Does fear of failure haunts A.R. Rahman

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Rahman, who shot to fame with his compositions for "Roja" in 1992, is known for his musical versatility. He has innovated with different instruments and sounds to create some of India's best known musical hits for more than a decade.

"It does scare me sometimes (but) not about staying on top - first place or second place," Rahman told Reuters.

"It is about what I'm delivering, how good the music is always, how precise I have to be while composing as I might be putting my reputation of 15 years at stake."

Rahman has several big budget projects lined up for release in 2008, including Ashutosh Gowariker's "Jodhaa Akbar", Subhash Ghai's "Yuvraaj", Rakeysh Mehra's "Dilli 6" and the Aamir Khan-starrer "Ghajini".

But he’s eagerly awaiting Tamil filmmaker Shankar’s science fiction venture “Robot”.

"Robot' is very futuristic and I am looking forward to composing for it," Rahman said. "I have never tried the genre before and it is an exciting venture."

Selecting the right project might be tough for some but for Rahman, instinct plays a key role.

"I often take quick decisions as sometimes I work with people whom I have worked with before and sometimes it's just out of pure instinct when I come across an exciting project."

From : Reuters INDIA

Music Review - Jodha Akbar

Film: Jodha Akbar
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Music: A.R.Rahman

Track list:

Azeem –O-Shaan-Shahenshah
In Lamhon Ke Daaman Mein
Jashn-E-Bahara
Khwaja Mere Khwaja
Mann Mohana
Jashn-E-Bahara Instrumental (Flute)
Khwaja Mere Khwaja (Oboe)

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We Can Make it Better - Relief for those affected by the Pakistani Earthquake and Tsunami

' We Can Make it Better ' by Donasian was released on Friday 11th November 2005 from HMV

Donasian was a charity project put together by, Internalmusic, Realtone Records, and Streetlife Productions. Donasian was a non-profit making organisation.

This single has been composesd and produced by 'Mukhtar Sahota', and the string orchestration by A.R.Rahman. (starting and ending string composition)

Album Credit :

The single is in 3 languages, English, Hindi and Punjabi, and features 15 Asian artists from different music genres from Eastern and Western continents. The Artists featured are:

Artists
A R Rahman	Shaan	Jaspinder Narula	Sukhwinder Singh
Hans Raj Hans	Am’nico	Djinn	Mistri
Channi (Alaap)	Dhami (Heera)	Sumeet	UK Apache
Shahin Badar	E=MC	Surinder Sandhu	Shahbaz Khan

The charities involved were 'Islamic Relief' and 'Save the Children India', for those affected by the Pakistani Earthquake and the Tsunami affected children. Donasian will not recoup any costs from this project. All artists have appeared on this project free of any costs.

Ghajini Remake in Hindi. Title yet to be coined

Ghajini Remake in Hindi soon. Expect to release on 2008 Diwali - Tuesday, October 8

After the stunningly hit film Taare Zameen Par, Aamir Khan’s next will be the remake of Tamil super-hit Ghajini. A R Murugadoss, director of the original version is helming the Hindi remake and the stunning beauty Asin will be essaying her part as well. Talented young actress Jiah Khan will be playing the other female lead. Music is by A R Rahman with lyrics by exceptional wordsmith Prasoon Joshi. This Diwali get ready for this movie.

Deepika Padukone will pair with Rajnikant - Robot

Ayngaran International and Eros International will jointly be producing the film - ROBOT. Rs 120 crore is the initial budget allocated for this film. Investment will exceed money ever spent on any big-budget film from Kollywood, Tollywood or Bollywood. Money should not be a constraint for the grandest film in India.

The film will be produced in three Indian languages Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. It is talked in media that Deeepika Padukone who made a superb debut with Shahrukh Khan in film Om Shanti Om may now be pairing with Rajnikant in Robot.

Shankar is also reported to have roped in science writer Sujatha to write the dialogue for Robot. Sujatha is, in fact, a 70-plus-year-old male, who has become a celebrity in his own right in Tamil Nadu through his youthful style of science fiction writing.

Interestingly Deepika who is 22 years old had paired with Shahrukh of 40 plus and will now be with the Rajnikant who is of 57 years! But for superstar Rajinikanth who has acted earlier opposite to Shreya in ‘Sivaji the Boss’ who was almost Deepika’s age.

As of now Deepika is filming for Yash Raj Film''s Chandni Chowk to China, which is expected to hit the floors in February. Robot’s budget may exceed 100 crore probably may be the most expensive in Indian film history.

Rahman composes music for Puli - Telugu

AR Rahman has given music to lot of Tamil movies which have been dubbed into Telugu and gone on to become good hits. A.R Rahman will be composing music for Pawan Kalyan starrer Puli movie. This movie is being directed by our very own S.J Suryah.

He has promised to compose and finish the songs by 2009. Pawan Kalyan will start with this S.J Suryah movie after he completes Jalsa and an home production in which he is acting as a hero too. S.J Suryah also has a couple of movies to finish including Vil in which he acts as a hero.

It is rumoured that a whopping amount was paid to Rahman to compose the music for this film. It is also said that the producer of Puli is willing to go upto Rs. 35 crore as far the films total budget is concerned.

Rajnikanth on Shankar’s mega-budget film - Robot

Rajnikant will play the lead role in famous director Shankar’s mega-budget film ‘Robot.’ The budget of new film is said to be around Rs 100 crore.

Famous music director A. R. Rehman will create music for the film.

Eros multimedia and Ayngaran International would jointly produce the film. The film will use lot of graphics and new techniques. This is the reason the film has been terms as a hi-tech film. It would be made using state-of-the-art technology. The rest of the cast for the movie hasn’t been finalized yet.

“We are trying for someone like Deepika Padukone or Priyanka Chopra to co-star with Rajni. Nothing is official as yet. The film is expected to have a lot of graphics and new techniques. Most of the film would be shot abroad,” the source added.

The film will be a fire combination of Rajnikanth and A. R. Rahman with Shankar. It will be in released in three languages Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.

Jet Airways presents 'The Lord of Music'

A.R.Rahman interview from Jet Airways in their in-flight magazine [ Jetwings ] January 2008 edition, uploaded in the flickr for all rahmaniacz.




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