{"id":422470,"date":"2026-01-19T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:30:09","slug":"two-oscars-can-be-a-burden-says-ar-rahman-revealing-that-people-gaslighted-him-into-believing-hes-not-making-good-music-compared-to-his-earlier-work-like-roja-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422470\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Two Oscars can be a burden,’ says AR Rahman revealing that people gaslighted him into believing he’s not making good music compared to his earlier work like ‘Roja’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Two While AR Rahman recently admitted that Hindi film projects have slowed down for him over the past eight years, he also pointed out that the last six years have been among the most intense and productive phases of his career. In a recent interview, the composer revealed that between 2019 and 2025, he worked on nearly 20 to 30 films, which was a deliberate decision to reassert himself and connect with a newer generation of listeners.Reflecting on how audiences often view his work through nostalgia, Rahman<\/a> said during a chat with The Hollywood Reporter India, \u201cFor the past six years, to be frank, when people come to you, the \u201990s generation have a certain nostalgia, certain affinity towards your music. The same goes for those born in 2000s, and so on for those from the next decade. They come and gaslight you. They say, ‘In the \u201990s, you did Roja (1992). That\u2019s very good music, sir!\u2019 That feels like now, you\u2019re not doing good music, right? It actually harms your thinking if you\u2019re not in your best mood.” <\/p>\n

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To challenge that perception, Rahman consciously chose to immerse himself in back-to-back projects. \u201cSo I thought what if I go on a rampage and keep doing movies, songs after songs? So, every director who comes to me now, says, \u2018You\u2019ve done such a great sequence in Mani (Ratnam) sir\u2019s movie Thug Life. So, all the examples now are from the last six years. I\u2019ve done 20-30 movies in the last six years. So, I\u2019m safe now. I\u2019ve got enough for the next generation. That was intentional,\u201d he said in his interview with The Hollywood Reporter India.Rahman also spoke about the need to constantly reinvent himself and let go of familiar creative formulas. \u201cIt\u2019s the modern, the new me. You want to keep evolving, drop your formulas. We\u2019re growing old, so is the listener. Whatever comes out of the radio or TV, I should like it first. I should not think I\u2019m still doing my own style,\u201d he explained, adding, \u201cWhatever I\u2019ve learnt, some of the stuff I keep, some of it I just throw. You jump onto what\u2019s next. Even if it\u2019s going to fail, it\u2019s fine.\u201dElaborating further on his mindset, Rahman shared that personal motivation matters more to him than past accolades. \u201cI love that stuff, but within me, I need to get my self-esteem and confidence back, and prove myself. What I\u2019m doing next is going to be the best thing. Not rely on the past, and be like, \u2018Oh, I’ve won 2 Oscars<\/a>.\u2019 That thought drains you. You\u2019re not motivated to do anything, It can be a burden. It\u2019s not in my Twitter or Instagram bio, no Oscar, no Grammy, nothing. It\u2019s a fresh start, 2026,\u201d he added.Looking ahead, Rahman said he will now be largely occupied with co-composing the score and songs for Nitesh Tiwari<\/a>\u2019s two-part adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana, slated for theatrical releases this Diwali and the next. He is also set to reunite musically with longtime collaborators Imtiaz Ali and Mani Ratnam on their upcoming directorial ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While AR Rahman recently admitted that Hindi film projects have slowed down for him over the past eight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63636,64,63,134,174901,57042,49746,37509,1433,171395,375,222267],"class_list":["post-422470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ar-rahman","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-imtiaz-ali","tag-mani-ratnam","tag-music-career","tag-nitesh-tiwari","tag-oscars","tag-rahman","tag-ramayana","tag-the-hollywood-reporter-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}