A. R. Rahman’s international career which has taken off in a big way after Slumdog Millionaire, keeps encountering snags, thanks to long-pending assignments back home.

According to sources Rahman has to keep interrupting his international plans to be home for various pending assignments. The harried composer is now seriously thinking of putting all home-made assignments on hold to concentrate on building his career abroad, or else he feels he would lose the international advantage he obtained after Slumdog Millionaire.

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K’Naan, the Somali singer and composer, whose World Cup song ‘Wavin’ Flag’ has become the most downloaded international song in India, has shown interest to work with Indian musicians.

Indians are also highly praising his ‘Wavin’ Flag’ number. The rapper has also complimented the Indian music saying that he loves the compositions of Indian music composer AR Rahman. K’Naan added, “I liked Indian music and I have heard many of them but cannot remember all the names. I remember one person AR Rahman as I love his music a lot, he is very good.”

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Indian music maestro AR Rahman has been performing overseas since last month and has received high appreciation for all his performances in the ‘Jai Ho’ concert.

But recently, the Oscar winning composer had to cancel the North American leg of his “Jai Ho Concert: The Journey Home World Tour”, as a lighting rig collapsed in Detroit just before the show.

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There has to be something really flawed about a film which is based on ‘Ramayana’, has Mani Ratnam at the helm of affairs, stars the Bachchan couple, boasts of music by A.R. Rahman and has the who’s-who from the technical department. Still, ‘Raavan’ hasn’t worked with the audience. We analyse why!

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Music maestro AR Rahman has millions of fans all over the world. One more name has been added to the list now; it is none other than the American pop singer Kylie Minogue.

Kylie was seen clapping and cheering him from the front row during the ‘Jai Ho’ at Chicago.

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Music maestro A R Rahman is ready to start his Music Tour ‘Jai Ho Concert: The Journey Home’ from June 11. He will be accompanied by renowned Bollywood singers and above all the composer will wear the designer clothes by none other than Ritu Beri.

The troupe will travel to 20 major cities across Noth America and Europe including Los Angeles, Washington, London, Dallas etc.

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Raavan’s music which released last month in April is a sensational hit already.

The music given by Oscar winning A R Rahman is beautiful as always. The lyrics by Gulzar, no need to say, make a way for themselves straight to your heart! No doubt the music of this much awaited flick is creating such a buzz.

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Rahman is working with the biggies and it’s not just in Bollywood now, but internationally too. Rahman’s expertise and and genius is known to all and he is definitely going places with his talent, especially after Slumdog Millionaire. After The Pussy Cat Dolls’ gig in the song ‘Jai Ho’ sent waves amongst the Indian masses going crazy over their oomph and sex appeal combined with the musical masterpiece, Rahman is gearing up for his upcoming tour in the U.K. and is in serious talks for working with the likes of Usher and Dido, who have shown interest in Indian music and are in talks for jamming with Rahman in his next album after the U.K. tour.

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“Rhyme Skool” a music CD of Saregama Music was recently launched by Saregama’s Apurv Nagpal along with Oscar winning music director A. R. Rahman and the gorgeous Katrina Kaif. The CD launch was held in Mumbai at the 5-star hotel “Intercontinental The Lalit”. On this occasion Saregama’s CEO Apurv Nagpal “I am very happy to launch the music CD of “The Rhyme Skool”. The launch of this CD was possible only due to the efforts taken by A. R. Rahman and Katrina Kaif. It was a joint initiative taken by all of us to launch a music CD only for kids. I am very thankful to both them and I owe it to them.

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