The budget of 'Rockstar' directed by Imtiaz Ali is reportedly over 60 crore including publicity and prints. ...
05:02 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Mumbai: It's the final day for rehearsals for the Rockstar concert in Mumbai. But A R Rahman looks a little distracted. "Please, can all these people with cameras in their hands move out of the room..... we need to finish this and we have just a few hours," he snaps. Ever since his Oscars, Rahman has been shuttling between LA and Chennai and clearly life has never been the same....
03:15 PM, Nov 01, 2011
AR Rahman, Ranbir Kapoor and Mohit Chauhan jammed together while rehearsing for their upcoming live concert scheduled to take place in Mumbai. ...
05:04 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: Music maestro AR Rahman has added another prestigious trophy to his shelf -- the public choice award for 'If I Rise' from '127 Hours' at the World Soundtrack Awards 2011 at Ghent, Belgium. "Thanks to my fans and the World Soundtrack Academy for the Public Choice award for the score of '127 Hours'," Rahman posted on his Facebook page. The World Soundtrack Academy Saturday announced the 2011 winners...
03:02 PM, Oct 24, 2011
The music of Ranbir Kapoor starrer 'Rockstar' is completely driven by the AR Rahman sound that we know of. ...
10:07 PM, Oct 18, 2011
Musical Maestro AR Rahman joined hands with Mick Jagger and other international music stars to form a band called 'Superheavy'. ...
11:59 PM, Oct 04, 2011
Mumbai: Many believe Bollywood songs have overshadowed other forms of music genres but music maestro A.R. Rahman completely disagrees. He believes all forms of music will always coexist. "Everything coexists with each other. It's just that other forms of music are less popular on television. I don't think classical music will ever die as long as people have interest or quest for true things," Rahman told reporters here. Talking about...
05:00 PM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Oscar winning composer A.R. Rahman roped in Orianthi Panagaris, lead guitarist of the late king of pop Michael Jackson's team, to play for the song 'Saadda Haq' in Imtiaz Ali's forthcoming film 'Rockstar'. "While Rahman and Imtiaz had short-listed several Indian and international musicians, they had Orianthi on the top of their list, given her incredible body of work and her huge international success," a source from the...
06:55 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Looks like AR Rahman is finally making a comeback on the charts with the music of 'Rockstar'. Here's 'Jo Bhi Main' from the film and it looks like Ranbir really enjoyed strumming his guitar while shooting this number. ...
05:26 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New York: Dave Stewart went to the hilltop and called on a higher rock star Mick Jagger. Thus began Superheavy, a project shrouded in secrecy for two years and now with one album released this week to its credit Stewart, founder of the Eurythmics, rang the Rolling Stones frontman from a hilltop in Jamaica with the idea of forming a super group from different genres. They brought together British soul...
06:38 PM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: AR Rahman was going through a "dark" phase when the offer to jam with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger came his way and the rest is history. The Oscar-Grammy winner is excited about his teaming up with Jagger, English singer Joss Stone, musician Dave Stewart and Jamaican reggae artist Damian Marley for 'SuperHeavy'. The band's 16-song album has two of his contributions -- 'Satyameva Jayate' and 'Mahiya' --...
11:47 AM, Sep 12, 2011
Los Angeles: Oscar-winner A R Rahman, Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges are coming together for director Kevin Lima's Bollywood-style animated musical adventure 'Monkeys of Mumbai'. Lima, who directed Disney's animated 'Tarzan' before turning to the live-action hits like '102 Dalmations' and 'Enchanted', has signed on to helm Dream Works Animation's new project, whose story is somewhat similar to the great Indian epic the Ramayana. The movie centers around a man...
02:01 PM, Jul 23, 2011
If British singer Myleene Klass is to be believed, she was offered a Bollywood movie while she was in India to shoot a documentary. "I've been asked to star in a Bollywood film as they really like my post-pregnancy figure out there. So rather than trying to drop those last few pregnancy pounds, I'm back on the curries," thesun.co.uk quoted Klass as saying. On her trip to India in June,...
01:37 PM, Jul 23, 2011
New Delhi: Composer AR Rahman, actor Allu Arjun, Mamooty and singer Shreya Ghosal were the big winners at the 58th Filmfare Award (South) at Hyderabad that brought together the biggest stars from the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada film industries. Tamil film 'Mynaa', Telugu film 'Vedam', Malayalam film 'Pranchiyettan & The Saint' and Kannada film 'Jackie' won the Best Film award in their respective language categories. Tollywood superstar Chiranjeevi and...
01:20 PM, Jul 04, 2011
It seems Yash Chopra's next directorial venture is going to be a musical treat. After collaborating with music maestro A.R. Rahman, he has now roped in ace lyricist Gulzar for his movie and is quite excited about it. "Though he has been associated with Yash Raj Films earlier, this is the first time that I will be working alongside Gulzar Bhai," the veteran filmmaker said in a statement. "I am...
02:57 PM, Jun 20, 2011
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has dismissed as "unprecedented and preposterous" Indian music composer Ismail Darbar's charge that A.R. Rahman "bought" his Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009. "It is not unusual for an individual to express the view that Academy members selected the wrong recipient for a particular award, but to charge that a win was achieved by underhanded means is unprecedented and preposterous," the Oscar...
07:10 PM, Jun 11, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood music director Ismail Darbar has now claimed that music director AR Rahman and others bought their Oscar for the Danny Boyle movie 'Slumdog Millionaire'. He however offered no proof to back his allegation. "I have heard that the Oscar awards are often bought by artists. I never understood how 'Slumdog Millionaire' received the Oscar. I know that it was bought by the recipients," said Ismail Darbar. It remains...
08:47 AM, May 28, 2011
Mumbai: Filmmaker Yash Chopra is back after a hiatus of seven years to take his position behind the camera for his next directorial venture for which he has teamed up with music composer AR Rahman and may cast actor Shah Rukh Khan in a lead role. Chopra and Rahman have come together for the music of this project, film trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted on Tuesday. "I am starting work...
01:32 PM, May 17, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Playback singer KS Chithra's eight-year-old daughter drowned in a swimming pool in a villa in Dubai on Thursday, sources close to her family here said. The body of the child, Nandana, was found in the pool of the villa in Emirates Hills, where the singer was staying, the sources said. The child was rushed to hospital where she was declared dead. Chithra is in to Dubai to participate in...
10:07 AM, Apr 15, 2011
