Old and rare interview of A R Rahman in Doordharsan

Interview of AR Rahman (When he was almost unknown) in Surabhi in Doordharshan



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Do you remember Piya Haji Ali

* FIZA - Anu Malik and A.R. Rahman/Warner Music Malaysia Sdn Bhd: Our A.R. Rahman wrote only one number for this soundtrack, yet he outshines composer Anu Malik, who wrote seven tunes.

Rahman stamps his mark with the folk-pop Piya Haji Ali, a song with religious lyrics. This haunting melody displays the chemistry between singers Kadar Ghulam Mustafa, Murtaza Ghulam Mustafa, Srinivas and Rahman.

Anu Malik proves he can compose original numbers instead of recycling ...

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Years back this happened #2

<b>A R Rahman joins hands with Michael Jackson</b>

He's the king of pop and has worked with some all-time music greats over the years, including britney spears, who will duet with michael jackson on the track the way you make me feel , for his 30th anniversary concert. now, however, it's the whacko jacko's turn to work with our very own, dil se man. yup, you read right, michael jackson has worked on a single with lagaan's a r rahman. titled, ekam satyam, the song is a duet sung by the maestros and is composed by rahman. the track is part sanskrit and part english. the sanskrit portions have been rendered by rahman and the english ones obviously by mj. the english lyrics, however, have been penned by kanika myer bharat and the sanskrit lyrics by a r parthasarathy. initially the song was penned specifically for the 'mj and friends concert' held in munich in june 1999. but since it gained some popularity among mj fans in the west, it appears that the song will be released as a single, sometime towards the end of 2001.

Jackson considered including it on his forthcoming album, invincible, but changed his mind at the last minute for reasons best known to himself. jackson, who will turn 43 on august 29, is hoping that fans will ignore the lurid headlines of the last decade and flock to buy his new album and all kinds of things imprinted with his name and image. but some in the licensing and music industries think it will be a struggle for michael to regain the lustre that had him towering over teen stardom in the '80s. in the short-lived world of pop, you are either hot or not, and insiders say backing jackson to make a big us chart comeback is a gamble, though the payoff could be worth megabucks. the songs for mj's album, invincible, have not yet been finalised. so after alka yagnik shot to fame with chamma chamma in moulin rouge, don't be overly surprised to see rahman on michael's latest album, invincible.

Years back this happened #1

Not Madonna, not Britney, Rahman's NO1
31 Jul 2002, 2225 hrs IST

Allah Rakha Rahman can take a bow. And, as incredulous as it may sound, Madonna and Britney Spears can bow out as the current top album-sellers.

It is now out that AR Rahman sells more albums than Madonna and Britney Spears put together. According to the UK paper The News Of The World, Rahman is said to have sold a mind-boggling 200 million albums worldwide. That's still 50 million more than Madonna (cited at 130 million) and Spears (20 million) collectively. It was Andrew Lloyd Webber who put it in words first: ''Rahman is probably the highest selling musician in the world at the moment, if you were to go by airplay and album sales alone.
But the fact remains that every album sold in the US or in the UK is officially registered as a sale and adds to the numbers which end up as the 'official' figures to chart the progress of an album or single. But although Indian albums notch up significant sales and are brought here by relatives and friends, there is no proper mechanism in place to log those sales.''

Despite such voluminous sales, why is Rahman not on, say, the Billboard list? Bias? ''Perhaps,'' hints Webber, ''there could be reservations among the managers of these lists about featuring someone unknown to the West.'' That, for AR Rahman, is a jarring note.

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News courtesy:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/17693146.cms
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