AR Rahman reveals 'Rangeela' soundtrack was an 'experiment'; Read more

Ram Gopal Varma's iconic film, Rangeela, featuring Urmila Matondkar, Aamir Khan, and Jackie Shroff, is considered to be a landmark film of 90s in terms of its music. movie recently completed its 25 years this month. Recently, in an interview with PTI, music maestro AR Rahman opened up about composing music for this film.

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AR Rahman on composing Rangeela’s soundtrack

In an interview with PTI, ace musician told that soundtrack of Rangeela arrived naturally and y didn’t feel pressure for this movie because he was enjoying new company he had in RGV and lyricist Mehboob. He said that y talk and joke and have fun. Furr crediting film’s team, he said he learned a lot while working on movie.

music legend said, “ first song that we worked on was ‘Tanha Tanha’ and n came ‘Rangeela Re’. most important decision we made was getting Asha Bhonsleji to sing. Her voice brought something extraordinary to music. She lent credibility to soundtrack in a big way because Mehboob, Ramu and me, we were all new,”.

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He furr ted, “I was stunned, I still remember. And way he acted was brilliant. And Urmila was brilliant. I think whole soundtrack was an experiment. Apart from ‘Tanha Tanha’ and ‘Yayire’, body does a (‘Raag’) Bhairavi for beginning of a song, it is used at end, but I didn’t kw that information. I was like happy tuning ‘Tanha Tanha’. re were strains of Bhairavi constantly in it”.

Oscar winner also said, “We just went by instinct of ‘this is right, it feels right. Mangta Hai Kya was a song that “freaked people out because y did t kw what to expect. It was just going on, almost like a trip rar than having proper ‘mukhda’, ‘antara’. I believe some people said song won’t work, but once it was picturised, people liked velty of it, y loved it. way Ramu picturised it was very cool”.

re have been many tributes to Rangeela by a lot of artists, and he said that he is moved by love and appreciation for film’s music. composer lastly added, “I’m very moved because that means music has spread a lot. It’s a kind of validation for music. And it’s probably payoff that we all need in our work. We’re blessed that we do something different, and it gets recognised. So I always feel grateful”.

(Source: PTI Inputs)

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