I feel like my work is mostly derived from the infinite: AR Rahman

 It is important to be in touch with one's inner self as well as nature to create music, says Acemy Award-winning composer AR Rahman who believes an artiste should draw inspiration from "higher ideals".

53-year-old music director said he tries to stay away from chaos while working on his music as it is a spiritual process for him.

In art, you get inspired by higher ideals, higher inspirations and higher things in life. If you derive something from nature, from a universal feeling or a consciousness, n re's greatness in your work. And often, we are forced to derive from smaller things, but I feel my work is mostly derived from infinite, wher it's a feeling or a musical bit or wher it's a soundscape,ded Rahman. 

"I try to position myself to stay away from chaos which is around us and try to derive from re," Rahman told PTI in a Zoom interview.

composer, who has attained status of a global music icon with magnificent discography as well as Oscar and Grammy wins to his credit, said re are times when artistes are pushed to follow a certain trend and that les to mediocrity.

"If you have a song and n somebody wants you to make that kind of a song again, n it becomes mediocre," he ded.

Rahman, however, said he respects different points of view of people in film industry as y all share same goal of making people happy. He believes industry gives different mindsets a to coexist and re is "elitisim".

I respect that re are various people and y make whole industry colourful with different mindsets, but all of us have one goal - to make person who is watching or listening, happy,ded Rahman.

"Everything coexists, re's elitism. It is a great thing and I mire that in everyone I meet. I respect everybody equally, t that this person is smaller or this work is smaller. So, I feel like my part is done in world and I've me people happy,"ded Rahman.

composer, who started his journey in movies with Mani Ratnam's 1992 film "Roja", went on to create memorable soundtracks for films "Bombay", "Rangeela", "Daud", "Dil Se…", "Taal" and "Lagaan", "Saathiya", "Swes", "Yuva", "Rang De Basanti" and "Rockstar" among ors.

Rahman said he always aspires to create music which resonates with people across , , caste, class and interest.In his almost three dece-long career across langus, he believes, he has been fortunate eugh to work with people who strive to achieve harmony.

"I've got a great team and all of us have me cinematic masterpieces, I would say. But it's a fight... You kw re will still be a fight where re are certain disagreements and where I have to do my part and y do ir part and when it's in unison, it's fun," he ded.

Rahman said fact that he did t join industry with an aim to become an icon gave him cour to break boundaries.

I didn't have any insecurities. Because only a person who wants some result would be insecure and n he'll compromise on what he does. But for me, my intention was t to go furr. I h more cour to do things,ded Rahman.

composer's journey from a young boy from Mras to one of most celebrated artistes across globe, will be traced in third episode of National Geographic's "Mega Icons" season two, which premieres on Sunday.

Rahman, who prefers to stay away from limelight, said he has rejected many biopic offers but this show came with an assurance of quality.

"I don't like watching shows myself, usually. I've rejected so many of se proposals like - 'I want to make a movie based on you, I want to make this about your life' and all that. But I thought this NatGeo proposal will be good, so I went for this and it turned out well," he said. 

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