Sunday, July 18, 2010

FACTS ABOUT A.R.RAHMAN

*A R Rahman records most of the songs in the late night because he belives that is the time at which a person’s sound will be at it’s top best.

*Rahman allows singers to sing there own versions of the song separately and chooses best among them.

*There are more than 1000 samples available in Sony and Apple.

*Rahman has used a ghatam loop in the Rang de Basanti background score from Apple’s loop library. The same loop been used elsewhere. But it sounded a lot better the way Rahman used it.

*The song “Maiyya Maiyya” has a flute interlude in the beginning similar to the one in Anu Malik’s “San Sanana” song in Asoka. The flute sample in Mayya Mayya is a commercially available sample. Both the Asoka song and Mayya Mayya have been arranged and programmed by Ranjit Barot.

*Chinna Chinna Asai was composed as a ‘sad’ full song initially but later was changed to a happy song.

*ARR first composed only the first stanza of “Tu hi Re” song for Bombay. Later Mani Ratnam shot the song and after feeling confident of the song, Rahman completed the composition.

*Thiruda Thiruda and Duet took most time in composing followed by Box-office Flop Mangal Pandey.

*Maiyya Maiyya was recorded in Toronto and music was added later as usual.

*In Thiruda thiruda there are two special songs in it. One is Konchum Nilavu which is fully computer programmed. Another is Rasathi where you can’t hear a single instrument.

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