musical pioneer” and “an innovator” who came up the hard way and work...
Trilok writes that Rahman never intended to become a film music composer, but instead dreamed of creating his own albums, like musicians in the West. “I didn’t like the Indian movies produced in the eighties,” Rahman tells Trilok. “My sensibilities were different.” A career in films, however, was waiting to take off, especially after the extraordin...
Among the musicians for whom Rahman worked was MK Arjunan, the renowned music composer who was also a friend of Rahman’s father. Rahman also worked with other composers, such as Ilaiyaaraja, MS Vishwanathan, Raj-Koti and Ramesh Naidu. Ilaiyaraaja respected Rahman’s technical expertise, Trilok writes. “He was the number one keyboard player back then...
Rahman was introduced to Ratnam by Ratnam’s cousin, Sharada Krishnamoorthy, and her husband, Trilok Nair. A nervous Rahman played a bunch of tunes for Ratnam the first time the director came to his studio. What he didn’t expect was how Ratnam would react. The director thanked Rahman and left the studio. A baffled Rahman asked Nair, “Eh enna da? Onn...
The name Allah Rakha Rahman was selected by Kareema Begum after the family converted to Islam. Trilok writes that at the time, Rahman was going through a phase in his life when he “wanted to be born anew, to drop what he describes as the insecurity of his old life and wipe the slate clean”. The formal change of name and faith happened days before R...
Rahman takes “an active interest” in the lyrics of his songs and can be “quite mischievous” too, writes Trilok. He cites the examples of Ottagathai Kattiko from Shankar’s Gentleman (1993) which, despite being written by Vairamuthu, also had inputs from Rahman. Ottagam in Tamil means camel, which is a metaphor for virility, Trilok explains before ci...
There’s a short but candid chapter on Rahman’s marriage in Trilok’s book. He writes about the conversation that Rahman and his future wife Saira Banu had before their wedding. “Rahman told his wife-to-be in no uncertain terms that if they had a dinner, and a song came up, they would have to ditch the dinner,” Trilok writes. Saira, from a Kutchi fam...
The first time AR Rahman’s voice boomed through a film soundtrack was in Shankar’s Kadhalan (1994). The track was Urvasi, which Rahman was nervous about singing, writes Trilok. “He didn’t know for sure how good a singer he was and was worried that people he had made sing would make fun of him as someone who could not do the same himself,” he writes...
Among the many quirky anecdotes in the book is the one about how AR Rahman got on board Imtiaz Ali’s Highway (2014). One day, during a conversation on Skype, Rahman asked Ali about his follow-up to Rockstar (2011). Ali told Rahman that it is a very “small budget film” that does not have a lot of music. “You want me to do it?” Rahman asked him immed...
Why has AR Rahman decided to plunge into the business of movie making? “I get bored easily,” he tells those asking that question, Trilok says. Rahman is currently steering the production of two different projects: the virtual reality short film Le Musk and the feature-length Hindi musical 99 songs. Le Musk, which Rahman has directed, is a suspense ...
Allah Rakha Rahman [ 12 ] was born as Dileep Kumar Rajagopala in Madras, Tamil Nadu, on 6 January 1967. [ 13 ] His father, R. K. Shekhar from a Mudaliar [ 14 ][ 15 ] family, was a film-score composer and conductor for Tamil and Malayalam films. Rahman began studying piano at age four. [ 13 ]
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Aug 21, 2023 · Ratnam had replaced Ilaiyaraaja with Rahman as his go-to composer with Roja (1992). Dil Se was Rahman’s fifth collaboration with Ratnam. Dil Se turned 25 on Monday.
