{"id":106253,"date":"2017-09-13T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=106253"},"modified":"2017-09-13T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T07:31:53","slug":"i-am-50-nothing-to-prove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/i-am-50-nothing-to-prove\/","title":{"rendered":"I am 50 -nothing to prove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music director Rahman believes that composers today are forced to make music that would generate revenue for film producers and that the Indian elements of music are slowly disappearing from mainstream Bollywood films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having won Grammys as well as Oscars, Rahman says that he doesn\u2019t need to prove himself anymore, and as a result, he has become more \u201cdaring\u201d in composing music. \u201cI am 50. I have become old now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106254 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ar_next.jpg\" alt=\"Music director Rahman\" width=\"765\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ar_next.jpg 915w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ar_next-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ar_next-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI love doing commercial cinema, but I want to do alternative stuff. I want to make music to stop people from going to the loo, or buying popcorn when the song is playing in a theatre. I want to engage people with my music. That\u2019s what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cComposers are being asked to compose for films, half of which have been shot in Europe. They don\u2019t get to use the Indian classical music because of that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNot that you can\u2019t have Indian classical music in Romania, but then the filmmaker wants the movie to make 100 crores,\u201d adds Rahman. \u201cThere are many such insecurities like this. And then the insecurities gang up on you, and that is not good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music director Rahman believes that composers today are forced to make music that would generate revenue for film producers and that the Indian elements of music are slowly disappearing from mainstream Bollywood films. Having won Grammys as well as Oscars, Rahman says that he doesn\u2019t need to prove himself anymore, and as a result, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[53806,8778,53805,19637,53804,46051,47786,1559,24602],"class_list":["post-106253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-top-stories","tag-100-crores","tag-bollywood-films","tag-commercial-cinema","tag-filmmaker","tag-grammys","tag-indian-classical-music","tag-music-director","tag-oscars","tag-rahman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ceremony-indian-film-awards-green-carpet-award_241d162c-84e1-11e7-aa81-8a4dce36eef3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}