New Delhi: Composer A R Rahman says talent should not be restricted to one region and young Indian artists like Cannes winner Payal Kapadia, who keep pace with the changing times, play an important role in taking India's stories global. Are.
Kapadia, an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), is the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival for "All We Imagine as Light". The Malayalam-Hindi feature, an Indo-French production, was the first film from an Indian director in 30 years to make it to the main competition section of the European festival.
Rahman, a multi-award-winning musician who has won accolades across the country and the world, including a Golden Globe and a double win at an Oscar and a Grammy, said India's beautiful stories deserve international recognition. "The sentiment of young people has changed now.They are more intelligent. They know where to take the stuff, what kind of stories to tell. As long as we tell beautiful stories not just about poverty but about India, it's a good thing."
"The art of film is not just (for domestic audiences), it's international... It's important to learn some things, not be happy with, 'Oh we got great audiences here, the box office is good here.' Some people are not satisfied with it, so they go to (international festivals), Payal Kapadia (is one of them),' the musician said in an interview.Last month, Rahman was also in Cannes to unveil the Nagaland-set "Headhunting to Beat Boxing", directed by Rohit Gupta, at the festival's Bazaar. "Sunflowers Are the First Ones" and "The Shameless" written by FTII student Chidanand S Naik " fame Anasuya Sengupta wins major awards at Cannes. Sengupta became the first Indian to win the Best Actress award for Un Certain Regard, while Naik's "Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know..." won the La Cinef First Prize (Film School Fiction or Animated Films) at the film festival.
Recalling the time when he earned two Academy Awards for the British film "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009, Rahman said there were people who said he deserved to win the award for "Lagaan" (which won the Best in the foreign film Oscar category in 2002) and 1992's "Rosa".
“We want our stories to be heard, represented and recognized.There is a system for this. Even when I won the Oscar and everything for 'Slumdog Millionaire', (people said) 'Lagaan' should have won, 'Roja' should have won. I said, 'First of all, I didn't even enter (these awards at that time), I didn't enter everything into any system,' said the composer, who won an Oscar for Best Original Song for "Jai Ho". and another for the original score of "Slumdog Millionaire". In February, Zakir Hussain was India's big winner with three Grammys, with flautist Rakesh Chaurasia winning two. Singer Shankar Mahadevan, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan and percussionist Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Hussain's collaborators in the fusion group Shakti, won a Grammy each.Citing the examples of multiple Grammy winners Hussain and Ricky Cage, Rahman said that overall, the Indian art scene has seen great heights in the last decade.
"Half the people don't even know how to get into the system. (They say) 'I think it should win a Grammy'... It's not like that. There's a process for everything. So, there's In case, I think he said it was a collaboration... even Payal Kapadia's film,'' he said."Headhunting to Beat Boxing" is a musical documentary that tells the story of a tribe in a northeastern state that "plunged into the depths of violence and bloodshed, (the tribe) revives itself through the healing power of music and a emerges through the Renaissance".
Rahman, who has backed the film through his ARR Immersive Entertainment banner, said he joined it as a producer five years ago because he fell in love with Nagaland while attending the state's annual Hornbill Festival Was.
"I'm into music and there was a kind of connection between me and the culture. We even adopted an orphanage and sent our (music) teachers to Nagaland to teach them strings and everything." Rahman said in a 2016 miniseries with Gupta He had worked in "The Creative Indians" and that's why he approached the filmmaker for a possible project on Nagaland.
The composer said that Gupta shot the film for five years and then he worked on editing and now a cut is ready.Asked how he chooses the subjects he wants to produce, the multi-hyphenate personality, whose directorial debut "Le Musique" had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Market's Cannes XR program in 2022, Said the answer was a little "complicated." "When you get into filmmaking, it's an ocean. We have so many great accomplishments from so many people. My thing was what people didn't do. That's why I Directed 'Le Masque'.Why can't people have 3D? Why can't they experience something other than what they are experiencing? Why can't we do theatre?
"It's always about filling the void, finding the energy and resources to do that work. Everything is about that. Even our product is about taking what's not there in art and bringing it to people." So that they can see it, enrich their lives. My path is very selective because I want my time for music and shows," he said.
