With his Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA wins
for Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman has become an international celebrity:
they’re calling him ‘the Mozart of the East’. In India, however, Rahman has been an
iconic superstar for seventeen long years, ever since his first film Roja. Over
the past two decades, he has produced unforgettable music for movies like
Kadhalan, Bombay, Rangeela, Dil Se, Taal, Alaipayuthey, Zubeidaa, Lagaan, Rang
De Basanti and Jodhaa Akbar, to name only a few, in addition to the stage
musical Bombay Dreams and his acclaimed non-film album Vande Mataram.
His name is legend, but what is A.R. Rahman
all about? Very few can claim to know the man behind the music. Rahman shies
away from the public eye. He is fiercely protective of his privacy, and prefers
to be known only through his music.
