Imtiaz Ali has made a stunning remark about Oscar-winning music director AR Rahman. Imtiaz and Rahman collaborated for the first time on Rockstar in 2011. They went on to work together on several other projects, including Highway, Tamasha and Amar Singh Chamkila. Imtiaz stated in a recent roundtable discussion with Rahman, Mohit Chauhan, and Irshad Kamil that he was not happy or frightened about meeting Rahman. Instead, he approached him with a sense of responsibility.
Imtiaz Ali recalls his first meeting with AR Rahman; says, “I was not happy”
Imtiyaz said, “I was not happy, I don’t think I was nervous either. But it wasn’t as though, ‘Oh, I’m happy that I am going to meet AR Rahman’. It was just like a responsibility,” Imtiaz said, in a video released by Netflix India. “The producer, I believe, told him, ‘Get him!’
“So, the producers at UTV said that we will take you to Chennai. We’ll put you in a room with him, you can tell him the story of Rockstar. In one way or the other, catch him because he doesn’t say yes or no. You have to get a yes from him. And then he comes in and said, ‘Yeah, what is your story.’ I started saying the story. I went on and on. I knew when I was looking at him and talking to him, I had a sense that it’s going all over. It wasn’t registering in his head,” he added.
He continued, “Then I stopped and again started but this time, I said in the beginning, there is a dark screen, we hear some sort of the music and then we hear these lines (‘Nadaan Parinde’ lyrics),” Imtiaz added. He narrated the lines, “Kaga Re Kaga Mori Itni Araz Tose Chun Chun Khaiyo Maas, Re Jiya Re Khaiyon Na Tu Naina Mor, Piya Ke Milan Ki Aas.” Imtiaz said Rahman asked him the meaning of the lyrics. As soon as it was translated, Imtiaz felt a shift in Rahman’s interest in the film. “At that point of time, I got a sense that we are on and maybe he will do it.”
Rockstar was released in 2011 and is regarded as a cult favorite. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor in the lead role and marked Nargis Fakhri’s Bollywood debut.
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