MEMORIES ▶️▶️ 🎼 AR RAHMAN 🎼

[MysteRy]

for me ARR is an emotion sis
nice post sis

[MysteRy]

I met Dileep for the first time when he’d come to Bombay to record a jingle. At that time, he told me he’d listened to my ghazals and that he wanted me to sing a song for his first film with Mani Ratnam. I knew Mani sir’s work and liked the track that Dileep played for me. I came down to Madras and recorded the song at his studio. I usually write my lyrics in Devanagiri and sing the song. I remember recording my song for Roja vividly; lyricist Vairamuthu sir was sitting next to me and reciting the lyrics to me. When I wrote ‘Tamizha Tamizha’ in Devanagiri, he was scandalised! “Ennaya idhu, Tamizha Tamizha solrenga… ivar Hindi la ezhudaraar,”he remarked. But then, things worked out fine and the song came out beautifully.

When I saw the song finally, I was really disappointed. It came during the end credits, and everyone was walking out of the theatre when it was playing out. The most interesting thing is that the lyrics actually lend itself to a marching song, but the tune was like a lullaby. That was Rahman’s touch.



- HariHaran

[MysteRy]

We had a very intellectual discussion while creating " Anbendra mazhiyile" . It's about a girl who basically says she finds God appealing. AR was interested in the concept and wanted to catch it in the music. he wanted to create a prayer song everyone could sing. I collected some Gregorian chants and showed it to him, but he didn't think the audience would like it. But he took the sheer scale of them and set it to an Indian raga, not wanting to do a typical church song . It was totally different. He gave it a feel that made it sound like it was coming from deep European valley . It was totally AR.

- RAJEEV MENON