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A R Rahman among top 10 Asian pay earners in the UK

PTI [ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2002 03:24:10 AM ]


LONDON: Indian music director and composer A R Rahman is
among the top ten Asians who figure in this year's Sunday
Times Pay List of the United Kingdom, with an annual income
of two million pounds.


Famous for his scores in south Indian and Bollywood movies,
the 36-year-old Rahman hit the international circuit after
Andrew Lloyd Webber chose him for his latest musical Bombay
Dreams which has become a hit and money spinner.


Rahman, who has scored for 60 films is now paid one million
pounds per movie, has sold over 100 million albums. A
graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, he qualifies for the
Pay List because he has lived in London for most of the last
two years, the newspaper said.


The top ten Asians in the list are
Gurchait Chima (9.5 mn pounds), business;
Gurnaik Chima (9.5 mn pounds), business;
Naguib Kheraj (5.0 mn pounds), finance;
Manish Chande (4.11 mn pounds), business;
Raj Kumar (4.0 mn pounds), business;
Rana Talwar (3.2 mn pounds), benefits;
Tom Singh (2.87 mn pounds), business,
Ranjit Boparan (2.76 mn pounds), business;
Baljinder Boparan (2.5 mn pounds), business and
A R Rahman (2.0 mn pounds), music.