Oscar Thamizhan 'Isaipuyal' AR Rahman News/Updates

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Rajini’s Lingaa launched

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/e...w/34523007.cms

dear moderator saab,pls open the thread for lingga music..tq

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AR Rahman Interacts With Students at NUS Singapore

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Is AR Rahman a magician or our Mozart?



Chennai: When he stood on the grand Oscar Awards stage with the two golden statues in his hand, Indian film music reached new heights on the global stage. It’s almost two decades since the Mozart of Madras came onto the scene of Tamil cinema with Mani Ratnam’s Roja. This magician, who has mesmerised the people in India through his compositions, has now extended his spell to the global audience. A. R Rahman’s music is heard everywhere — from a small village in India to the poshest performance venues abroad.

His fan following rose globally after Slumdog Millionaire and now he is back for more, with Disney’s Million Dollar Arm. In this tete-a-tete with DC, Isaipuyal A. R Rahman talks about his latest Hollywood film, his experience of working with international artists, about his upcoming Tamil project, Kaaviya Thalaivan, the Superstar’s Kochadaiiyaan, and more.

Million Dollar Arm, directed by Craig Gillespie, is a biographical sports drama, based on the true story of two Indian baseball pitchers, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein, after winning a reality show competition. “Disney approached me for this project, and I was pretty excited about it,” says the unassuming musician.

“It was a great experience to work in this film, as even the team I worked with was entirely new. The sounds in each track have been done in a different way, and the music is fresh.”

Rahman is known to do research before composing songs for a film, “but I didn’t spend too much time on research for this film as it’s a very straightforward one, and I loved composing for it,” he says. The film is scripted by Tom McCarthy and stars Jon Hamm, Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton, Lake Bell, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Pitobash and Alan Arkin.

The film has 14 tracks, and Rahman has collaborated with many international and Indian artistes for this album. Earlier, he joined hands with Imtiaz Ali, for the Bollywood film, Highway, which has received great accolades from the critics. He has now collaborated with artistes like Iggy, Kendrick Lamar, KT Tunstall, Sukhwinder Singh and Raghav Mathur for Million Dollar Arm.

“It was great fun to work with them all,” he says. “I first sent my ideas about the track to Iggy and other artistes, and they replied immediately, saying they liked it. It’s always great to collaborate with different artistes to get a new flavour. In Hollywood films, 40 per cent of the music is based on scoring. In this film, I have added few Punjabi-style songs.”

Rahman has also used a few Tamil songs from an album he composed during the 1990s. “I have rearranged the tune of the song Thirakadha Kaatukkulla from En Swasa Kaatre and used it for the end credits,” he says. Unnikrishnan has also sung a song in the film.

Rahman has also composed music for India’s first film, using performance capture technology, Kochadaiiyaan, which is all set for release on May 9. “Working for a performance capture film was a little difficult,” he grants, ''and composing the background scores and songs for it was a tedious process. But I loved my journey with the Kochadaiiyaan team. We brought in about 150 orchestras and made every song unique.”

Rahman got Latha Rajinikanth to croon a song in the film which has already garnered rave reviews from audiences. The film is directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar. Rajiv Menon has done the cinematography for the film and Deepika Padukone plays the female lead. Rahman’s much awaited flick in Tamil is Kaaviya Thalaivan, a period film directed by Vasantha Balan. The film stars Prithiviraj and Siddharth in the lead roles, with Vedhika playing the female lead. Anaika Soti and Nasser play important roles in the film. The film, which is about a group of drama artistes set in the backdrop of Madurai, had Rahman research the music of the era and the culture of the time for more than six months. A period film makes demands of its own and Rahman was most impressed with the script, hoping that the album will rank among his best.

“Being a period film and the subject being about a dramatic trouple, I needed to go into the subject in some depth,” he says. Also, he wanted to ensure that he did not compose something in a flippant manner, just off the top of his head as people would not have been able to relate to the music of that era with immediate ease.

“So I made efforts to compose something which would be liked by all, but at the same time, I made sure that it did justice to the script,” he adds, “Kaaviya Thalaivan is a very emotional story and I loved composing for it,” says the music composer who was working with Vasantha Balan for the first time of whom he says, “He is a very dedicated and interesting person, at the same time, very patient and humble.”

Despite working for Hollywood projects, Rahman makes sure that he does at least one film a year in Kollywood, he being stated to do Mani Ratnam’s next film of which he is not in a position to talk. It’s been a long and melodious journey for Rahman, rich with rewards and career highs, and yet he remains as untouched by fame and fortune as the lotus, blooming in quiet splendour amidst the din of achievement.

He is indeed a different kind of Mozart, yet makes no grand gestures to call attention to itself.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/14050...-or-our-mozart

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‘Salman has approached me with three-four scripts’

A R Rahman is interested in scoring for a Salman Khan-starrer even as he gears up to collaborate with Imtiaz Ali and Ashutosh Gowariker again

Salman Khan called you 'average' at the music launch of your private album, Raunaq, a few months ago. How is your equation with the actor now?
The incident was played up by the press. By the time Salman rang me up the following morning to say that the press had done its bit, I had moved on. Everything is fine between us.

Are you planning to team up with him?
I would love to work with him. He has already approached me with three-four scripts. I may take up one of them. It will be very interesting to create a soundtrack for a Salman starrer because his projects are quite different from the films I have done so far.

