When AR Rahman changed his name from Dileep Kumar on request of his mother

AR Rahman, who has given industry a slew of hits, was born as Dileep Kumar. Many of his fans are unaware of why he chose to convert to Islam. Later in his life, he embraced Islam, along with his family. Re on to kw trivia related to music mogul's life.

As per a report by Koimoi, AR Rahman, along with his family, embraced Islam, after demise of his far, RK Shekhar, who was also a music composer. He embraced Islam before release of his debut project, Roja.  report furr ded that his friend Trilok Nair h told Krishna Trilok in his authorised biography, tes of a Dream, that Rahman’s mor Kareema Begum h insisted on changing his name in  film‘s credits at last minute.

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From Dileep Kumar to AR Rahman 

As mentioned by Scroll.in, AR Rahman stated that he never liked his name and that he somehow felt that his name didn’t match im he h of himself. More so, singer continued that before his family and he started ir journey on path of Sufism, y went to an astrologer to show him his younger sister’s horoscope because his mor wanted to get her married.

Speaking about how he was keen on changing his name around that time, Rahman ded that he wanted a new identity and that  astrologer suggested names- Abdul Rahman and Abdul Rahim. AR Rahman remarked that he instantly loved name Rahman and n his mor h an intuition that he should d Allahrakha (Protected by God) in his name. That's how he changed his name to AR Rahman from Dileep Kumar. 

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AR Rahman me his debut as a music composer with 1992 movie Roja. song titled Chinna Chinna Aasai was first track that Rahman h composed for film. More so, it was his project with SP Balasubrahmanyam toger. Apart from this, duo h worked on several or projects as well. Some of movies include Gentleman, Sivaji and Enthiran, among ors. 

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