AR Rahman

A.R.Rahman(b.1966) is a popular Indian film music composer. He made a debut with Mani Ratnam's movie, Roja (means: Rose)(1992) in Tamil and RamGopal Varma[?]'s movie Rangeela (means: colorful)(1995) in Hindi.

A.R.Rahman is credited with revival of the Indian film music scenario. He did this by bringing the usage of technology into music. However, this usage of technology in music is sometimes dubbed as excessive and injurious by a section of Indian critics. But lately, Rahman was successful in transcending such criticisms by creating his own style of composition by a symbiosis of the best elements of Technology and the Indian Classical Instruments[?].

He revived India's national song with his pop album Vande Mataram(1996). Recently, he also came up with an album called Jana gana mana, a huge conglomerattion of performances by all the leading exponents/artists of Indian Classical Music.

Andrew Lloyd Weber[?], himself being an acclaimed composer, was very much impressed with Rahman's unique style and so made him compose for his maiden stage production Bombay Dreams[?](2002). This stage-play was well received in England and opened him up to new vistas in Hollywood.

His future projects include Shekhar Kapur's Long walk to freedom[?] and Paani.