Sydney, Forty thousand Sydneysiders Saturday night clapped and cheered as the ‘Mozart of Madras’ A.R. Rahman and his troupe provided a spectacular musical extravaganza to salute India-Australia friendship. Seamlessly blending the traditional with the modern, the music spanned the differences of language, enthralling old and young, touching the very heart strings at a time when [...]
New Delhi, From Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy to Vishal-Shekhar, pop star-turned-VJ-turned-playback singer Anushka Manchanda is working with all the big composers in the industry, but she is desperate to work with one man – Oscar winning music maestro A.R. Rahman. “I’m desperate to work with Rahman. He makes super songs and his music is not only different, it’s [...]
Chennai, Music maestro A.R. Rahman, whose compositions in “Slumdog Millionaire” made him the first Indian to win twin Oscars, is critical of political parties using for a poll campaign the song “Jai Ho” that he composed for Danny Boyle’s rags-to-riches drama. “I was like in the bed, I was dehydrated, exhausted, and then all these [...]