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04
2010
Mani Ratnam and Big Pictures have officially launched the teaser trailer of their ambitious Raavan. It is a 40 second awesome teaser trailer meant for the audio launch of the film on April 24.
The first look of Abhishek Bachchan taking a dive from top of a cliff into a river below and him riding a bike and
Aiswarya Rai’s face with fear written all over is the visual.
The Tamil and Telugu Raavanan teaser trailer will be released only close to its audio launch.
T- Series have acquired the Hindi audio rights of the film, which has music by AR Rahman. T-Series, president- marketing media publishing Vinod Bhanushali said: “It is a magnum project which brings together the winning combination of Mani Ratnam and A R Rahman. The film’s star cast is also quite an attraction.”
Meanwhile the Tamil and Telugu audio rights negotiations are going on, with Sony Music emerging as the front runners. As soon as the deal is firmed up, Raavanan audio launch in Tamil and Telugu will take place probably in May.
The soundtrack of the movie will be done by A. R. Rahman with lyrics by Gulzar. According to unofficial sources, Rahman has reused two songs he composed for the shelved Aamir Khan film Lajjo and a Qawwali composed for Jodhaa Akbar which was not used in the film. There are also reports that Mani Ratnam recently shot a big budget song Kata Kata Mara Mara with 500 dancers in Jhansi, Madhya Pradesh.
“A huge set was created in Jhansi to shoot this song which took four days to wrap up and has been choreographed by Ganesh Acharya,” says a Unit hand.Asha Bhonsle have recently recorded a song for Raavan. A song titled Pairon Pe Jannat Hai sung by Lucky Ali has leaked through the internet and is listed as a song from Raavan. However Rahman claimed that no songs have leaked from Raavana. He also denied the news that Aishwarya Rai has recorded a song titled Kadhale(in Tamil version) for the film.
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04
2010
I often meet couples who got married with my music,” says AR Rahman. “Or young actresses who tell me that when they were girls, their mothers would put them to bed by playing my music.” Rahman is a huge star in his native India. Huge. His work on scoring more than 100 movies has produced sales of more than 100m records and over 200m cassettes, making him the only Asian in the 
list of the world’s top 25 best selling recording artists. Time magazine, who dubbed him “the Mozart of Madras”, placed him in its list of the world’s 100 most influential people last year. He’s won numerous awards, both in India and further afield, but it was last year’s Oscar win, for his work on Slumdog Millionaire, that really changed things.
“Everyone dreams of winning an Oscar,” he says. “It gave my work a new level of recognition and legitimacy.” Rahman’s gongs, for best song and best score, made him only the third Indian to win an Academy award. The success of Slumdog Millionare brought other advantages – “I had the chance to meet some of my great heroes,” says Rahman. “I got to meet Barbra Streisand and work with Celine Dion, and I was the first Indian to perform at the Hollywood Bowl.”
Today we’re a long way from Los Angeles, in his north London base, a house near Hampstead Heath. Rahman has been visiting and working in the UK for the last 15 years, and later this month will attend the Southbank Centre’s Alchemy Festival (“exploring the culture of India, its diaspora and its relationship to the UK today”), at which the London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform some of his best-known works – from his Oscar-winning soundtrack of course, but also from the likes of Elizabeth: the Golden Age, the hit musical Bollywood Dreams, and some of his landmark Indian films, such as Lagaan and Jaane Tu … Ya Jaane Na.
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