The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share
I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But then once you start working, you forget all that and you start enjoying what you're doing. Once you enjoy the process, you know that people are going to do the same thing. If you don't enjoy it and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging.… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
![“Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to…” quote by A. R. Rahman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/a-r-rahman-4481_cutting_since-i-worked-with-danny-boyle-before-o_539.jpg)
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