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Topic started by Are Yaar (@ 203.197.141.186) on Thu Oct 10 08:44:25 EDT 2002.
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For many days, I felt that I should have a thread to share some of the articles about ARR in desi and international press and website. I intend to start this thread and expect others also to post some articles about ARR here.

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• From: AY (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Mon Jan 27 03:59:33 EST 2003
  
  A R Rahman will score for Swades
  
  The script is ready. So is the leading man Shah Rukh Khan. Ashutosh
  Gowariker is all set to go on the floors in August. But, "apart from
  Shah Rukh Khan, the only other principal name I have finalised for
  the film is A R Rahman, who will score the music again for me after
  Lagaan."
  
  Gowariker is looking for a new face for his leading lady.
  
  http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/jan/25news.htm
  
  It looks like Rahman has set tunes for five songs in Arjun's
  Parasuram and they are shooting a song right now.
  
  http://webulagam.com/cinema/cinenews/0301/24/1030124019_1.htm
  
  
  Pop Stop
  - Business India, January 20, 2003
  
  Pop music maestro A.R.Rahman is slated to give his first live concert in India on 1 February at Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium. Rahman has given concerts abroad but never in India because of "technical" issues. He also says he has learnt from his forays on the London stage and now feels able to manage shows of his own. Rahman's Unity of Light concerts are expected to swing through 11 countries through the rest of the year. Rahman is also treading on thin-ice with proposed reinterpretations of Rabindranath Tagore. "Javed Akhtar has translated and I am doing the arrangement of some Rabindra Sangeet, which will also be used in the film Netaji, " he says. Rahman has roped in some of the biggest playback singers in Bollywood to render his compositions.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Tue Jan 28 04:51:40 EST 2003
  
  Bombay Dreams nominated for 2003 Laurence Olivier Awards
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  Laurence Olivier Awards are considered as equivalent to the Oscars
  for musicals.
  
  From Official website:
  
  Bombay Nomination
  Dreams contender for top award
  
  The contenders for the UKs most prestigious theatre awards were
  announced this morning.
  
  Bombay Dreams has been nominated in the 2003 Laurence Olivier
  Awards for Best New Musical.
  
  Mark Thompson has also been nominated in the Best Cosutme Design
  category.
  
  Winners of the 27th annual Awards will be announced on Friday, 14
  February 2003 in a star-studded lunchtime ceremony, and will
  subsequently be broadcast on BBC2 television at 8.00pm on Friday
  15 February.
  
  Good Luck Bombay Dreams!!
  
  For full list of nominees see
  http://www.albemarle-london.com/awards/oliv0206.html#2003
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Wed Jan 29 02:22:58 EST 2003
  
  Mani Ratnam's film scores at Palm Springs
  S THANGADURAI
  
  FILMFARE.COM[ TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2003 09:07:05 PM ]
  
  MUMBAI: The Mani Ratnam film Kannaththil Muththamittaal, featuring
  Madhavan and Simran, has been received extremely well at the
  prestigious Palm Springs International Film Festival held at
  California recently.
  
  The Madras Talkies production was placed third in the top 10
  audience favourites. It is a proud moment for Tamil cinema with the
  film being appreciated among 200 films from all over the world.
  
  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?
  artid=35788777
  
  
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Fri Jan 31 21:37:40 EST 2003
  
  
  http://www.splicedonline.com/02features/2002best.html
  
  
  
  Two mesmerizing musicals were the two best films of 2002 -- and I
  can't tell you how strange and surprising it feels to declare that
  since I'm not a big fan of musicals.
  
  But for days, even weeks, after seeing these two pictures, I couldn't
  get their infectious songs out of my head (I don't advise
  absentmindedly singing a song called "They Both Reached For the Gun"
  while sitting in an airport at Christmas). Nor could the film buff in
  me shake the wildly entertaining stories, the charismatic
  performances, the fantastic photography and about a thousand other
  exquisite details that made both movies completely unforgettable.
  
  One of them is "Chicago," an ingeniously cinematic adaptation of the
  jazz-fueled Broadway hit about murderous vaudeville vixens, played by
  Catherine Zeta-Jones and the magnificent Renée Zellweger in a career-
  best performance. We'll get to that one in a minute.
  
  The other is called "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time In India," and it
  couldn't be more different. It's a nearly four-hour long
  epic "Bollywood" extravaganza about rain-starved Indian peasant
  farmers in 1893 challenging their cruel colonial British overlords to
  a winner-take-all cricket match that will determine if the farmers
  will have their taxes waived for the next three year -- or tripled.
  
  It sounds ridiculous, I know. But the prolific Indian film industry
  has been cranking out pictures in this vein for years. They know what
  they're doing and this fabulous, whimsical, Oscar-nominated feel-good
  delight is the culmination of every ambitious, romantic, cinematic
  and melodious instinct of showmanship the country's studios have ever
  mustered.
  
