Like many film composers, he is not a particularly gifted vocalist or a player. The golden statue is a global recognition of Rahman's enormous talent. But it works because it follows the film's giddy pace, the darkness of its characters, its portrayal of lives on the edge. The score is an untidy smorgasbord of hip hop, Bollywood remix and signature pop anthem. Seventeen years after he began writing music and songs for films, the jingle maker-turned-musician has finally got recognition as India's first truly global film music composer with his score for Danny Boyle's sleeper hit Slumdog Millionaire. It was late in the evening, and trombone loops floated down the stairs from the state-of-the art studio above. "We make a lot of noise here," one of Rahman's assistants told me wryly when I paid a visit a few years ago. The backyard music studio is also AR Rahman's atelier. The curiously named Panchathan Record Inn is a nondescript building tucked away in the thriving film district of the southern Indian city of Chennai (Madras). The BBC's Soutik Biswas discusses what makes Rahman tick. Indian music director AR Rahman's score for Slumdog Millionaire has won an Oscar for best music, and a second for best song. Rahman is a composer with a staggering range
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