Oscar-winning music composer AR Rahman has made some shocking revelations about Bollywood. He said that the reason he has been absent from Bollywood over the years is because several people in the Hindi film industry have constantly been spreading rumours about him, resulting into less work for him.
In an interview with FM station Radio Mirchi, Rahman was asked why he works more frequently in Tamil cinema than in Hindi films.
Responding to which, he said, “I don’t say no to good movies, but I think there is a gang, which, due to misunderstandings, is spreading some false rumours.”
Rahman, in the latest, composed music for “Dil Bechara”, the late Sushant Singh Rajput’s last film that released on OTT this Friday. The film has nine songs in total.
Dil Bechara marks the directorial debut of casting director Mukesh Chhabra, and has been garnering heaps of praises for its soulful juke box.
“When Mukesh Chhabra came to me, I gave him four songs in two days. He told me, ‘Sir, many people said don’t go to him (Rahman). They told me stories after stories’. I heard that and I realised, yeah okay, now I understand why I get less (Bollywood offers) and why the good movies are not coming to me. I am doing dark movies, because there is a whole gang working against me. People are expecting me to do stuff, but there is another gang of people preventing that from happening, without them knowing that they are doing harm,” Rahman told the radio station.
“It is fine, because I believe in destiny, and I believe that everything comes from God. So, I am taking my movies and doing my other stuff”All of you are welcome to come to me. Make beautiful movies, and you are welcome to come to me,” he said.
Rahman won two Oscars and Grammys for Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” in 2009. He has won six National Awards – the most for a music director in the country. In October last year, he turned producer with the musical film, “99 Songs”.
