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A few years ago, A R Rahman was appointed as the United Nations’ ambassador to spread awareness about the Millennium Development Goals. Thus the idea of an anthem to promote the message took shape. Rahman then teamed up with his singer friend Blaaze to develop the anthem and thus was born ‘ Pray For Me Brother’. As they worked on the song, Rahman realised that ‘Pray For Me Brother’ could play a much larger role, one that could spread the message of peace, love, brotherhood, caring & humanity and alleviate suffering & poverty.

This also inspired Rahman to initiate the A R Rahman Foundation. Here is an opportunity to spread the word about the A.R.Rahman Foundation and contribute to it as well. A series of 9 coloring books for children, based on the theme of Pray For Me Brother are being released over next year. The first book was released by ARR at the Delhi concert. This is an entirely non-profit venture and all proceeds from the sales of these books will go the Foundation.

The books are priced at Rs. 100/- each. Here is how you can contribute to this effort.

The top-notch music director A R Rahman has taken the Indian music to world standards. He proved himself in Tamil industry as well as in Hindi film industry. Rehana’s Rahamaniya on Aahaa FM is about brother A R Rahman, the ‘Mozart from Madras’.

“I interview people who have worked with him. I speak about Rahman’s songs, their uniqueness and incidents in our family,” says Rehana, Rahman’s elder sibling, who has composed music for Machi.

Her popular songs include Malae Malae Marudhamala from Choklet and Balleilakka from Sivaji The Boss. “Rahman’s songs are classy and people also expect me to do like. I am waiting for a good opportunity. I get offer to sing vulgar songs. I don’t like it and just walk off the studio,” says Rehana, “Two films are in my pipeline,” she explains.

After recording one of the most important songs for Sivaji, the Rajnikanth-produced Tamil film, composer AR Rahman invited the director of the film Shankar to listen to it. Shankar, who has worked with Rahman on several films, could of course instantly recognize veteran singer SP Balasubrahmanyam (SPB) in the song Balleilakka.. “But who is the female singer?” he asked.