And how!Īlready, Rahman has 13 Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a Bafta, a Golden Globe and two Academy Awards to go with his most recent double-win at the Grammys for Slumdog Millionaire’s music. Sharada introduced Rahman to her cousin (Mani Ratnam) who was so impressed that he signed him for Roja (1992). While attending an awards function to recognise excellence in the field of advertising, he chanced upon the self-effacing Rahman, who had just won the award for best jingle for Sharada Trilok’s commercial for Leo Coffee. In 1991, Mani Ratnam, one of India’s top directors, was looking for a new music composer. Let’s attempt an impossibly quick look at the long list of achievements in a remarkably prolific and mostly brilliant career. Dileep Kumar became Allah Rakha Rahman, who went on to become one of India’s foremost film music composers, popularly known as AR Rahman. The awards for the ‘Best compilation soundtrack album’ and the ‘Best song written for motion picture’ at the Grammys this year went to Dileep Kumar? Dileep who?īorn on 6 January 1966, Dileep Kumar and family converted to Islam in 1989 (his mother Kareema Begum is a Muslim). Mani Ratnam chanced upon him at a function to recognise excellence in the field of advertising.
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