READ: Music is a unifying factor, A R Rahman says

After Kochadaiyaan, you're once again scoring for a Rajinikanth movie, Lingaa. What is the brief this time? The film is set in different time zones. For now, I can just say that my music will work around these time zones, and hopefully, I won't disappoint Rajini sir's fans.

This looks like a good weekend for you with two films coming up.
I'm the last person to think on those lines but I'm happy that Million Dollar Arm and Kochadaiyaan are opening together this Friday. I have nothing to do with their dates clashing. But if I'm not wrong, this is a first for me.

Unlike Slumdog Millionaire, there's not much hype around the music you have created for Million Dollar Arm.
Slumdog Millionaire and Million Dollar Arm are Hollywood ventures with Indian backgrounds but their stories are very different. And so is the music. Million Dollar Arm is a sports-driven movie, so you shouldn't expect the actors to spring into a song-and-dance suddenly. Meanwhile, I'm also working on two 2015 English releases, The Hundred Foot Journey, a feature film, and Monkeys Of Bollywood, an animated movie.

Coming back to Bollywood, have you started working on Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha?
Yes, I have. I can't divulge the details but it's always a pleasure teaming up with Imtiaz because he's such a chilled out filmmaker.

ALSO READ: A R Rahman unhappy with Mozart and Beethoven

Ashutosh Gowariker is another regular on your list. You have two plum assignments with him, Mohenjo-daro and his TV show Everest.
I have been working on Everest for quite some time now. For the first time, I got about 20 of my students to collaborate with me on an assignment so I could teach them what the real deal is about.

But, why the decision to compose for a TV show at this juncture, given your long list of film offers?
Ashu and I go back a long way. We've collaborated on several projects and over the years we've developed a synergy of sorts. I took up this project because television is a growing medium. And in recent years, several international shows like Game Of Thrones have used music in a big way. Given its scale, I thought Everest is a good show to debut as a composer on TV.

Have you already started work on Mohenjo-daro?
No, we will start on it after we wrap up Everest. It's another time-consuming project and Ashu works on one thing at a time.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/e...w/34669178.cms

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^ "Imtiaz Ali and Ashutosh Gowariker". what are the movies?

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Gowarikar film is Mohenjo-Daro starring Hrithik. Imtiaz film is Window seat, starring Ranbir Kapoor

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AR Rahman speaks at GIIS Leadership Lecture Series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=TOaSnZlJp48

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இன்னும் ஒரு பெருமை சேர்த்த ரஹ்மான்... ஹாலிவுட் படத்தில் தமிழ்ப் பாடலை இணைத்தார்!!

எல்லாப் புகழும் இறைவனுக்கே... - இந்த தமிழ் வாக்கியத்தை உலகமே உற்று நோக்கிக் கொண்டிருந்த ஆஸ்கர் விருது விழா மோடையில் உச்சரித்து தமிழினத்தையே பெருமைப்படுத்தியவர் ஏ ஆர் ரஹ்மான். இப்போது இன்னும் ஒரு பெருமையைச் செய்திருக்கிறார். விரைவில் வரவிருக்கும் ஒரு ஹாலிவுட் ஆங்கிலப் படத்தில் தனது தமிழ்ப் பாடல் ஒன்றை இணைத்திருக்கிறார். இன்னும் ஒரு பெருமை சேர்த்த ரஹ்மான்... ஹாலிவுட் படத்தில் தமிழ்ப் பாடலை இணைத்தார்!! அந்தப் படத்துக்குப் பெயர் மில்லியன் டாலர் ஆம். இந்தப் படத்தின் ஒரு காட்சிக்கு, தான் 15 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் இசையமைத்த என் சுவாசக் காற்றே படப் பாடலைப் பயன்படுத்தியுள்ளார். திறக்காத கூட்டுக்குள்ளே பிறக்காத பிள்ளைபோலே... என ஆரம்பிக்கும் பாடல் அது. உன்னிகிருஷ்ணன் - சித்ரா குரல்களில் ஒலிக்கிறது. இதுகுறித்து ஏ ஆர் ரஹ்மான் கூறுகையில், "இந்தப் படக்குழுவினர் இந்தியப் படங்களுக்கு நான் அமைத்த இசை, பாடல்களைத் தேடிக் கொண்டிருந்தபோது, இந்தப் பாடலைக் கேட்டிருக்கிறார்கள். பாடல் வரிகள் புரியாவிட்டாலும், படத்தில் வரும் ஒரு சூழலுக்கு இந்த இசை பொருத்தமாக இருந்ததால் பயன்படுத்த விரும்பினர். ஆனால் படத்தில் வரும் சூழலுக்கேற்பவே பாடல் வரிகளும் அமைந்ததால், அந்த தமிழ்ப் பாடலை அப்படியே எந்த மாற்றமும் செய்யாமல் பயன்படுத்தியுள்ளோம். படத்தில் பார்த்தபோது இன்னும் சிறப்பாக இருந்தது," என்றார். ஹாலிவுட் படக் காட்சியொன்றில் தமிழ்ப் பாடல் இடம்பெறுவது இதுவே முதல் முறை.

Read more at: http://tamil.oneindia.in/movies/news...ie-200162.html

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15 sec promo from Lekar Hum Deewana Dil - movie directed by Arif Ali (Imtiaz Ali's brother)

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^ I saw this trailer this morning. How did we/I miss this?