OVERWHELMED BY '99 SONGS', THIS LEGENDARY SINGER PUTS FORTH A REQUEST TO AR RAHMAN! - A MUST READ!

“Strangely she texted me – ‘How are you?’ So I called her and I asked her if she has watched my movie 99 Songs. I told her it is out on Netflix. She’s like – ‘What’s Netflix?’ Then her brother came in and told that they do have have Netflix. So, I asked him to type in 99 Songs and to show her the Telugu version of the film. She called back later and said in her own way, ‘This is very good.’ Then she is said – ‘I want my story to come out like this. Will you help me out?’ That was epic. I was like -WOW!. She is one of the legends that no one can ever match. She has sung thousands of songs and has seen at least seven decades of filmmakers. She is one of my favourites, and it was lovely to hear that generation responding to 99 Songs,” AR Rahman said during a virtual chat on Twitter with 99 Songs director Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy.

Rahman admitted that he was nervous about the film even after its release. “I was like now they will walk off but they didn’t. So, I was like ‘oh they liked it.’ It (99 Songs) is the first baby. Cannot replicate this. Can become better or worse. The enthusiasm the whole team has given to the project is massive. They worked on it like it’s a big budgeted film. I know the sacrifices the team has made,” he said.

He spoke about the experimentation he could do with the project and said, “I had a chance to try it all. We used only 60 percent of ideas we had. It is a challenge to push yourself and see the possibility if you can do it and present it in the way people can accept it. I could have made 5 hit songs and make this film very commercial but I wanted to have character graph in the songs too.”