{"id":50441,"date":"2017-01-06T05:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T05:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=50441"},"modified":"2017-01-06T05:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T05:17:54","slug":"maestro-ar-rahman-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/maestro-ar-rahman-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Maestro AR Rahman @ 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Music maestro AR Rahman who started his career with Roja is 50th today. But Rahman told some news men that he is not yet 50. A few of them reported that he is 49.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The great musician has two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four National Film Awards, 15 Filmfare Awards, a Golden Globe and 13 Filmfare Awards South to his credit. He is in the Oscar race again this year for Pele: Birth of a Legend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahman has composed music for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam, Kannada and English movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Popuar director Mani Ratnam gave him the break and there was no looking back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50442\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Happy-birthday-A-R-Rahman.jpg\" alt=\"Music maestro AR Rahman\" width=\"825\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Happy-birthday-A-R-Rahman.jpg 825w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Happy-birthday-A-R-Rahman-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman said he feels lucky that he\u2019s not yet crossed the half century in age, and has thanked his well-wishers for prayers and affection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rahman, whose tunes are known nationally and internationally, took to Facebook to pen a post for his legions of fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTo my dearest friends, fans, family and well-wishers\u2026 Thank you for your kind birthday wishes, prayers and affection. You inspire me to work harder and make even more beautiful music. Luckily I am not yet 50,\u201d Rahman posted on his page, which has received about 21,764,666 \u2018total page likes\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music maestro AR Rahman who started his career with Roja is 50th today. But Rahman told some news men that he is not yet 50. A few of them reported that he is 49. The great musician has two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four National Film Awards, 15 Filmfare Awards, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[5823,25087,25084,719,2935,25081,25086,25082,25080,25085,25083,681,370],"class_list":["post-50441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-top-stories","tag-ar-rahman","tag-english-movies","tag-great-musician","tag-hindi","tag-kannada","tag-maestro-ar-rahman","tag-malyalam","tag-music-maestro","tag-music-maestro-ar-rahman","tag-oscar-award","tag-roja-movie","tag-tamil","tag-telugu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Music-maestro-AR-Rahman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50441","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=50441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}