India’s music composer maestro Alla Rakha Rahman (AR Rahman) created history on Sunday night as he became the first Thamizhian to win a prestigious golden globe award.
AR Rahman won a Golden Globe award for Best Original Score for his music in British director Danny Boyle's uplifting underdog tale "Slum dog Millionaire" at "The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards" held on Jan 11th, 2009.
Forty – two year old AR Rahman was born on January 6th 1966 in Chennai as A.S. Dilipkumar. His father RS Shekhar was of Thamizhian descent and a one – time assistant to music composer Sutharsanam and also composed music for Kerala movies.
Dileepkumar was nine years old when his father died. Two years later the Hindu family converted to Islam .His name was changed to Alla Rakha Rahman.
Rahman who studied western classical music in London got his first big break in composing music in cinema for the Tamil film “Roja” in 1992.
Thereafter he never looked back and went on to score music for scores of movies in different Indian languages.
He has won numerous wards for his music composition and was hailed by “Time” magazine as the “Mozart of Madras”.
Tamil fans have dubbed him as “Isaipuyal” (Musical storm) Several films became blockbusters mainly due to Rahman’s music.
His film scores and soundtracks have sold more than 100 million records and 250 million audiocassettes.Rahman is one of twenty – five all time top –selling recording artistes.
Tamils worldwide are excited by the news that AR Rahman has become the first Tamil to get a golden globe and next, hopefully an Oscar.
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