In terms of films, Rahman's upcoming projects are "Raayan" and "Lahore 1947".
Kapadia, an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), is the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival for "All We Imagine as Light". The Malayalam-Hindi feature, an Indo-French production, was the first film from an Indian director in 30 years to make it to the main competition section of the European festival.
Rahman, a multi-award-winning musician who has won accolades across the country and the world, including a Golden Globe and a double win at an Oscar and a Grammy, said India's beautiful stories deserve international recognition. "The sentiment of young people has changed now.They are more intelligent. They know where to take the stuff, what kind of stories to tell. As long as we tell beautiful stories not just about poverty but about India, it's a good thing."
"The art of film is not just (for domestic audiences), it's international... It's important to learn some things, not be happy with, 'Oh we got great audiences here, the box office is good here.' Some people are not satisfied with it, so they go to (international festivals), Payal Kapadia (is one of them),' the musician said in an interview.Last month, Rahman was also in Cannes to unveil the Nagaland-set "Headhunting to Beat Boxing", directed by Rohit Gupta, at the festival's Bazaar. "Sunflowers Are the First Ones" and "The Shameless" written by FTII student Chidanand S Naik " fame Anasuya Sengupta wins major awards at Cannes. Sengupta became the first Indian to win the Best Actress award for Un Certain Regard, while Naik's "Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know..." won the La Cinef First Prize (Film School Fiction or Animated Films) at the film festival.
Recalling the time when he earned two Academy Awards for the British film "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009, Rahman said there were people who said he deserved to win the award for "Lagaan" (which won the Best in the foreign film Oscar category in 2002) and 1992's "Rosa".
“We want our stories to be heard, represented and recognized.There is a system for this. Even when I won the Oscar and everything for 'Slumdog Millionaire', (people said) 'Lagaan' should have won, 'Roja' should have won. I said, 'First of all, I didn't even enter (these awards at that time), I didn't enter everything into any system,' said the composer, who won an Oscar for Best Original Song for "Jai Ho". and another for the original score of "Slumdog Millionaire". In February, Zakir Hussain was India's big winner with three Grammys, with flautist Rakesh Chaurasia winning two. Singer Shankar Mahadevan, violinist Ganesh Rajagopalan and percussionist Selvaganesh Vinayakram, Hussain's collaborators in the fusion group Shakti, won a Grammy each.Citing the examples of multiple Grammy winners Hussain and Ricky Cage, Rahman said that overall, the Indian art scene has seen great heights in the last decade.
"Half the people don't even know how to get into the system. (They say) 'I think it should win a Grammy'... It's not like that. There's a process for everything. So, there's In case, I think he said it was a collaboration... even Payal Kapadia's film,'' he said."Headhunting to Beat Boxing" is a musical documentary that tells the story of a tribe in a northeastern state that "plunged into the depths of violence and bloodshed, (the tribe) revives itself through the healing power of music and a emerges through the Renaissance".
Rahman, who has backed the film through his ARR Immersive Entertainment banner, said he joined it as a producer five years ago because he fell in love with Nagaland while attending the state's annual Hornbill Festival Was.
"I'm into music and there was a kind of connection between me and the culture. We even adopted an orphanage and sent our (music) teachers to Nagaland to teach them strings and everything." Rahman said in a 2016 miniseries with Gupta He had worked in "The Creative Indians" and that's why he approached the filmmaker for a possible project on Nagaland.
The composer said that Gupta shot the film for five years and then he worked on editing and now a cut is ready.Asked how he chooses the subjects he wants to produce, the multi-hyphenate personality, whose directorial debut "Le Musique" had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Market's Cannes XR program in 2022, Said the answer was a little "complicated." "When you get into filmmaking, it's an ocean. We have so many great accomplishments from so many people. My thing was what people didn't do. That's why I Directed 'Le Masque'.Why can't people have 3D? Why can't they experience something other than what they are experiencing? Why can't we do theatre?
"It's always about filling the void, finding the energy and resources to do that work. Everything is about that. Even our product is about taking what's not there in art and bringing it to people." So that they can see it, enrich their lives. My path is very selective because I want my time for music and shows," he said.
In terms of films, Rahman's upcoming projects are "Raayan" and "Lahore 1947".
