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A.R. Rahman to focus on international career
Afraid assignments in India could hamper his international career, A.R. Rahman could in future focus on the US
- IANS
- Published: 00:00 July 29, 2010
- Image Credit: Rex Features
- A.R. Rahman performing his Jai Ho Concert on the Atlantic City, US, leg of his The Journey Home World Tour.
Music composer A.R. Rahman's international career, which has taken off post Slumdog Millionaire keeps encountering snags, thanks to long-pending assignments back home.
According to sources, Rahman has to keep interrupting his international plans to be home for various pending assignments. The harried composer is now seriously thinking of putting all home-made assignments on hold to concentrate on building his career abroad, or else he feels he may lose the international advantage he obtained after Slumdog Millionaire.
Says a friend of Rahman: "The Indian assignments after Slumdog Millionaire have been very time-consuming, especially Raavan where Rahman not only had to do two versions of the music in Hindi and Tamil, but director Mani Ratnam also asked him to give three to four tunes for every lyric before one was selected. The music of Raavan took more time than Rahman could afford, with other Indian assignments, primarily Abbas Tyrewala's untitled John Abraham-Pakhi starrer, getting left behind."
‘Never take off'
Rahman is currently back in Chennai to mix the music of Tyrewala's film. But the background score of the film, which is expected to be released in October, is yet to be done. No one is admitting it, but one of the primary reasons the film itself got delayed is the music score which Rahman has not been able to concentrate on, since he was committed to be out of the country for half the year for his world concerts.
"Rahman had to continuously keep breaking his international tours and other projects to be home for various reasons. He has begun to feel that his international career would never take off if he has to keep returning home," says a source.
Tyrewala, in Chennai with Rahman for the mixing of his film's music, jumps to the composer's defence. "Yes, Rahman has been a little tied up and therefore unable to deliver quickly. But that's because he has to constantly move back and forth between India and the US.
"Raavan took much longer than Rahman thought. I'm not worried about my music. It's almost done. Whatever time Rahman takes is finally worth the while."
Meanwhile, Rahman has not signed a single new assignment in Mumbai or Chennai in the last few months. After completing Tyrewala's music, he is likely to focus on consolidating his career abroad more freely.
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