OOhh, not bad, this magazine wakes up and stays too.. --- In [email protected], "yasheer_ar2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movie-news/apr-06-01/05-04-06-ar-rahman.html > > Mentor's magic words and AR Rahman's hit songs > April 05, 2006 > > AR Rahman > > > There is a story that before AR Rahman composed a hit song, he would > visit his late guru Karimulla Kadri Khan in Ponneri and wait on him. > His guru would go into meditation and then give him a word. If Rahman > used the word in his song, it would become a big hit. That is how > Rahman got words like Mustafaa Mustafaa, Muquabula Muquabula and > Chaiya Chaiya. Well, the words still ring in his fans' minds and now > it has started ringing in Hollywood. > Filmmaker Spike Lee's Inside Man, a Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster > and Clive Owen starrer, features Rahman's Chaiya, Chaiya song both in > the opening and closing scenes. > The song, of course, has drawn critical notice. Digvijay Singh, a Los > Angeles based Indian filmmaker feels it doesn't gel with the movie. > However, the song written by veteran Gulzar and the music composed by > Rahman have touched a vibrant chord with mainstream American moviegoers. > One executive from a production company in Hollywood had asked his > Indian assistant to get him a CD of the song right away. A senior > journalist on the Wall Street has said that the influence of Indian > movies on Hollywood is greatly increasing. It ought to for India, > today, is the largest producer of films in the world and it has some > of the finest filmmakers, directors and music directors. Is Rahman the > vanguard? >
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