AR Rahman has challenged singer Nicole Scherzinger and music composer Andrew Lloyd Weber to sing his original Oscar-winning composition Jai Ho. The singer was chatting with Andrew’s son Alastair Adam Lloyd Webber from his Chennai home when he posed the challenge.
According to a report in Mumbai Mirror, Rahman compared the recording days of the film’s music to lockdown as he was at his London studio while MIA and Alka Yagnik recorded in New York and Mumbai respectively, with his team in Chennai.
He also recalled how Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle had called him from the Toronto Film Festival after witnessing the wonderful response for the film’s music. The report quoted Rahman as saying, “It’s also because Danny doesn’t use music like wallpaper. I’ve worked so hard for other films too but it got drowned… It was given stepmotherly treatment.”
Rahman had recently shared the amount of hard work that goes into the making of one song. Hours after the release of the recreated version of his Delhi-6 song Masakali, Rahman had penned a note, asking his fans to listen to the original composition instead.
