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Allah Rakha Rahman (pronunciation ⓘ; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional
Allah Rakha Rahman (nato A. S. Dileep Kumar; Chennai, 6 gennaio 1967) è un musicista e compositore indiano di colonne sonore cinematografiche. Per il film The Millionaire (2008) ha vinto l'Oscar alla migliore colonna sonora, l'Oscar per la migliore canzone intitolata Jai Ho e il Golden Globe per la migliore colonna sonora originale.
1 mag 2024 · A.R. Rahman was born a Hindu, but he and his family converted to Islam in 1988, and at that time he changed his name from A.S. Dileep Kumar to Allah Rakha Rahman. A.R. Rahman (born January 6, 1966, Madras [now Chennai], India) is an Indian composer whose extensive body of work for film and stage earned him the nickname “the Mozart of Madras.”
- A.R. Rahman is known for his extensive body of work for film and stage, for his stylistic range as a composer, and for his integration of assorted...
- A.R. Rahman’s first film score was for the 1992 Tamil film Roja, directed by Mani Ratnam, and the soundtrack made the film a hit throughout India.
- A.R. Rahman, whose original name was A.S. Dileep Kumar, was the son of a Tamil film composer. He learned to play piano as a young child growing up...
- After earning a degree in Western classical music from Trinity College, Oxford, A.R. Rahman grew tired of playing music and began writing commercia...
- 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 ...
- Archana Nathan
1. The Music Legend — Allah Rakha Rahman. AR Rahman is one of the most celebrated music directors the world has ever seen. He has been nominated for the Academy Award (Oscar) five times and...
25 apr 2024 · A.R. Rahman is one of the most influential music composers of Indian cinema. He is also known as Allah Rakha Rahman.
Allah-Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer, songwriter, music composer and philanthropist. A. R. Rahman's works are famous for combining Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements.
