A.R.Rahman in Kerala

Sree · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:27 am Post subject: A.R.Rahman in Kerala

The musical wizard A.R.Rahman created a flutter at the Thiruvanthapuram airport. He arrived from Chennai and checked into Mascot hotel. Later in the day he left for the Bhima Palli mosque located at the outskirts .The mosque is celebrating its annual festival now. Media persons who came to know of the arrival of the music director gathered at the hotel but were disappointed when the hotel authorities informed them that the genius had left back for Chennai. Rahman whenever he lands up in Mumbai makes it a point to visit Haji Ali.
After the death of his father, A.S Dilip Kumar, renamed himself as A.R. Rahman for his strong faith in Islam, As an individual personality, A.R. Rahman leads an extremely devote religious life and credits all his musical inspiration to Allah. He comes across to say, " music speaks, statements don't and none can completely be original because the notes are already there: from the notes we form a raga and from raga a tune. It's the methodology. As far as I can, to my conscience, I try to be original. The rest is up to Allah".