A.R. Rahman - Local Hero
Allah Rakkha Rahman (Tamil: ஏ.ஆர்.ரகுமான்) (born January 6, 1967 as A. S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Academy Award winning Indian film composer, record producer and musician. His work has garnered considerable acclaim and a large global fan base since his film scoring career began in the early 1990s. Since then, he won several prizes, including two Academy Awards, four National Film Awards as well as a British Academy Award and the Golden Globe award.
Working in several of India's various film industries, international cinema and theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sold more than 100 million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide,and sold over 200 million cassettes making him one of the world's all-time top selling recording artists.
His acclaimed music compositions have led to references to him as the "Mozart of Madras" and several Tamil commentators have given him the title Isai Puyal (Tamil: இசைப் புயல்; English: Music Storm).
A. R. Rahman was born to a Tamil Hindu family. His father R. K. Shekhar was a composer and conductor for Malayalam-language films of Keralite cinema. His father died when Rahman was 9 years old, and his family rented out musical equipment as a source of income. He converted to Islam from Hinduism in 1989 along with his family after a personal experience with a Sufism teacher.
During these early years, Rahman served as a keyboard player and an arranger in bands such as "Roots" with childhood friend and percussionist Sivamani, John Anthony, JoJo and Raja.Rahman is the founder of the Chennai-based rock group, "Nemesis Avenue".He played the keyboard and piano, the synthesizer, the harmonium and the guitar. His curiosity in the synthesizer in particular increased because, he says, it was the “ideal combination of music and technology". He began early training in music under Master Dhanraj. At the age of 11, he joined, as a keyboardist, the troupe of Ilaiyaraaja, one of many composers to whom musical instruments belonging to Rahman's father were rented. Rahman later played in the orchestra of M. S. Viswanathan and Ramesh Naidu, accompanied Zakir Hussain, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and L. Shankar on world tours and obtained a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music, where he graduated with a degree in Western classical music.
Music style and impact
Skilled in Carnatic music,Western classical, Hindustani music and the Qawwali style of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rahman has been noted to write film songs that amalgamate elements of these music systems and other genres, layering instruments from differing music idioms in an improvisatory manner. Symphonic orchestral themes have accompanied his scores, where he has employed leitmotif. In the 1980s, Rahman recorded and played arrangements on mono, synonymous with the era of predecessors such as K. V. Mahadevan and Vishwanathan–Ramamoorthy, but later his methodology changed. Rahman worked and experimented on fusing traditional instruments with new electronic sounds and technology.
His first soundtrack Roja was listed in TIME's "Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time" in 2005. Film critic Richard Corliss felt the "astonishing debut work parades Rahman's gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman." Rahman's initial global reach is attributed to the South Asian diaspora. Described as one of the most innovative composers to ever work in the industry, his unique style and immense success transformed film music in the 1990s prompting several film producers to take film music more seriously.
The director Baz Luhrmann notes
"I had come to the music of A. R. Rahman through the emotional and haunting score of Bombay and the wit and celebration of Lagaan. But the more of AR's music I encountered the more I was to be amazed at the sheer diversity of styles: from swinging brass bands to triumphant anthems; from joyous pop to West-End musicals. Whatever the style, A. R. Rahman's music always possesses a profound sense of humanity and spirit, qualities that inspire me the most.
Danny Boyle - Britain Hero
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an Academy Award-winning English director and film producer, best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting, Sunshine, 28 Days Later. In 2009 Boyle gained an Academy Award for Best Director for Slumdog Millionaire.
Boyle was born in Radcliffe (historically a part of Lancashire) into a working-class Irish Catholic family. His mother was from Ballinasloe, County Galway, and his father was born in England to an Irish family of O'Dwyers. His great uncle Sir Michael O'Dwyer led the charge during the Amritsar Massacre.[1] For a while, Boyle seriously contemplated entering the priesthood and attended religious school as a teenager.He was discouraged by a priest from joining the clergy; later in his life Boyle stated, "I don't know if he was trying to save me or the priesthood." However, he later wrote a treatise Spiritual Glory of British Empire:Guiding souls in India about the activities of christian missionaries in British India.[citation needed]
Instead, he studied at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, and at the University of Wales, Bangor. While at university, Boyle dated the actress Frances Barber.
Resul Pookutty - Real Hero
Resul Pookutty (Malayalam: റെസൂൽ പൂക്കുട്ടി ) (born 1971) is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winning Indian film sound designer and mixer. Pookutty is from Vilakkupara, Kollam in Kerala. He is the first Indian and only Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing.
He was the youngest of eight children born to an impoverished family. His father was a private bus conductor, and he had to walk 6 km to the nearest school and studied in the light of the kerosene lamp as their village had no electricity
Pookutty moved to Mumbai after his graduation. He termed it as "a natural immigration as a graduate of the institute." Pookutty made his debut in sound design with the 1997 film Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One. He got his big break with the critically acclaimed 2005 film Black, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
In an interview, he named Gandhi, My Father as one of his "most emotional(ly) troubled film". He said "I got emotional. I wept. I was emotionally troubled while mixing the film. There is lot of me in the film.
He described working with Danny Boyle, whom he describes as one of his favourite directors for Slumdog Millionaire as a "completely new experience".He shot on many kinds of film cameras, more than fifty percent in digital camera
He designed sound for the 2008 blockbuster Ghajini. His first major international project Slumdog Millionaire won him an Academy award
His Academy award acceptance speech:
"This is unbelievable. We can't believe this. Ladies and gentlemen... sorry... I share the stage with two magicians, you know, who created the very ordinary sounds of Bombay, the cacophony of Bombay, into a soul-stirring, artful resonance called Slumdog Millionaire. I come from a country and a civilization that given the universal word. That word is preceded by silence, followed by more silence. That word is 'Om.' So I dedicate this award to my country. Thank you, Academy, this is not just a sound award, this is history being handed over to me. My sincere and deepest gratitude to my teachers, Danny Boyle [Images], Christian Colson, Paul Ritchie, Pravesh... and everybody who has contributed to this film, Glenn Freemantle and all the sound mixers. I dedicate this to you guys. Thank you, Academy. Thank you very much.
His Films
Slumdog Millionaire (January 23, 2009) (Released)
Acid Factory (2009) (Under Production)
Raat Gayi Baat Gayi (2009) (Under Production)
Ghajini (December 24, 2008) (Released)
Woodstock Villa (May 30, 2008) (Released)
Mithya (February 8, 2008) (Released)
Dus Kahaniyaan (December 7, 2007) (Released)
Saawariya (November 9, 2007) (Released)
Gandhi My Father (August 3, 2007) (Released)
Mixed Doubles (February 10, 2006) (Released)
Matrubhoomi (July 8, 2005) (Released)
Musafir (December 10, 2004) (Released)
Kyun! Ho Gaya Na (August 13, 2004) (Released)
Agni Varsha (August 30, 2002) (Released)
Snip! (2000) (Released)
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