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A.R.Rahman's WARRIORS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH

Topic started by google (@ 203.168.65.27) on Sun Jul 20 00:30:46 EDT 2003.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

A.R.Rahman's Chinese film for Columbia Pictures Warriors of Heaven and Earth will release in October 2003. Columbia Pictures is the same company which produced Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Here's a video showing clips from the movie. The music that is played is from the film, composed by ARR.

mms://211.144.9.108/date/20030714/cen1370.wmv

OTHER LINKS

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808404386&intl=us
http://www.monkeypeaches.com/heroesofheavenandearth.html
http://www.kungfucinema.com/reviews/warriorsofheavenandearth.htm

Lets wish Rahman good luck.

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• From: paran (@ 203.123.16.112) on: Wed Aug 27 02:27:44 EDT 2003
  
  As long as you got the point...that's good enough....for me..
  
  
• From: ron (@ 66.185.85.78) on: Wed Aug 27 16:05:32 EDT 2003
  
  GUYZ... GUESS WHO IS SINGING "WARRIORS IN PEACE" ENGLISH VERSION? SINGER SUNITHA SARATHY.. YES... THAT SUNITHA SARATHY SANG..... "THOOTHU VARUMAA" IN KAAKA KAAKA...... IT WILL BE GREATE... BLAAZE IS WRITING THE LYRICS OF FOR THAT SONG....
  
  
• From: Cheenu (@ 137.138.179.157) on: Fri Aug 29 23:31:37 EDT 2003
  
  Finally , it looks like people have understood that ARR is the most competant MD when there is no scope for any song in a film
  
  
• From: itsallrubbish (@ 219.65.109.183) on: Sat Aug 30 03:08:22 EDT 2003
  
  hmmm..
  then why did IR compose for "Pesum padam"?
  
  
• From: hemal (@ 210.214.132.91) on: Wed Sep 3 05:44:13 EDT 2003
  
  SUNITHA SARATHY ROCKS MAN. THOO THU VARUMA IS SO AWESOME.KAAKHA KAAKHA WAS AWESOME. WHAT IS THIS CHINESE MOVIE ABOUT WILL WE SEE A RELEASE IN INDIA. HEY SUNITHA ALSO SANG IN MARO MARO FOR BOYS. BUT THAT SONG IS NOT AS GOOG AS TTV . BUT HOW CAN SHE HANDLE THE ENGLISH MAN . RAHMAN ROCKS.
  
  
• From: checkout (@ 210.50.248.135) on: Sat Sep 6 04:41:53 EDT 2003
  
  hahahah...
  its really hilarious...
  ambleen pardon me, but paran has really got u running crazy, in this thread !
  
  
• From: checkout (@ 210.50.248.135) on: Sat Sep 6 04:43:17 EDT 2003
  
  Mani Rathnam denies reports that there are no songs in his next film
  [Source: Galatta, Sep 2003]
  
  
  
  
  
  Cinema Paradiso, a full time rental DVD showroom which is the first of its kind in Chennai. Cinema Paradiso has more than 1000 titles covering action, romance and comedy.
  Earlier it was Padma Shri Kamal Haasan who imprinted his hands and feet for the inauguration. Now the Oruvar of Tamil Cinema - Mani Ratnam was the celebrity who was on the Walk of Fame at Cinema Paradiso this morning. Starlets like Shalini Ajith, Kathal Virus Richards, Jeyam Ravi, attended the gala function. While speaking to galatta.com, Mani Ratnam said The Tamil version of my bilingual film will be launched soon and the project got delayed because of the setback to my health. And he denied reports that there are no songs in the film. It has songs and music by A R Rahman said the director.
  
  
• From: Vicky (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sun Sep 7 08:31:43 EDT 2003
  
  Checkout,
  
  Plz checkout your brains before saying that paran has kept ambleen running crazy. If you don't know how to interpret phrases and verses, please don't embarrass yourself here coz everybody knows how paran gets whacked by ambleen ALL THE TIME.
  
