AR Rahman’s Musical Journey To Oscars Part-2
By kamla bhatt • Mar 6th, 2010Category: Bollywood, Chennai, Entertainment, Featured, India, Los Angeles, People
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Slumdog Millionaire music composer AR Rahman has been nominated for 3 Oscars and went to to win 2 Oscars for best original score and best original song Jai Ho.
AR is a private person, who likes to sit huddled in his music studio rather than talk to the media. But, with the sudden and unexpected success of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire AR finds himself in the media spotlight.
In Part-2 of our conversation AR Rahman talks about his journey that began in Chennai’s (or Madras) Kodambakkam, the epicenter of the South Indian film industry during the 1970s, and the pivotal role his mother played in shaping his career. His mother Kareema Begum believed in AR’s musical gift and talent and helped nurture and nourish it. In this candid interview he talks how his mother helped and worked as his business partner to set up his first music studio.
AR also talks about the loss of his close friend and colleague Sridhar, his senior audio and sound engineer, who worked with him right from their first film Roja to Slumdog Milliionaire and Delhi 6.
Tune it to find out what AR has to say about his musical journey and the people that helped him along the way and how Sufism has changed his life.
You can also read the transcript here.
In case you missed, you might want to listen to Part-1 of the interview with AR Rahman.
Both Part-1 and Part-2 of the interview originally ran in Feb 2009 on NDTV.com
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
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