A R Rahman - Discography(Not Complete)

Films
YEAR Tamil Telugu Hindi Malayalam Marathi English Mandarin
1992 Roja Roja Roja (1994) Roja Roja
1992 Ashokan (1993) Yoddha (1995) Dharam Yodha (1993) Yodha
1993 Uzhavan
1993 Thiruda Thiruda, Donga Donga, Chor Chor (1996)
1993 Pudhiya Mugam Padmavyuham Vishwa Vidhatha (1997)
1993 Gentleman Gentleman
1994 Vandicholai Chinnaraasu Bobili Paparayudu
1994 Super Police Super Police Khel Khiladi Ka (1996)
1994 Pudhiya Mannargal
1994 Pavithra
1994 May Madham Hridayaanjali (1999)
1994 Kizhakku Cheemayile Palnati Pourusham
1994 Karuththamma Vanitha/Osey Krishnamma
1994 Kadhalan Premikudu (1995) Humse Hai Muqabla
1994 Duet Duet Tu Hi Mera Dil
1995 Indira Indira Priyanka
1995 Bombay Bombay Bombay
1994 Manitha Manitha Gang Master
1995 Rangeela Rangeli Rangeela
1995 Muthu Muthu (1995) Muthu Maharaja (2001)
1996 Love Birds Love Birds Love Birds
1996 Indian Bharateeyudu Hindustani
1996 Kadhal Desam Prema Desam Duniya Dilwalon Ki
1996 Fire Fire
1996 Mr Romeo Mr Romeo Mr Romeo (1997)
1996 Anthimantharai
1997 Minsara Kanavu Merupu Kalalu Sapnay
1997 Iruvar Iddaru
1997 Ottam (non-film) 50-50 Daud: Fun On The Run
1997 Ratchagan Rakshakudu
1997 Mona Lisa Kabhi Na Kabhi
1997 Vishwa Vidhaata
1998 Jeans Jeans Jeans
1998 Uyire Prematho.. Dil Se..
1998 1947/Earth
1998 Doli Saja Ke Rakhna
1999 En Swasa Kaatre Premante Pranamistha
1999 Jodi Jodi
1999 Padaiyappa Narasimha
1999 Taalam Taal
1999 Thakshak
1999 Kadhalar Dhinam Premikula Roju Dil Hi Dil Mein
1999 Pukar
1999 Sangamam
1999 Taj Mahal
1999 Mudhalvan Oke Okkadu Nayak
2000 Alai Payuthey Sakhi Sathiya 2002
2000 Kandukondain Kandukondain Priyuralu Pilichindi
2000 Rhythm Rhythm/Jeevithamma Chirunavva
2000 Thenali Tenali
2000 Zubeidaa
2001 One 2 Ka 4
2001 Love You Hamesha
2001 Star
2001 Lagaan
2001 Paarthale Paravasam Paravasam
2001 Nayak
2001 Alli Arjuna
2002 Kannathil Muthamittal Amrutha
2002 The Legend of Bhagat Singh
2002 Baba Baba
2002 Kadhal Virus
2002 Saathiya
2003 Udhaya
2003 Parasuram Police Kartavyam
2003 Boys Boys
2003 Warriors of Heaven and Earth
2003 Enakku 20 Unakku 18 Nee Manasu Naaku Telusu
2003 Kangalal Kaidhu Sei
2003 Tehzeeb
2004 Lakeer
2004 Meenaxi - A Tale of 3 Cities
2004 Ayutha Ezhuthu Yuva Yuva
2004 New Naani
2004 Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa (3 out of 8 songs)
2004 Desam Swades
2004 Kisna - The Warrior Poet (6 out of 16 tracks)
2005 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
2005 The Rising - Ballad of Mangal Pandey
2005 Ah Aah (Anbe Aaruyire/Best Friend)
2005 Water
2006 Rang De Basanti
2006 Godfather
2006 Provoked
2006 Sivaji: The Boss Sivaji: The Boss (2006)
2006 Jillunu Oru Kaadhal Nuvvu Nennu Prema (2006)
2006 Dasavatharam
2006 Akbar-Jodha
2006 London Dreams
2006 Guru (2006) Guru (2006) Guru

Note: "Year" indicates the year the earliest version of any multi-language movie was released. Movies with the year next to the title dictates that the film was either dubbed or released later than the original version of the movie.