  
• From: vimal (@ 172.188.17.60) on: Sun Sep 7 09:30:10 EDT 2003
  
  itsallrubbish (@ 219.65.109.183) on: Sat Aug 30 03:08:22 EDT 2003
  MD for pesumpadam was L vaidyanathan-Not IR
  
  
• From: checkout (@ 210.50.248.174) on: Sun Sep 7 10:11:14 EDT 2003
  
  wow vicky,
  
  i dont see y u r getting so angry.. i just voiced whatever i felt. u r coming after me as though i have said something like ARR is greater than IR.
  i have the time to check out my brains. but better take sometime to check your BP..:p.. just kiddin..
  ambleen, i see many supporters and followers. but in this thread - dog psychiatrist argument - i think paran did get u running crazy.
  no offense..
  
  
• From: Vicky (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sun Sep 7 12:36:40 EDT 2003
  
  Wow checkout,
  
  your posts looks kinda intelligent until the part where you keep giving it away when you say paran got ambleen running.
  
  o btw, before being the judge of who are the followers of ambleen, i think all us know who paran's followers are :)
  
  And for a person who can perceive it as winning when somebody is losing and vice versa there's nothing anyone else can do for you.
  no offence 2.
  
  
• From: nick (@ 65.161.65.104) on: Sun Sep 7 12:53:05 EDT 2003
  
  hehehe.....check out, you better check yourself out! :))
  
  
• From: it's me (@ 66.119.34.39) on: Sun Sep 7 12:58:39 EDT 2003
  
  in other words, you better go and sutthu kudu to paran!
  
  hahahaha......
  
  
• From: checkout (@ 210.50.40.59) on: Sun Sep 7 13:00:57 EDT 2003
  
  as i have told in the previous post, i dont mind checking myself out.
  and to be precise, u have voiced your opinion and i have voiced mine. no one is going to win or lose at the end.
  u might have seen ambleen whacking paran in the past. i found paran's reply to ambleen interesting this time.
  and nick, hope u come up with something to talk rather than the oneliners.
  
  
• From: checkout (@ 210.50.40.59) on: Sun Sep 7 13:03:44 EDT 2003
  
  it's me... nothing much to say.. i dont encourage trash talk.
  
  
• From: Vicky (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sun Sep 7 13:18:39 EDT 2003
  
  To the nut who said who saw the preview and got excited by the bgm, please don't emnarass yourself. The trailer music belonged to the soundtracks of Hollywood movies(Howard Shore, etc). You think Rahman can come with such music? Of course he can, if he copies again. But listen to Warriors From Heaven And Earth and you will know what rubbish bgm he comes up with.
  ____________________________________________________________________________________
  no reply to the above?
  
  
• From: paran (@ 203.123.16.4) on: Sun Sep 7 23:23:06 EDT 2003
  
  Hey Checkout...
  i wouldn't say thanks or comment anything regarding ur postings...as it is not offending nor supportive...it's just ur opinion and so i repsect it...
  
  but why Vicky is backing his good friend so much?...any link?...yengeyo uthaikihe?..
  
  
• From: OBSERVER (@ 66.119.34.39) on: Mon Sep 8 02:59:50 EDT 2003
  
  How come MADDY can go around swearing in vulgarity?
  
  Why is that the matha farkers from ARR camp find it disgusting when others use vulgarity but not when MADMAN(boy/gal/eunuch?) MADDY use it?
  
  
• From: hh (@ ) on: Sun Sep 21 08:02:51 EDT 2003
  
  Rahman jumps over the Great Wall
  AFSANA AHMED
  
  TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2003 01:06:38 AM ]
  
  
  
  
  Click to enlarge picture
  
  After Lagaan, A R Rahman's music is again set to make waves at the Oscars, this time with a Chinese film.
  
  
  
  His first-ever Chinese film, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, will be the 2004 official entry to the Oscars. A period saga directed by Hei Peng with the maestro's music, Warriors of Heaven and Earth is China's second film after Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
  
  
  
  Rahman is the first Indian to work behind the Great Wall with the ace director who had earlier directed Red Firecracker Green Firecracker and wrote the screenplay for Swordsman in Double Flag.
  
