By Baiju NT [ July 27, 2010 ]
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Will A.R. Rahman avoid assignments in India?

No matter who you are or what you do, everybody has just 24 hours to spend in each day! For common men like us, 24 hours are in fact plenty (even though we always pretend to be too busy), since our daily tasks are fortunately very limited! But think of an international celebrity like A.R. Rahman, flooded with too many assignments from both Indian and international domains, especially after Slumdog Millionaire!

If�reports are to be believed, to overcome this shortage of time, A.R. Rahman is now planning to implement a new time management strategy! And what is that? Sources suggest�the composer is seriously thinking of putting all domestic assignments on hold to concentrate on building his career abroad,�else he feels he would lose the international advantage he obtained after Slumdog Millionaire!

"The Indian assignments after Slumdog Millioniare have been very time-consuming, especially Raavan where Rahman not only had to do two versions of the music in Hindi and Tamil, but director Mani Ratnam also asked him to give 3–4 tunes for every lyric before one was selected. The music of Raavan took more time than Rahman could afford, with the result that other Indian assignments, primarily Abbas Tyrewala’s untitled John Abraham-Pakhi starrer, got delayed," a friend of A.R. Rahman was quoted as saying.

"Rahman had to continuously keep breaking his international tours and other projects, because he has to be constantly moving back and forth between India and the US for various reasons like the music release of Raavan. He has begun to feel that his international career would never take off if he has to keep returning home," he also said, emphasizing that the composer has not signed a single new assignment in Mumbai or Chennai in the last few months. So, according to the current plan, after completing Abbas Tyrewala’s music, Rahman will focus on consolidating his career abroad.