A.R.Rahman to Seek an International Career

Posted by admin on Jul 30th, 2010 | 0 comments

A.R.Rahman has a few Hindi films to wrap up, like Rockstar and 1-800-Love after which he will be concentrating fully into Hollywood, according to sources. Rahman who has won a couple of Oscars and Grammy for his Hollywood project Slumdog Millionaire, is now contemplating getting into international projects.

Says a friend of Rahman, “The Indian assignments after Slumdog Millioniare have been very time-consuming, especially Raavan where Rahman not only had to do two versions of the music in Hindi and Tamil, but director Mani Ratnam also asked him to give 3-4 tunes for every lyric before one was selected. The music of Raavan took more time than Rahman could afford, with the result that other Indian assignments primarily Abbas Tyrewala’s John Abraham-Pakhi starrer got left behind.”

At the moment Rahman is back again in Chennai for mixing the music of Abbas’s film. But the background score of the film which releases in October is still to be done. Though no one is admitting it, there is buzz that the one reason why Tyrewala’s film went into the backburner was because Rahman has been very busy, staying half the year out of the country for world concerts.

The source adds, “Rahman had to continuously keep breaking his international tours and other projects to be home for various reasons, like the music release of Raavan and other things. He has begun to feel that his international career would never take off if he has to keep returning home.”

Abbas Tyrewala however defends Rahman, “Yes Rahman has been a little tied up and therefore unable to deliver quickly. But that’s because he has to be constantly moving back and forth between India and the US. Raavan took much longer than Rahman thought. I’m not worried about my music. It’s almost done. Whatever time Rahman takes is finally worth the while.”

As of now, Rahman has not taken any new project and looks like he is looking ahead of India.