Wonderful mix of questions and superb answers !!! Rahman has his way of giving the best answers..No doubt about that !! For example his answers on the remix of Jai Ho.. and also on his oscar achievement.
God bless and hoping to hear more from him. Regards, Jay --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Prakash Balaramkrishna <prakysn...@...> wrote: > > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1887759,00.html > > How do you think your career will change now that you've won two very > well-deserved Oscars? Rue Roy, LONDON > More Related > * A.R. Rahman, the Slumdog Millionaire Maestro > * Girl Talk > * Thatâs What I Call Funny > I have been getting a lot of offers from Hollywood. A lot of my aspirations > â" like I wanted to work with an orchestra â" are possible now. > Collaborations are possible with pop artists and icons and all that stuff. > Do you plan to go West and work outside Bollywood? Jay Bee, TORONTO > I think I partly want to do that, but I don't want to just desert this place > and go. It won't be fair on my musicality. I will probably balance out both. > What was the difference between making the music for Slumdog Millionaire and > the music for Indian films? Divyam Gupta, LIMA > Each director [has] their own kind of rapport with other artists. When I work > with Mani Ratnam, there's one kind of rapport. When I work with Ashutosh > Gowariker, it's different. So with [Slumdog Millionaire director] Danny > Boyle, automatically a different sense came in. He had his own taste of music > and I was very interested in knowing what he liked about my music. > Do you believe in a universal music? Kimberly Choi, SEATTLE > I do, because all of us are, in a way, getting multicultural in our ears. All > of us are listening to different kinds of music and the bottom line is most > of us love melodies, most of us love grooves. So there is a kind of > universality, and when you focus on it you can find it. > As a convert to Islam, do you view your career in a spiritual light?Zainab > Sheikh, NEW YORK CITY > I believe that when good vibes come from people, like prayers and love, it > changes your destiny and that's what I always felt about my life. [I've had] > a lot of goodwill from family and Sufi peers. Getting those two Oscars â" I > definitely feel that I have to thank all those people. > Some Islamic fundamentalists forbid music. What's your view? Syed Qadeer, > LAKE IN THE HILLS, ILL. > I have personally discovered that love and music cleanse your mind and heal > you and these are my explanations and reasons to follow music. I can't answer > the question of whether it's right or wrong, but I know that whatever I am > doing is being loved by people and I do get my prayers answered. > I recently heard the remix of "Jai Ho" featuring the Pussycat Dolls and was > surprised that you consented to have that done to such a beautiful song. What > motivated it? Mayank Keshaviah, LOS ANGELES > I didn't want [the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack] to die as a film > soundtrack. I wanted to extend it to a younger audience, too. We made sure > that we told [the Pussycat Dolls] that this was a song about destiny, about > love and all that stuff. [It's] about victory, so don't make it obscene. Make > it lovable. And I think they did a very good job ... It took almost eight > different tries to get it right. > Where do you see yourself fitting into the modern scheme of music?Grant > Wilder, HOUSTON > I love to embrace new technology and new ideas. But I think melody plays a > very important role in my sensibility in music. Melody and harmony â" that > never changes. All the classics are always classics. > What do you listen to on your MP3 player? Katie Hires, BETHEL, CONN. > What I listened to yesterday were the ghazal [a Sufi song form] of Mehdi > Hassan and then I listened to Tchaikovsky, and then I listened to an Irish > artist â" I don't know who it was. So it's like three weird things. I was > traveling from Bangalore to Chennai. > Is there any way you could beat your Oscar success? Hannah Pederson, PORT > ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA > Some people have been nominated 38 times and not won. Some composers 10 > times, 11 times. I have been really lucky to have been nominated [in three > categories] in the same year and then got two of those. It's really amazing. > To beat this record musically? I would love to but [it's more important] to > get the spirit back in writing music. >
