Thanks for sharing shah navas.... interesting facts On 11/17/06, Shah Navas G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://geniusarr.blogspot.com/2006/11/unknown-facts-of-rahman-read-it-now.html Unknown facts of Rahman - Read It Now!!!!!<http://geniusarr.blogspot.com/2006/11/unknown-facts-of-rahman-read-it-now.html> Whenever you talk about Rahman life, there is a lot of things happend around him other than music. A lot of great people talk about him because of his simplcity and divine towards work. Since I'm a die hard fan of Rahman, I was following his updates and news about him since he begin his career. In this section I would share with you facts you might not know about Rahman or a recap of his past. " On his trip to Delhi to receive the Padma Shri, he offered namaaz at the Hazrath Nizamuddin Dargah. In 1995, his mother chose Saira Banu as his bride. The couple have two daughters. Rahman zealously guards his privacy. His house is protected from prying eyes by an imposing gate and guests are ushered through a side gate into a small and austere office. Ask him to pose for a photograph in his well-manicured lawn, and he very politely but firmly shakes his head. "He just wants to be left alone with his music," said James Noell, a long-time aide. He would rather the hype and hoopla surrounded his music than his persona. But his shy demeanour hides a generous heart. Associates remember him stopping at a busy Mumbai intersection to give alms to beggars lining the street. "He just thrust his hand into his pockets and gave them all the money," said one. Another time in Chennai he got out of his car to help a cyclist who lay in an epileptic seizure." *Source by E Vijayalakshmi, Chennai, All the world is a keyboard . * "I worked with him for 58 nights for Taal and he would compose music from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. He knows technique, has a rare sense of sound and a great ear. He can make any besu[image: http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/5051/4343/320/236540/cov3_small.jpg]<http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/5051/4343/1600/534795/cov3_small.jpg>ra (tuneless) voice sing well. This is obvious from singers who have sung beautifully for his albums but have not done well later." After Roja I was the first Hindi film director to approach him with a project in 1994. It was for Shikhar with Jackie Shroff and Shah Rukh Khan which unfortunately did not materialise. When I met him for the first time I found him so divine and so simple. "Let us work first, then we'll talk about money," he told me then. It is strange now that he is the highest-paid music director in the history of the Indian music industry! I love him both as a composer and as a friend. He is very sweet to talk to. The only thing is you talk and he listens! (Laughs.)" *He's divine and simple - by Subhash Ghai* " When we were working on Bombay, the mixing was being held up since the background score was not ready. For three days, Rahman sat in his studio from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., but nothing would work. He needed to deliver a score which would bind the film, but was having a creative block. There was some tension. He tried fiddling around with the theme he had composed, but nothing worked. So we would sit and chat for hours about things other than [image: http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/5051/4343/320/878586/cov8_small.jpg]<http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/5051/4343/1600/906023/cov8_small.jpg> music. We decided not to work on the fourth day. At 10 p.m. he invited me over to his place. We sat chatting again, but this time I felt there was something which had not been there on the other days. He said, "Let's go into the studio." The theme was played again. He said, "Let's put lyrics into it and let's have a song." That was absolutely brilliant. We had a lyrical rendition of the background score. Rahman must have been truly inspired to do that. I remember another instance connected with Bombay. We had recorded Hariharan for the Uyire song picturised on Arvind Swamy and I was mixing it. As we had used a lot of electronics, I was cleaning up the track of all breathing sounds and 'dirt'. When Rahman heard it, the first thing he said was, "There is something missing." I told him about my cleaning exercise and he said, "What the song needs is a lot of air." So I put all the 'dirt' back, and truly the song had much more life especially since it was picturised against the beautiful forts and sea. With my cleaning I had taken the life out of the song! Even now I get goose bumps when I think about it. Rahman is humble and very generous with money. He hates to see people suffer. I think his philosophy is that people should derive happiness from his music, even if it is a sad tune. He has this tremendous need to be perfect. Of course, we also differ in our views; I criticise his music if I feel it lacks his signature and this irritates him sometimes." Regards, Shah Navas