* The films Nayak (2001, Hindi) and Saathiya (2002, Hindi) were remakes of the films Mudhalvan (1999, Tamil) and Alai Payuthey (2000, Tamil), respectively. The soundtracks were reused with changes and additional songs.

* A. R. Rahman has also composed the score for the film Warriors of Heaven and Earth/Tian di ying xiong (2003, Mandarin)

* He has contributed one song to Fiza (1999, Hindi).

* The soundtracks of the films Roja (1992) and Gentleman (1993), were also released as instrumental versions.

The following films had soundtracks reused from previous albums:

* Vishwa Vidhaata (1997, Hindi) from Pudhiya Mugam (1993, Tamil)
* Jodi (1999, Tamil) from Doli Saja Ke Rakhna (1999, Hindi), with 3 new songs added
* Love You Hamesha (2001, Hindi) from May Madham (1994, Tamil)
* Star (2001, Tamil) from Thakshak (1999, Hindi - 3 songs) and 1947/Earth (1998, Hindi - 1 song), with 1 new song added
* Thakshak (1999, Hindi) from En Swaasa Kaatre (1999, Tamil) 1 song (Jumbalaka), with changes in vocals and instrumentation
* Pukar (1999, Hindi) from En Swaasa Kaatre (1999, Tamil) 1 song ('Kay Sera Sera' from 'Nayagara'), with changes in vocals and instrumentation
* Song "Dekho Na" from movie Swades (2004, Hindi) reused from the song "Baba Kichchu Tha" from movie Baba (2002, Tamil) with different vocals and instrumentation

The soundtrack of Nicolas Cage's Lord Of War (2005), features the instrumental piece "Bombay Theme" from the Tamil film Bombay, directed by Mani Ratnam.

The soundtrack of Spike Lee's Inside Man (2006), features the song
"Chaiyya Chaiyya" from the Hindi film Dil Se, directed by Mani Ratnam.

Non-film

* Return of the Thief of Baghdad (Yet to be released) (2003)
* Deen Isai Maalai (1989) as AS Dilip Kumar
* Set Me Free (1991)
* Vande Mataram (1997)
* Jana Gana Mana (2000)
* Bombay Dreams (2002) (Musical)
* Ignited Minds (2003) (Unreleased but performed in live concert)
* Raga's Dance (2004) (for Vanessa Mae's album called Choreography)

A R Rahman - Music Career

In 1991, Rahman began his own studio (attached to his house), called the Panchathan Record Inn. He initially composed music for use in advertisements, the title music on popular Indian Television channels and music in documentaries, among other projects. Rahman was, at first, hesitant about composing music for the Indian film industry primarily because most film makers at the time used songs as "fillers" - a means by which the audience was given a break from the movie's plot. In 1991 he was approached by film director Mani Ratnam, who offered Rahman the job as composer of music for his upcoming film Roja, at a price of Rs. 25,000. Rahman accepted, and the movie's superhit debut made him a household name in Tamil Nadu virtually overnight and led Rahman to receive the Rajat Kamal award for best music director at the Indian National Film Awards, the first time ever by a debutant. Rahman has
since then gone on to win the award 3 more times (for Minsaara Kanavu (Electric Dreams, Tamil) in 1997, Lagaan (Tax, Hindi) in 2002 and Kannathil Muthamittal (A Peck on the Cheek, Tamil) in 2003), the most ever by any composer.

A.R. Rahman combined the usage of technology and music. He has been successful in creating his own style of composition by a symbiosis of the best elements of technology and Indian classical instruments. However some critics allege that he makes excessive usage of technology in his music.

