When AR Rahman silenced infuriated Subhash Ghai for shrieking at him
When AR Rahman silenced infuriated Subhash Ghai for
shrieking at him
Oscar awardee Music Composer once silenced veteran filmmaker Subhash Ghai for shrieking at him. This was revealed by maverick filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma recently amidst the making of film Yuvvraaj. RGV, while elaborating how Rahman is “
disreputable for delaying in giving music,” and that Ghai once lost his cool with the Oscar-winning composer and sent him a ‘nasty’ letter.
RGV shared that “Subhash Ghai was making a film Yuvvraaj. Rahman is notorious for delaying in giving the music. Subhash Ghai was upset about it, and at a certain point, he wrote a nasty, stinging letter to Rahman, saying, ‘How can he delay his (Ghai’s dates) Salman’s dates are here, and and he is not giving the songs’.
Rahman responded to him, but saying that ‘he is in London, he will reach Bombay (Mumbai) onhis 8ay to Chennai and we’ll meet at Sukhvinder Singh’s studio and I’ll make the songs for you there.’”
RGV added, “On that day, he (Ghai) went to Sukhvinder, and Rahman was on his way from the airport, and Sukhvinder was making some tune. Subhash Ghai asked him what he was doing, and he said that Rahman called him and asked him to make a song. Subhash Ghai was so angry. He thought because he was putting pressure on Rahman, Rahman was making someone else do the song. He thought that Sukhvinder had told him this by mistake, and then Rahman came and asked Sukhvinder if he had made something. In front of Subhash Ghai only he asked him. Sukhvinder said yes, and made them listen to the tune. Rahman said he liked it and asked Subhash Ghai if he liked it.”
Ghai and Rahman go back a long way. Before Yuvvraaj, they’d collaborated on films such as Taal (1999) and Kisna (2005), among others. RGV revealed that Ghai was fuming in anger and began yelling at Rahman. He shared, “Subhash Ghai blew up the thing, he told Rahman, ‘I am paying you crores of rupees as my music director and you are making Sukhvinder make a tune for me. You have the guts to say that in front of me? If I want Sukhvinder, I’ll sign him, who are you to take my money and make Sukhvinder do the music for me?’”
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RGV said that Rahman’s response to Ghai was remarkable. He shared, “Rahman’s answer is one of the greatest I have heard in my life. Rahman said, ‘Sir, you are paying for my name, not my music. If I am endorsing it, it becomes mine. Now you happen to be here, how do you know where I took Taal music from? How do you know whichever music… My driver could have done it, maybe someone else, whatever else’.”
And then RGV revealed the clincher. He said that Rahman ultimately sold the song to another filmmaker, and the song in question was “Jai Ho” from the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Earlier this year, filmmaker Subhash Ghai had said that “Jai Ho” was originally made for Yuvvraaj, but he felt that the song would not fit the Salman Khan-starrer.
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