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...written music for more than 50 movies. And in an industry where the soundtrack is often considered more important than the plot, his scores have broken all records?more than 100 million of his cassettes and CDs have been sold. These days, he's so sought after that even Bollywood's deepest pockets are finding it hard to sign Rahman. Last year, he composed the martial score for Chinese director He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth. This week, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Bombay Dreams, for which Rahman wrote the music, transfers from London's West...
...India's film industry is the most prolific in the world, with about 1,000 movies made each year (compared with Hollywood's 750), and they attract a global audience of 3.6 billion?a billion more than their American cousins. But until recently, Bollywood's talents were considered too foreign to make the jump to Europe or America. A handful of Indian directors and actors are escaping that mold, and now Rahman is breaking out too. The composer has long been a musical magpie, borrowing freely from an array of traditions: South Asian, Sufi, Irish folk, rock, reggae, even ragtime...
...transfer from the West End to Broadway, the show has lost a lot of its Bollywood sass?American audiences don't know enough about Indian musicals to get the jokes?and, crucially, a half-dozen solid Rahman tunes. To compensate, there's a wet-sari dream embodied by sultry Ayesha Dharker...
...player: P: Choral pieces for my choir, Counting Crows. V: Dave Matthews Band, Madonna, Radiohead, Beatles, some random pop, lots of Bollywood songs, some classical music...
...written a dozen or so columns on Broadway musicals without getting a single e-mail. (Which won?t stop me from doing a Frank Loesser tribute one of these weeks.) Sometimes, though, I get bundles. The record-holder for TOF is the series I wrote last summer on Bollywood films. That spurred 150-200 e-mails, most of them long, knowledgeable and helpful to a passionate amateur in a huge field...