" The World Renowned Music Tamilian A.R Rahman was born on 1967, January 6 to Music Composer R.K. Shekhar and Kasturi in Chennai.
That time, Dileep Kumar was the Hindi Actor who was reigning supreme and was a super Star at that time, and Shekhar kept this name to his beloved son. The speciality was that Actor Dileep Kumar's original name was Yusuf Khan. He got his name changed, when he entered the industry, and our Dileep Kumar changed his existing name to come into existence as Allah Rakka Rahman". ( RANI MAGAZINE ) -- regards, Vithur
