{"id":244706,"date":"2026-01-18T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:03:07","slug":"chinmayi-defends-ar-rahman-against-claim-that-he-refused-to-sing-vande-mataram-meerra-compares-him-to-priyanka-chopra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244706\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinmayi defends AR Rahman against claim that he refused to sing Vande Mataram; Meerra compares him to Priyanka Chopra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Music composer AR Rahman<\/a> found himself in the centre of a social media storm after his statements in a recent interview left people offended. Singer Chinmayi Sripada has now defended him against a claim that he refused to sing Vande Mataram when asked to, while Meerra Chopraa compared him to her cousin, Priyanka Chopra.<\/p>\n

\"ChinmayiChinmayi slammed claims that AR Rahman refused to sing Vande Mataram.Chinmayi Sripada defends AR Rahman<\/p>\n

A journalist took to X (formerly Twitter) and claimed to be \u2018incredibly hurt\u2019 by Rahman\u2019s comment. They also claimed to \u2018beg\u2019 the music composer for at least half an hour to sing Vande Mataram\/Maa Tujhe Salaam at an interview, only to be turned down. However, Chinmayi <\/a>came to his defence, saying, \u201cA R Rahman and all us sang Vande Mataram to a crowd that chanted with us on November 23 2025 in Pune at the R K Laxman memorial award concert.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also added that he sings it at \u2018every concert\u2019 and reasoned that he might have turned her down for another reason than what is being implied. \u201cHe sings Maa Tujhe Salaam<\/a> at almost every concert @bainjal – everyone who has attended the concerts knows this. Maybe he felt his voice was not at its best or just didn\u2019t feel like singing that day when you interviewed him. And that\u2019s OK,\u201d wrote the singer. <\/p>\n

Chinmayi also called out those jumping to conclusions, writing, \u201cThe responses under this tweet \u2018OH THAT EXPLAINS IT\u2019 shows exactly what\u2019s gone wrong in the recent past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meerra Chopraa compares AR Rahman to Priyanka Chopra<\/p>\n

Meerra, who is starring in the film Gandhi Talks, which has music by Rahman, also came to his defence. \u201cOnly two Indians have truly taken India to the global stage in a way the whole world recognizes \u2014 @priyankachopra and @arrahman. Trolling him for something he didnt even mean is not just wrong, it\u2019s disgraceful. Respect the legend. He’s the one who composed the most iconic #vandemataram,\u201d she wrote, comparing him to her cousin Priyanka<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rahman recently came under scrutiny for stating in an interview<\/a> with BBC Asian Network that he has lost work in Hindi in the last eight years due to a \u2018power shift\u2019. \u201cIt might be a communal thing also\u2026 but it is not in my face,\u201d he said. The composer also stated that Chhaava cashed in on \u2018divisiveness\u2019 and stated that it\u2019s \u2018clich\u00e9 and cringe\u2019 that whenever something bad happens, the characters say \u2018Subhanallah\u2019 and \u2018Alhamdulillah\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music composer AR Rahman found himself in the centre of a social media storm after his statements in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[84803,458,131343,52333,146,85,46,131342],"class_list":{"0":"post-244706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ar-rahman","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-chinmayi-on-ar-rahman","11":"tag-chinmayi-sripada","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-meera-chopra"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}