AR Rahman to receive Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award on October 26

Academy Award-winning music composer AR Rahman will be honoured with the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award in Mumbai on October 26.

The fifth Hridaynath Award will be conferred on Rahman by veteran filmmaker Subhash Ghai on the birth anniversary of Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, the late younger brother of legendary playback singers Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle.

The first Hridaynath award was given to Lata. Asha, megastar Amitabh Bachchan and actress Sulochana Tai have also been its recipients. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was feted with the fourth such honour and last year it was presented to legendary actress Sulochana Tai.

In 2009, 48-year-old Rahman won the Oscar award for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, sharing with lyricist Gulzar, for his work in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. The singer-composer has also won four National Awards in a career spanning over two decades. 

AR Rahman composes a signature tune for Mumbai Film Festival

Oscar-winning music director AR Rahman has extended his support to the 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival by composing a special signature tune for it. 

A statement issued by AR Rahman said, “The 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival is about creating, celebrating and nurturing cinema. I am very pleased to support the festival. I hope the people of Mumbai and India come and partake in this incredible movie feast.”

The festival director is Anupama Chopraand she said that they were honoured to have Rahman as part of the film festival. In a statement to made to the press, she said, “Movies and music are inseparable in India. We are grateful for his generosity and support. We are also grateful to all the work put in by Vikramaditya Motwane and his team, and all the talent that made time for Jio MAMI.”

The signature tune will be used for the promotional film that they are making. This film will feature many prominent film people including Kiran Rao, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Kangana Ranaut and Nimrat Kaur. It will be directed by Vikramaditya Motwane. The MAMI film festival is from October 29 to November 5.

AR Rahman to Join Pele During Kolkata Tour

Kolkata: Brazilian football great Pele will be joined by Academy and Grammy award-winning Indian musician AR Rahman during his three-day sojourn in Kolkata, organisers said here on Thursday.

The Mozart of Madras, who's composing music for the three-time World Cup winner's biopic 'Pele: Birth of a Legend', has confirmed that he would join him in the 'Legend's Tour of India', Satadru Dutta, chief strategist of Multicon Group who are one of the organisers said.

Rahman will join Pele, former India captain Sourav Ganguly and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in the Legends Night to be held at Netaji Indoor Stadium on October 12 and also be part of the programmes lined up in the next day.

"Rahman showed keen interest to meet Pele on the sidelines of his visit to Kolkata. He may be discussing about the upcoming biopic. Rahman will also be singing the happy birthday jingle ahead of his birthday on October 23. We're all looking forward to it," Dutta said. (Pele Likely to Meet Ganguly and Tendulkar)

Pele is scheduled to arrive on October 11 morning and will conclude his sojourn two days later by being the guest of honour at ISL defending champions Atletico de Kolkata's first home outing which is against Kerala Blasters FC.

A R Rahman has created magic with Tamasha songs: Mohit Chauhan

Singer Mohit Chauhan, who has sung a song for “Tamasha”, says Oscar winning composer A.R. Rahman has lent his Midas touch to the music album of the Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone starrer. ”I have sung a song in ‘Tamasha’. It’s a beautiful song and he (Rahman) has created magic in the songs of the film, as he does every time,” Mohit said on the sidelines of a song recording for the film “Once Upon A Time In Bihar”. 

Chauhan, whose first brush with success came with the song “Dooba Dooba” from the band Silk Route’s album “Boondein”, became the voice of Ranbir’s character in “Rockstar”, which was helmed by Imtiaz Ali, who’s also directing “Tamasha”. Rahman was also the common link in “Rockstar”. But Chauhan says “Rockstar” was a different story.

“It was a narration of a singer’s life, so it had to be one voice. But in ‘Tamasha’, I have only one song. I hope when song of ‘Tamasha’ will come, audience will like it,” he said.

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