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Soon Rahman added commissions for Hindi (Bollywood) films to his workload. In songs for Ratnam's Bombay and Dil Se, and for the Hindi films Vishwavidhaata, Taal and Lagaan, he created a body of work unparalleled, at least in the '90s, for ravishing melodic ingenuity. "I wanted to produce film songs," he says, "that go beyond language or culture." They went beyond India too. As Western film cultists discovered India's pop cinema, they realized that along with the ferocious emoting and delirious dances, there was a master composer--the man Indians call the Mozart of Madras...
...Rahman worked with Ratnam on two more movies but by then was already trying to cope with a flood of offers from Bombay, capital of the Hindi film industry. Lloyd Webber heard of him three years ago while dining with Bombay-based director Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth and Bandit Queen) to discuss a screen version of The Phantom of the Opera. Kapur played a selection of Indian movie music to break the ice. According to Rahman, "Andrew would stop every now and then and ask, 'Who is this composer?' And every time he did that, it was me." Kapur called Rahman...
...shows scant comprehension of economics or international affairs, and seems entirely out of touch with the galloping high-tech industry that's driving the economy. She refuses to respond to personal attacks over her foreign birth, or to make any of her own. She has learned a halting Hindi, but her improving fluency only highlights her failure to spell out any vision for the nation, prompting the joke that she is inarticulate in three languages. And experience has failed to make her a more inspired political player. At a rally last month in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh...
...raised strictly Indian, with the standards and cultural values to match. But among my high school friends, my “Indianness” was, more than anything else, a source of amusing stories about strict parents and endless weddings, and the justification for sitting through a four-hour Hindi movie...
...other schools, you see a lot of Hindi psalm after Hindi psalm. We try very specifically to make sure that we have different regions of the Subcontinent represented,” she said...