  However, "Lagaan" (now available on DVD -- widescreen is a must) can
  be only a footnote to this list because, as you might have guessed
  from the Oscar mention above, was officially released in 2001,
  although it didn't reach San Francisco until May of 2002.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Fri Jan 31 21:38:26 EST 2003
  
  "The newly packaged Jana Gana Mana is on lines of A R Rahman's Vande
  Mataram "
  
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  http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=40787
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Fri Jan 31 21:39:06 EST 2003
  
  "Achyut displayed his artistic streak when A R Rahman called upon
  him to create the cassette and CD title logo for Lata Mangeshkar
  album `Maa Tujhe Salam'."
  
  http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=40741
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Tue Feb 4 23:33:28 EST 2003
  
  http://www.d ickinson.edu/academics/commonhour.html
  
  Common Hours - Spring 2003
  The following is a tentative schedule of Common Hours for the 2003
  spring semester. For updated information, check In & Around D ickinson.
  
  Common Hours take place on Tuesday at 12 noon in Rubendall Recital
  Hall, except where indicated.
  
  Jan. 21 Sustained Dialogues.
  ...
  
  Jan. 28 Bombay: Music with a Message
  Controversial love story of a Hindu Brahmin boy and a Muslim girl
  against the backdrop of communal violence in Bombay. Mani Ratnam, the
  film's director, had his house bombed. A. R. Rahman, music director
  of Lloyd Webber's West End production of Bombay Dreams, achieved
  national fame in India for his songs. During the Common Hour, the
  songs embedded in the film will be viewed. T. Scott Smith.
  
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Tue Feb 4 23:34:51 EST 2003
  
  http://www.madnomad.com/music/resources.cfm
  
  03.A.8. A.R. Rahman - India
  
  The predominance of film music in India is well known. A.R. Rahman
  is the reigning heavyweight is this insanely popular genre. When a
  film is hot in India, so is the soundtrack. Taal was the most popular
  film when we arrived in India and the selected cut is taken from its
  soundtrack.
  
  info:
  www.rahmanonline.com
  www.arrahman.com
  imusic.artistdirect.com
  purchase:
  www.gemm.com (AR Rahman)
  www.gemm.com (A.R. Rahman)
  ubl.artistdirect.com
  
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Tue Feb 4 23:37:21 EST 2003
  
  "The refusal of key Indian filmmakers to rally behind Mehta and
  defend freedom of expression was another crucial factor. With the
  notable exception of Aparna Sen, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal and one or
  two others, most Indian filmmakers ignored her plight. The most
  deafening silence came from Bollywood, Bombay's multi-billion dollar
  film industry, where only two actors and the composer A.R. Rahman
  bothered to contact Mehta and offer their solidarity. The rest of
  Bollywood, to its eternal shame, said and did nothing."
  
  
  Krish
  
  
  http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/dmeh-a10.shtml
  
  
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Tue Feb 4 23:38:19 EST 2003
  
  Outlook in its usual adimedaavi thanam
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  Global Notes
  
  Ten years in mainstream cinema, and A.R. Rahman now thinks film music in India has reached a dead-end. An excuse for giving such a big dud in his last score for Kaadal Virus? Whatever, he'll soon be on a 10-concert world tour, called Unity of Light Show. And the cause? Of course, he has one-to raise money for cancer cure. How predictable, like our music.
  
  http://www.outlookindia.com/glitterati.asp?fodname=20030210
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Tue Feb 4 23:39:30 EST 2003
  
  http://www.the-week.com/23feb09/life2.htm
  
  Cinema
  
  While researching for the film, Benegal got a lot of help from the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata and Bose's family. The script is by Shama Zaidi and Atul Tiwari while A.R. Rahman will set Javed Akhtar's lyrics to music. After shooting for three weeks in Kolkata, the team will move on to Myanmar, Malaysia, Germany and Uzbekistan. Shooting will wrap up by July and the film will be out to coincide with Bose's birthday in 2004. Ideal, when you consider that this is Benegal's "celluloid homage" to the great hero.
  
  
• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Sat Feb 8 00:21:31 EST 2003
  
  From interview with Singer Srinivas in today's The Hindu 'friday
  review'.
  
  
  The road to success was not always smooth for this singer.
  "There was a monopoly of 'voice'. Only a few chosen remained at
  the top rung for many years together. No new singer or musician
  was given a chance. In 1992, I saw Mani Ratnam's 'Roja' and made
  up my mind to meet A.R.Rahman," says Srinivas.
  
  "While I was in Chennai, I made futile attempts to meet
  Ilaiyaraja. Getting in touch with Rahman was much easier. Rahman
  is a godsend to the music industry. Had it not been for him, you
  would never have heard many of us ever sing for films," adds
  Srinivas.
  
  "Working for Rahman has always been a truly enriching
  experience. Hariharan was initially chosen to sing 'Minsara
  Poove', in Rajnikanth's 'Padaiyappa', but he was not in Chennai
  when Rajni wanted to hear the track. So I filled in. Rahman told
  me, 'Remember you're singinf for Rajni, so the style and voice
  tenor has to suit his image'. And when Hariharan came back, it was
  recorded in his voice but somehow Rajni seemed to prefer the track
  I'd sung earlier. Eventually I won the Tamil Nadu State award for
  this song."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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