When Rahman arrived onto the Indian music scene with his first film Roja, the music industry in India was going through a crisis with the retirement of older music composers and the lack of innovation in Indian film music. Roja was a massive hit, and Rahman followed it up with a number of other extremely popular films, including Bombay, Rangeela, Dil Se and Taal . The huge sales of these albums prompted movie producers to take film music more seriously.
Another point worth noting is that while Ilayaraaja brought western music in Indian Instruments, A.R.Rahman pioneered the art of composing Indian classical Carnatic and Hindustani music and using western Instruments to play those tunes.

Rahman's work is also unique in the fact that his collaborations with a few movie directors have always resulted in hugely successful albums. In particular, he has worked with Mani Ratnam on eight movies (until 2004) (see list of movies by Mani Ratnam featuring A R Rahman), all of which have been musical superhits. Also notable is his collaboration with the director S. Shankar (Gentleman, Kadhalan, Indian, Jeans, Mudhalvan, Nayak and Boys). Lord Lloyd-Webber with A.R. Rahman Lord Lloyd-Webber with A.R. Rahman He made an album Vande Mataram (1996) on India's national song. Recently, he also came up with an album called Jana gana mana, a huge conglomeration of performances by all the leading exponents/artists of Indian classical music.

His latest work includes Mani Ratnams's Yuva, Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities, Bose - The Forgotten Hero, Swades, Mangal Pandey - The Rising and Rang De Basanti. He is currently working on Mani Ratnam's next venture Guru, and on one of Shyam Benegal's most expensive ventures, undisclosed so far, which is set for release in the spring of 2006.

International accolades

Andrew Lloyd Webber, a well known composer of musicals, was impressed with Rahman's unique style and therefore hired him to compose his maiden stage production Bombay Dreams (2002). This play was well received in England and opened him up to new vistas in Hollywood. Currently (as of May 2004) Rahman, along with the Finnish folk music
band Värttinä, is composing for The Lord of the Rings musical, set to open in Toronto on March 23, 2006.

Rahman received more international attention with this article in the TIME magazine. Rahman's first movie album "Roja" was listed in TIME magazine's TOP 10 Movie Soundtracks of all time; source. According to
BBC Rahman is reported to have sold 100 million records world-wide.

In 2000, Rahman's annual income was estimated to be around $4 million from worldwide endorsements and royalties dating back to Roja (1992). According to Rediff.com, rights for his Tamil album Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) were sold for an astonishing record sum of Rs. 22 million! This record still remains unbeaten six years hence.
In addition to influencing western audiences, Rahman also impressed eastern audiences with his music so much that he was tapped by Chinese director He Ping to provide music for the Chinese film Warriors of Heaven and Earth in 2003 IMDB. The music of this film was very much appreciated in Asia and in India.

Awards and nominations

A.R. Rahman has won the following awards:

* 1993, National Film Award for Best Music Direction, Roja
* 1995, Filmfare Best Music Director Award, Rangeela
* 1997, National Film Award for Best Music Direction, Minsaara Kanavu
* 1998, Filmfare Best Music Director Award, Dil Se
* 2000, Filmfare Best Music Director Award, Taal
* 2000, Zee Cine Award Best Music Director, Taal
* 2002, Zee Cine Award Best Music Director, Lagaan
* 2002, Filmfare Best Music Director Award, Lagaan
* 2002, National Film Award for Best Music Direction, Lagaan
* 2002, Filmfare Best Music Director Award, Saathiya
* 2003, National Film Award for Best Music Direction, Kannathil Muthamittal

* 9 South Indian Filmfare Awards
* 6 Times Tamil Nadu State Film Awards

A.R Rahman has been nominated for the following awards:

* 2003, Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical, Bombay Dreams

A R Rahman - Introduction

Allah Rakha Rahman (born on January 6, 1967 as A.S. Dileep Kumar in
Chennai, India) is a popular Indian film music composer. He is a native
Tamilian. He made his debut in 1992 with Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie,
Roja (Rose), which was subsequently dubbed into many languages. Ram
Gopal Verma's Rangeela (Colorful) (1995) was the first Hindi movie to
have Rahman as the music director. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri.
Early years

Rahman is the only son of R. K. Sekhar, who was an arranger and
conductor for Malayalam films. His father died when Rahman was nine
years old, and his family used to rent out musical equipment to make
ends meet, something they found very difficult. During those hard
times, a Sufi (Muslim) saint helped them spiritually. This led him to
convert to Islam.