  
  
  "The experience was liberating. There were many raised brows. It was left to me in blind faith. That's why I prayed that everything should work out well, or else, this could have been my biggest humiliation ever," he says.
  
  
  
  The remuneration too turned into a great deal, says Rahman, who was briefly in town. "Money any way doesn't count in certain phases in life," the maestro says. This, says Rahman, is one of the many international offers that he's chosen. "I am considering a couple of Hollywood offers. I refused one of Miramax's film as I found the theme very dark," says the composer, who made his presence felt on the global scene with Bombay Dreams.
  
  
  
  He says he has been an avid fan of Chinese films — the award-circuit types. It was one of the meetings with Sony Classical head that resulted in this crossover offer. "My head was blank when he asked me to meet Hei Peng as I didn't understand the language. But when I saw the film, I found it had immense scope for my kind of music. Moreover, Hei -Ping heard Lagaan and Vandhe Mataram albums and liked them so much that he made a 'temp-track' and used it in his film. I committed then and there."
  
  
  
  The film is about the silk route from China to Turkey and to India. Music has Indian, Turkish and Chinese mix.
  
  
  
  "The film has a Japanese actor, an American producer and an Indian composer."
  
  
  
  The music — mostly background score — heightens the emotional impact of the film. "There is just one song in the Mandarin language sung by the famous Taiwanese singer Jolin," he says.
  
  
  
  So is he out of bounds for Indian films? "No, they can still afford me. But, I am being choosy about my assignments. It's my fans' wish."
  
  
  
• From: SANTHOSH (@ 203.145.177.227) on: Mon Sep 22 08:57:42 EDT 2003
  
  ARR IS BREAKING THE LIMITS OF MUSIC BY HIS EXTRORDINARY TALENT.
  
  
• From: Ramki (@ 161.150.2.26) on: Tue Sep 23 13:14:56 EDT 2003
  
  On the eve of nationwide release of 'Warriors oh Heaven and Earth' in China, Singapore oli
  interviewed ARRahman’s Assistant/Sound Engineer Sridhar
  
  Excerpts from the interview
  
  Columbia/Tristar pictures approached ARR sometime last june(2002) to do the musical score for the film.
  Since ARR was busy with Bombay dreams (according to Sridhar, at that time Rahman had only 2-3 hrs sleep every day for 25 continuous days) he did not accept the project immediately. He asked them to wait They approached him again after 6 months when ARR agreed to visit Hongkong to meet the Director. He committed to the project immediately after watching the movie.
  
  Before starting to write the music, ARR studied Chinese instruments and music. When he was done writing the symphony score, they decided to record it in China. Since China was plagued with SARS at that time, they did the recording in Prague (Czech). According to Sridhar, Michael from New York and Sivakumar assisted ARR during the recording. The recording was done with live instruments (90 Piece Orchestra)
  
  Mixing was done in Madras. Since Rahman felt the movie was too violent he wanted to add a song expressing peace and unity. He recorded an English song with a new singer Sunitha and Blaaze(one of the lyricist in Boys)wrote the lyrics. Sony was so impressed with the song they wanted a Chinese version. Popular Chinese singer Jolie (!!) was brought to madras and the Chinese version was recorded.
  Song is played in the background during the end titles.
  
  Final mixing was done in Australia. Since ARR was busy with re-mixing work for Boys he couldn’t go to Australia. The song files (Sridhar used the word ‘reel’) was sent everyday to Australia through internet.
  Australians took 25 days to complete the final mixing.
  
  Rahman is in Beijing to attend the nationwide release of the movie.
  
  Sony will soon be releasing the CD .
  
  When asked to comment about ARR’s future projects, Sridhar mentioned there are 3 Tamil movies, 6 Hindi and talks are going on for couple of English films.
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.132.72) on: Tue Sep 23 15:30:56 EDT 2003
  
  hh,
  
  where shud i 'click to enlarge picture' :-)
  
  

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