Two-time Oscar winner AR Rahman has revealed that he turned down the chance to move to Mumbai within the early 1990s due to the town’s underworld mafia tradition.
A R Rahman turned down move to Mumbai due to “underworld mafia culture”; says, “Subhash Ghai asked me to…”
In an interview with The Hindu, Rahman stated that he was provided a large home in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, by a giant producer if he moved to Mumbai. However, he declined the supply, saying that he was not comfy residing within the metropolis on the time.
AR Rahman asserted, “I remember in 1994, a big producer from Andhra Pradesh said he’d give me a massive place in Banjara Hills if I moved out from Chennai. I just smiled at him. Later, when I found prominence up North, Subhash Ghai asked me to learn Hindi as people there love me and I should know the language. But that was the time of the underworld mafia culture in Mumbai, so I didn’t even consider it.”
The six-time National Award singer-composer additional added, “A few years later, I was working in England, but my wife barely spent three months in the UK before she wanted to run back to India. Then, came the US, and we even bought a house there as everyone loved it. But this time I put my foot down and we all returned home.”
For the unversed, Rahman has by no means lived in Mumbai, despite the fact that he has labored on many Hindi movies within the metropolis. He at present lives in Chennai together with his spouse and three kids.
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