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Now, A R Rahman heads for Hollywood

Source: PTI [ WEDNESDAY, MAY 01, 2002 10:18:29 AM ]


LONDON: Bollywood music director A R Rahman is all set to go global with a couple of Hollywood offers coming his way.

Rahman, whose first musical Bombay Dreams opens at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London on June 19, told reporters here late Wednesday night that he has received a couple of Hollywood offers from Sony music.

The 35-year-old Rahman who has composed hit soundtracks for over 50 films including Oscar-nominated-Lagaan, Fiza, Taal, Earth, Dil Se, Fire and Bombay, however, declined to give details of his Hollywood ventures.

"I wanted Rahman's work to reach a new audience. It was his music which inspired the whole project," said Andrew Lloyd Webber, producer of Bombay Dreams.

The musical is based on an original idea by Shekhar Kapoor and Webber and the Bollywood dance sequences in it are directed by noted choreographer Farah Khan.

Terming his project as a "wonderful story" which would "break new grounds", Webber, the producer of many outstanding musicals like The Phantom of Opera, says "it is a story of Akaash and Priya: two lovers from different worlds, sharing one dream".