At the age of 11, Rahman joined the troupe of Indian composer Ilayaraja
as a keyboardist. He later played on the orchestra of M.S. Vishwanathan
and Ramesh Naidu, and accompanied Zakir Hussain and Kunnakudi
Vaidyanathan on world tours. The experience allowed him to obtain a
scholarship to the Trinity College at Oxford University, where he
received a degree in Western classical music.

Guru Movie.....

Guru movie trailer...

Banyan Theme by ARR

A.R.Rahman's theme music for The Banyan, an institution for destitute and differently-abled women in Chennai.

ARR intro on super singer.....

Participants on Channel [V]'s talent show Super Singer are stunned to discover that their judge for the final rounds is none other than music genius A.R.Rahman

ARRahman Videos

The maestro at Toronto in an interview before the opening of the Lord Of The Rings

Some more photos.........

Beautiful Srilanka

Comments are welcome. If you need full size image for your desktop, place your e-mail add in comments, I'll send it to you.

Munbe vaa en anbe vaa - Sillunu oru kaadhal

This is the greatest hit of 2006. I never came across these kind of melody in my lifetime. Musically, lyrically, Vocally everything was perfect. Another greatest work of ARR.

This song is like falling in love with someone who you really doesn't like. When you first hear this it's like some masala mix of music. But when you continue listening to it few times you'll really fall in love. I'll bet you.


Chord progression is simple one,
A#m, F#, G#, Fm

This is for the first verse. But the second verse changes a little bit. I'll post it in a while.

Long live ARR - The trendsetter

New York Nagaram - Chords

Music - ARR, Sung by the maestro himself.

This song takes you to a world in which you live alone, with no distubance of other human beings. Just listen to the music. You'll float like a kite in the sky. Only the genius can do these stuffs. A great song i ever heard.

The chord progression of this song is really simple.
Am, F, C, G
You can manage the whole song with these chords. Some chords change in the interlude. The guitar rhythm is a big plus for the song. Pattern is little bit difficult. It goes like this,

D - Downstroke
U - Upstroke

D D D DUD DD

But this is not the accurate one.

Try it out and let me know.

Long live ARR - The trendsetter

Remix Culture

A veteran reporter condems ARR for remixing an old song - Behindwoods

The reporter was Major Dasan. He condemned ARR for remixing the song Thottal Poo Malarum.

This is silly. Remixes are really important to introduce the old songs to the younger generation. Younger generation is not interested in old songs.

There are great old songs. But youngsters are not exposed to old songs. Because you can't search the old hits and the recording was poor in quality. So they don't take any interest in those songs. But remixes can introduce those songs to youngsters as well as it gives rebirth to that particular song. Even elderely people like remix.

Remix doesn't misses the actual essence of the song. The actual raaga or the lyrics are not altered. They mix the old stuffs with the new technology and latest styles. Because latest styles reach most parts of the world. So it gives a re-introduction to the song all over the world.

Many remix albums are done in tamil. But when it is used in the film it reaches many tamil people.

Here is a list of remixes,

Tottal poo malarum - New - ARR
Aasai nooru vitham - Kurumbu - Yuvan
Thiruttuppayale - Thiruttuppayale -
Nee muttham onru kodutthal - Pokkiri - Manisharma (The actual lyrics are changed but still has the flavour of old one)
Vasaantha mullai - Pokkiri - Manisharma

Keep on adding guys......

Ninaivugal – HillShake

It looks like a song created by HillShake labeled Ninaivugal. In fact this is what I want you to think. Yes it is. This song is created by me and two of my friends. We call HillShake our self. We couldn’t even imagine how this happened.

