<p>It took six months for A R Rahman to understand the kind of score that renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi wanted for his upcoming film “Muhammad”.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Rahman and Majidi have collaborated for the first time and it was an entirely new experience for the Oscar-winner to work with Majidi.<br /><br />All the directors that I have worked with know my working style and music, they have seen me for 20-25 years now... But Majidi did not understand what I did, he knew nothing about me.<br /><br />“So if I played some tune, he would be like ‘What’s this?’. It took me a while, a couple of sessions, to understand what he was expecting of me. Then I asked him what else he liked. I made him listen to other people’s work. On that basis, I made a list of his preference and that’s how I gauged his taste and what he wanted,” Rahman said during the screening of documentary Jai Ho.<br /><br />The Grammy-winner, however, loved working with Majidi and it was a wish come true for him to have the chance to be a part of Iranian film.<br /><br />Majidi is known for directing internationally acclaimed films like Children of Heaven, The Color of Paradise and Baran.<br /><br />“I have always been fascinated by Iranian cinema, in fact, any cinema that is outside India because they have boundaries and they do such beautiful work within those boundaries. I always wanted to work there (Iran) but work schedules did not give me time to do that,” he told PTI.<br /><br />When asked which was his favourite music among all the Oscar nominees this year, Rahman said, “My favourite was definitely ‘Whiplash’ because that’s one kind of <br />music where very few people relate to and that is jazz music. They still made people watch the movie. Long back, Carnatic music had that kind of feature.”<br /><br />Rahman, 48, who has composed score for a host of foreign movies like China’s <br />Warriors of Heaven and Earth, Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours, among others, said he always had a global vision for his music.<br /><br />“It always occurred to me that why couldn’t we make music that could be heard internationally. If we can listen to their music here, why can’t they listen to ours. I used to wonder why we weren’t going global with our music,” he said.</p>
<p>It took six months for A R Rahman to understand the kind of score that renowned Iranian director Majid Majidi wanted for his upcoming film “Muhammad”.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Rahman and Majidi have collaborated for the first time and it was an entirely new experience for the Oscar-winner to work with Majidi.<br /><br />All the directors that I have worked with know my working style and music, they have seen me for 20-25 years now... But Majidi did not understand what I did, he knew nothing about me.<br /><br />“So if I played some tune, he would be like ‘What’s this?’. It took me a while, a couple of sessions, to understand what he was expecting of me. Then I asked him what else he liked. I made him listen to other people’s work. On that basis, I made a list of his preference and that’s how I gauged his taste and what he wanted,” Rahman said during the screening of documentary Jai Ho.<br /><br />The Grammy-winner, however, loved working with Majidi and it was a wish come true for him to have the chance to be a part of Iranian film.<br /><br />Majidi is known for directing internationally acclaimed films like Children of Heaven, The Color of Paradise and Baran.<br /><br />“I have always been fascinated by Iranian cinema, in fact, any cinema that is outside India because they have boundaries and they do such beautiful work within those boundaries. I always wanted to work there (Iran) but work schedules did not give me time to do that,” he told PTI.<br /><br />When asked which was his favourite music among all the Oscar nominees this year, Rahman said, “My favourite was definitely ‘Whiplash’ because that’s one kind of <br />music where very few people relate to and that is jazz music. They still made people watch the movie. Long back, Carnatic music had that kind of feature.”<br /><br />Rahman, 48, who has composed score for a host of foreign movies like China’s <br />Warriors of Heaven and Earth, Oscar-winner Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours, among others, said he always had a global vision for his music.<br /><br />“It always occurred to me that why couldn’t we make music that could be heard internationally. If we can listen to their music here, why can’t they listen to ours. I used to wonder why we weren’t going global with our music,” he said.</p>
