Vithur, I guess Siraj asked about Maniratnam contacting AR and the first film didn't work out and later they worked together for Roja...
Right Siraj? Bergin Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Vithur <vith...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:46:53 To: <arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [arr] "I would go with my mother to Durgahs" - ARR I have heard this before.... Somebody was telling this in one of the Rahmania Shows, I guess On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Siraj K <cutesi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guyz, > > Anybody heard of this news? It's new to me. > > ".....The 24 year old lad played out a tune that he had been pushed into > composing by his school friend G.Bharat alias Bala when they both had been > greatly disturbed by the socio-political tensions in South India over the > Cauvery river waters issue. Listening to the tune that was played, Mani > was hooked instantly. Without a second thought he signed on the composer to > score the music for his next film. That film did not work out but Mani > signed him on for a new film which was to be produced by the veteran Tamil > director K.Balachander for his respected 'Kavithalayaa' banner. That film > was 'Roja'. That tune would become the song "Tamizha Tamizha" in 'Roja'. > ...." > -Siraj > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Vithur <vith...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Rahman is a National Treasure, bigger than Slumdog Millionaire [image: >> PDF]<http://www.khabrein.info/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=19512> >> [image: >> Print]<http://www.khabrein.info/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19512&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=70> >> [image: >> E-mail]<http://www.khabrein.info/index2.php?option=com_content&task=emailform&id=19512&itemid=70> >> Page 1 of 3 >> >> *Music maestro AR Rahman is a National Treasure. He is certainly bigger >> than Slumdog Millionaire. >> * >> >> New Delhi, Jan 23, 2009: By bagging 3 Oscar nomination AR rahman has made >> India proud. Slumdog Millionaire has swept Oscar nominations and Indian >> maestro AR Rahman has got 3 Oscar nominations. >> >> >> >> This is the first for any Indian and everyone is sure that Allah Rakkha >> Rahman would certain be rewarded by an Oscar. >> >> Allah Rakka Rahman or AR Rahman is on his way to an Oscar. He has done the >> whole nation of billion plus people proud by bagging the first ever Golden >> Globe Award by any Indian. >> >> The occasion was all the more delightful for India as there was Shah Rukh >> Khan who was asked to give away one of the Golden Globe prizes. This was >> also the first for any Indian. >> >> Both are big names of Indian cinema. Shah Rukh Khan is known as King Khan >> in India's Bollywood, the film industry that produces the largest number of >> films in a calendar year. He is indisputably the No.1 actor in Bollywood. >> >> AR Rahman is the best film composer in India. He is the reigning music >> king of Indian film industry for the last more than two decades. Besides he >> has composed music for almost all leading vernacular film industries >> including Telgu and Tamil that are known for big budget films. >> >> Rahman has won all the known awards for his music. He is the 1995 >> recipient of the Mauritius National Award and the Malaysian Award for >> contributions to music. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for >> his first West-End production. A four time National Film Award winner and >> conferred the Padma Shri from the Government of India, Rahman has received >> six awards for Best Music at the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and eleven >> awards for his scores at the Filmfare and Filmfare Awards South each. In >> 2006, he received an honorary award from Stanford University for >> contributions to global music. A 2008 Critics Choice Awards winner for Best >> Composer, Rahman became the first Indian national to win a Golden Globe, >> winning for Slumdog Millionaire in the category of Best Original Score >> AR Rahman was born actually as Dileep Kumar on the 6th of January in the >> year 1966 in Chennai. His father was a known musician but dies the day when >> the first film he had composed hit the theatres. AR was only 11 years at >> that time. >> >> His early days were one of struggle and hardships. At the age of 11, his >> father passed away following a mysterious illness with rumours abounding >> that he was the victim of black magic practised by his rivals. Unfortunately >> R. K. Shekhar passed away the very same day his first film as composer was >> released. It was at this time that Rahman's belief in God first took a >> beating. Much of his time was filled with hospital visits, pain and >> anxieties. It is an issue that Rahman outrightly refuses to discuss even >> today. After his father's death the pressure of supporting his family fell >> on the young Dileep. At first the family subsisted by lending out his >> father's musical instruments. >> >> It was his mother who encouraged the young Dileep Kumar to follow in his >> father's footsteps and fully supported him in his vocation. But all this had >> an adverse effect on his formal education. Infrequent attendance and an >> unaccommodative management forced him to shift schools from the prestigious >> Padma Seshadri Bal Bhavan to the Madras Christian College and finally he >> dropped out of school altogether when he was doing his 11th grade. >> >> Later he was able to get a full scholarship to the famed Trinity College >> of Music at Oxford University from where he obtained a degree in Western >> Classical Music. He came back with a dream to bring an international and >> contemporary world perspective to Indian music. >> >> Dileep converted to Islam from Hinduism in 1989 merely years before his >> first Bollywood blockbuster Roja was released. He converted to Islam along >> with his family after a personal experience with a Sufi Pir. >> >> When asked what prompted him to convert to Islam, he says "I remember my >> father suffering. He was taken to eight to nine hospitals, including the CMC >> hospital in Vellore and the Vijaya hospital in Madras. I saw him suffering >> physical pain... I remember the Christian priests who would read from the >> Bible beside his hospital bed... I remember the pujas and the yagnas >> performed by the pundits... by the time, the Muslim pirs came , it was too >> late. He had already left us. After my father passed away, for some years >> when I was a teenager I believed there was no God. But there was a feeling >> of restlessness within me. I realised that there can be no life without a >> force governing us... without one God. And I found what I was looking for in >> Islam. I would go with my mother to durgahs. And pirsaab Karim Mullashah >> Qadri would advise us. When we shifted to this house, we resolved to stick >> to the faith."Rahman became a very religious and devout Muslim. After this >> period his career graph began to take the upward path. More and more >> advertising offers came his way. >> >> In Bollywood he came through famous Tamil and Bollywood producer Mani >> Ratnam. He was introduced to Mani Ratnam by one of Ratnam's cousins. He was >> interested to learn about his music and one day dropped at AR's studio. >> >> The 24 year old lad played out a tune that he had been pushed into >> composing by his school friend G.Bharat alias Bala when they both had been >> greatly disturbed by the socio-political tensions in South India over the >> Cauvery river waters issue. Listening to the tune that was played, Mani was >> hooked instantly. Without a second thought he signed on the composer to >> score the music for his next film. That film did not work out but Mani >> signed him on for a new film which was to be produced by the veteran Tamil >> director K.Balachander for his respected 'Kavithalayaa' banner. That film >> was 'Roja'. That tune would become the song "Tamizha Tamizha" in 'Roja'. The >> music of the film would be a phenomenal success that would revolutionise >> modern day Indian film music. The name of the 25-year old composer was A. R. >> Rahman. And the rest, as they say, is history. >> >> http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19512&Itemid=70&limit=1&limitstart=2 >> >> -- >> regards, >> Vithur >> >> >> >> > > -- regards, Vithur
