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Foot tapping music, noisy grannies, kids bellowing, the sound of a lark at song, a saxophone used as a nadaswaram – hey what’s going on? India’s music whiz kid is composing his music, that’s what’s going on! And he has the whole of India dancing to his tunes, and if his project Bombay Dreams with Sir Andrew Llyod Webber is anything like his experience back home, will have the world at its feet too.

Just look at the statistics, over two-dozen hit film albums in three languages in just over 7 years. A top selling non- film music album. A very successful foreign concert in the Gulf and plenty more in the offing…. It’s not really hard to guess that this guy is a music genius.

The music is serious business for him though. He apparently spends unbelievable hours getting his composition right. And he experiments not only with his music but with his singers as well – feeling that “a slight defect in the singing adds a human touch”. The human touch does seem to be working for him at the moment with all his current albums – Zubeidaa , Tenali and Rhythm doing very well.

Success has not been easy for this young man though. Dropping out of school at a young age to support his family, young Rahman developed a passion for music very early in his career. The interest is perhaps hereditary – his father R.K.Sekhar was an arranger and conductor in Malayalam movies and had worked under the likes of Salil Chowdhary and Devarajan. A.R.Rahman (then Dileep) started playing the piano when he was just four years of age.

He started composing jingles, several of which were popular (Parry's, Leo Coffee, Boost featuring Sachin Tendulkar and Kapil Dev, Titan, Premier Pressure Cooker, Hero Puch and Asian Paints to name a few) while serving as a keyboard player on music maestro Illayaraja’s orchestration. In 1989, he started his own studio - Panchathan Record Inn - which is today one of India's most well equipped and advanced recording studios.

His first big break came from Mani Ratnam, one of the most renowned South Indian directors. Rahman’s composition for Mani Ratnam’s Roja took the world by storm earning him a national award and making him a star overnight. His next composition was for the soundtrack of Shankar’s debut movie Gentleman. This too achieved platinum success, placing Rahman firmly on the music directors’ hall of fame. In 1999, he composed his first non-music album, Vande Mataram for Bharat Bala’s independence series. The album was also Sony Music’s first venture into the Indian Market. “Ma Tujhe salam” and a duet on world peace with the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan became overnight bestsellers, catapulting Rahman to super star status. His music has also won him two filmfare awards in less than seven years - a record that is testimony to his genius and dedication to quality music. A lot of details on A.R.Rahman and his music is available at rahmanonline.com.

Well, he’s climbed many heights. But the man remains the same. His passion for music remains unabated as he continues to put music into millions of people’s lives everyday.