A huge crowd had gathered to attend music maestro Rahman's live concert held at Raja Bahadur Mills in Pune.
'Hindi imposition' as members of Tamil Nadu's leading DMK party call it, has faced revived opposition after a series of local incidents.
From Hindustani classical music training at age four to becoming an internet sensation with over a million followers and making a breakthrough career start playback singing for AR Rahman on a Mani Ratnam magnum opus, here’s the Antara Nandy interview.
The MM Keeravaani composition, with Chandrabose's lyrics, Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava's singing, beat stars Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Mitski and Academy favourite Diane Warren, to join AR Rahman’s 2009 hit 'Jai Ho' on the vanishing small list of non-English tracks to win the award.
MM Keeravani won the Oscar in the 'Best Original Song' category, beating competition from the likes of ‘Hold My Hand’ from Top Gun: Maverick, ‘This is Life’ from Everything Everywhere All At Once, ‘Applause’ from Tell It Like A Woman, and ‘Lift Me Up’ from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Oscars 2023: 'Naatu Naatu' was the first Indian song to be nominated at the Academy Awards.
'AR Rahman said, 'I want Naatu Naatu to win, I wanted them to win the Grammy also because any award for any of us is going to lift India up... and the zone, the concentration of our culture will become higher.'
He also shared his personal story as to why he has taken up this initiative to support the light man in Tamil cinema industry.
A teenaged girl turned into a crossover music sensation, bagging awards and accolades, loved by fans and fellow artistes alike, singer Shreya Ghoshal walks down the memory lane.
The contemporary musical taste of 'Sacred Games' composer Alokananda Dasgupta differed from her late father's, parallel cinema auteur Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who'd have stepped into his 80th year today, but the twain converged on AR Rahman.
"I'm in shock, but the work paid off," said Anastasiia Gubanova, dressed in a bright outfit to resemble a sari, after winning the free programme in Espoo, Finland.
AR Rahman shared an Instagram post that was a screenshot of his ballot submission. The Academy responded with heart emojis on the post.
Here are the iconic '90s-2000s Hindi-film songs of Oscar winner and Naatu Naatu composer MM Keeravani, aka MM Kreem, who was synonymous with haunting love songs in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and in Hindi in the post-RD Burman decade.
Golden Globes 2023: Twitter erupted in joy after "RRR" won a historic Golden Globe Award 2023 for the best original song motion picture for its hit track "Naatu Naatu”.
Abdu Rozik had shared a video of him performing at Khatija's wedding reception in Chennai with AR Rahman watching him from a short distance.
A R Rahman, the legendary musician, has been designated the ambassador of the British Council's 'India-UK Together Season of Culture,' which aims to foster collaboration among emerging artists.
This year, a huge contingent of Indian artistes were present at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Cannes 2022: Here's what Indian celebrities had to say about representing the country at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
India is the Official Country of Honour at Cannes Film Market (Marché du Film) in this edition of the festival and this is the first time this honour has been bestowed on any country.
Khatija Rahman, a musical artist, and sound engineer Riyasdeen Shaik Mohamed had become engaged in December.
AR Rahman made the comments after was shown a picture of himself with Will Smith. While the photo was old, some of comments on it were made after the Oscar incident.
In another short video, AR Rahman can be seen talking to the BTS members at the Grammys.
Grammys 2022: Ace musician AR Rahman posed with his son Ameen on the Grammys red carpet in Las Vegas.
Though the AR Rahman and Ilaiyaraaja have appeared on the stage together, this could possibly be their first collaboration.
Ace musician AR Rahman has won national as well as international acclaim. He won the Academy and Grammy awards in 2009 for his work in the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'.