The Mozart of Madras, Allahrakha Rahman, who is known by his stage name, AR Rahman, is celebrating his 54th birthday today. In his illustrious career, the composer has given us several memorable songs from films like Bombay, Roja, OK Kanmani, Sivaji, Saathiya, Dil Se, Lagaan, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and many more. Many movie buffs and music lovers – not only Indians – cheered him when he bagged the Academy Award for his composition of Jai Ho from Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. While this song is special to us for so many reasons, you would be surprised to know that the track was originally composed for Salman Khan starrer, Yuvvraj, directed Subhash Ghai. Also Read - Trending Entertainment News Today — Varun REVEALS Kartik and Ranbir Kapoor had warned him against working with Sara; Fans support Vikas Gupta after his emotional breakdown
The Saudgar helmer revealed this news in 2010 at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF), where he had said, “The words of the song were very poetic — Zareewale neele aasman ke tale... [Under the embroidered sky...] The poetry did not fit the character of Zayed Khan, on whom the song was to be shot. So I asked Gulzarji to compose another song. Then one night, Rahman called me and said Danny Boyle was in a hurry and wanted a Hindi song at the end of his film. He asked me if he could give Boyle ‘Jai Ho.’ I told him to go ahead.” Also Read - AR Rahman's mother, Kareema Begum, passes away in Chennai
Well, after this incident, all we can say is you should go with the flow and leave everything to destiny. Talking about Slumdog Millionaire, the film featured Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar, Anil Kapoor, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Rubina Ali and others. It was produced by Christian Colson with a screenplay from Simon Beaufoy. The film was based on the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup. Also Read - Say what! Dhanush sings for the first time for Music Maestro AR Rahman in Atrangi Re
Here's wishing the maestro of music a very happy birthday.
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