I created some music samples back in 2004 for King. We both dreamt of making songs. But we couldn’t do it as we thought. It took some time to come true. Later that year we found another person with the same hunger. That is Praveen. The trio aimed at many projects but nothing happened.

However in 2006 around June the hunger stroke more intensely, which lead us to pick a track from the older samples and complete a track. This great idea came from the brains of King, who is the writer and singer. So the trio gathered in my home and we started to mould our dream project. We completed writing the song and the music track. The only thing left is voice recording and mixing.

King found a studio in Colombo. Without any experience the trio went to the studio. We had no practice not even seen a studio before. This is a strange experience. New place, new people, we didn’t know who will be in the studio etc.

The studio is in the 4^th floor of a building in Kolpitiya. Climbed the stairs. Knocked a door. “Is this a studio”. “Yes of course. Can I help you?” We introduced ourselves and explained the purpose. “Sorry, this is a photo studio”, the girl answered. Next we climbed another floor. There we identified our studio. Went in. A man came from inside. I peeped through the door to see whether this is the right place. Of course it is.

We sat in the sitting room for about half an hour without knowing what is going to happen next. Only thing that came to our mind was finish the work before 4 and get the bus to home. In between it is blank.

They called us into the room. Familiar equipments such as keyboard, computer, mixer etc. A sound proof chamber in opposite side. We started building the tracks. The sound engineer was really helpful. It took about two hours to finish. The next work is to record our voices. King looked at me, I looked at Praveen, King looked at Praveen. Praveen understood what we are about to say. Went into the chamber. Started singing his part. First take, little bit shake in his voice. 2^nd quite okay. 3^rd one really good. 4^th perfect. Finalized. He sang like an experienced singer. Then King did his recording. And then me.

Then editing and mixing done by the sound engineer. We couldn’t believe that song was created by us. The studio owner himself a singer and performer, gave good acknowledgments.

The song was completed and as we thought we got the bus. We enjoyed that journey. We cannot forget that journey. That is our happiest journey we ever had together. With a successful song in hand, we’re anxious about the comments.

To be continued………..

Research on music...

A research has been conducted by the University of Yale regarding the connection between music and anesthetics that are used during surgery.

Three groups were identified. One group didn't hear any sounds. One group heard operooting room sounds and another group heard good music.

It was found that the group who are exposed to music needed only 30% less IV sedatives, that is anesthetic drug. This is, in medical point of view, due to increased flow of endorphins which reduces the pain.

Guru music review......

The latest album done ARR. A grand openning for year 2007. All songs are melodious and has the potential to become greatest hits.

Most admired song by me is baazi laga..........
it's great......
It has a touch of old hindi songs, I mean the instrumentation, scale, rhythm etc. It has the potential to top the charts. ARR is a genius in using the instruments in right place. The main highlight is the use of accordian(or harmonium, not sure). This song is a great one for ARR fans this year.

I heard that ay hairathe toping the charts. It is one of the greatest melody. Hariharan's vocals are used really well by the maestro. Only ARR finds the proper singers for the songs. This song suits Hariharan well. Just close your eyes and listen to this song, you'll surely float in hte air.

review to be continued...........

Trend in western music

These days the trend in western music is changing. It doesn't really mean western music. western music is a discipline. but i really mean the styles derived from western music. such as pop, rap, hip hop, rock, metal etc.

Early days pop music had it's own features as well as rock also had it's own features. And mainly the music is more complicated. that means the scale, prgression and rhythm are really complicated. another guitarist or pianinst find it difficult to find the chords. it's kind of a challenge between the composer and the listener.

but now the music is quite simple. an average pianinst or a guitarist can find the chords for the song. that is the music is not so complicated. they make it very simple. it is really nice to hear that music.

Hi

This is my blogspot....
this is my first ever blog....

I'm a big fan of arrahman.

He's the man who rulez the indian music.

I wish him happy birthday. his birthday is on 6/1.