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Varma says Rahman expands the horizons for the filmmaker and recalls how using his voice for Aamir Khan in ‘Mangta hai kya’ was “pathbreaking”. On Rahman singing ‘Ye jo des hai tera’, Gowarikar says, there’s a soulful quality to his voice that adds another dimension to the songs he renders. But never in my imagination did I think that he would use the shehnai in this manner - he used it as a refrain and created such an emotional track out of it.” “The idea was to show how Mohan Bhargav (the main character played by Shah Rukh Khan) is once again wedded to the country, and a marriage is incomplete without the shehnai. Swades, where Rahman used shehnai to a mesmerising effect in the climax. “But in his mind, he wants to create a new kind of sound may be a new deviation within the melodic track, and that’s unusual.”Ī.R. If for some reason the director didn’t like the tune, he would make another tune, but never defend or explain it, which is fascinating.”uAshutosh Gowarikar feels that Rahman, at heart, is very commercial in his likes and dislikes. Rangeela, recalls that Rahman didn’t have “creative arrogance.” “He would never ever defend something he made. Ram Gopal Varma, who introduced Rahman to Hindi films with That he has mastery over all of it was very new to us.” But in a Rahman number, they are all tightly knit together. Looking back, Shekhar Kapur, who collaborated with Rahman onĮlizabeth, says that traditionally, in Indian songs, you would say “here are the lyrics, here is the tune, and here is the orchestration to it. “Then I discovered Naushad, Madan Mohan, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, S.D. Coming from the South, he says his knowledge was limited to a few soundtracks.

but after his advice, I started learning Hindi, reading couplets and poems in Urdu.” It introduced him to the history of Hindi film music. “Earlier, I used to think that my music would survive anywhere. Taal, arguably the biggest hit in Rahman’s Hindi film career. While many of his collaborators believe that Rahman’s compositions have so much emotion that they don’t require lyrics to embellish them, Rahman himself says he imbibed the importance of language from Subhash Ghai who would say, “If you don’t learn the language, you cannot compose.” The two collaborated on Rahman with Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart Music collaborations “Nobody understood the words, but they understood the quality of the sound.” Today, he says, Rahman means as much to Sony as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen or Celine Dion.Ī.R. Reflecting on the moment when Rahman became a global star, Shridhar Subramaniam, president, Corporate Strategy and Market Development, Asia and Middle East, at Sony Music Entertainment says, “When they presented ‘Vande Mataram’ at the Global Sony Music Conference in Manila, the fear was if it would work in an audience that’s not Indian. There are other off-beat moments, like the four-year-old Mizo girl singing ‘Vande Mataram’ and a Mizo group singing a choir version of ‘Maa Tujhe Salam’.

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The new series showcases artistes from the U.S., the U.K., the Czech Republic, Croatia, Turkey, U.A.E. Jai Ho, that had chronicled the rise of Rahman as a global icon. There are students from the Berklee College of Music and Stanford University,” says Aggarwal, who is remembered for his documentary

We have school students in Japan, who don’t speak Hindi or English, recreating the music of his Tamil films. “I wanted to convey that Rahman’s music transcends boundaries. Rahman Music Sheets on his YouTube channel O2india, which not only profiles Rahman through in-depth interviews with his collaborators but also brings together young artistes from across the globe to recreate his music. Everybody seems to have a favourite Rahman song but the reticent composer remains an enigma.Ĭelebrating three decades of his journey, National Film Award-winning director Umesh Aggarwal launched on August 26, a year-long series Rahman’s music, but we still don’t know how the creations of a shy Tamil boy found a devoted audience across the world. One of the chords that integrates India is A.R.

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