AR Rahman: On a high note

A R Rahman sings in the video of his album 'Vande Mataram' (left), and the poster of Shekhar Kapur's 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'

Life is definitely on a high note these days for genius composer A R Rahman, with his soundtrack for the Mani Ratnam movie - 'Roja' - featured on Time magazine's list of 10 Best Soundtracks of all time. Rahman definitely has plenty of reasons to be over the moon.

"Roja was definitely special for me, because it changed me destiny, especially coming from two big people like Balachandran and Mani Ratnam. The great effort paid off, I guess," says Rahman.

But Rahman has no reason to rest on his laurels yet, because the future is looking pretty bright as well with Rehman also composing the musical score for Shekar Kapur's next film 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'.

"Right now 'The Golden Age' is releasing on 23rd of this month - I have co-composed with Greg Armstrong. Other than that there are no plans yet," says the composer.

Will Bollywood be getting a skip from the composer, considering that so many international projects are coming his way? Apparently not.

"I still want to do good films here - not more films, but just important films so I keep my audience happy," assures Rahman.

Well, we're glad to hear that Bollywood is still on the composer's agenda, becasue Bollywood would definitely be a less musical place without Rahman's genius!

Courtesy: TimesNow.tv