Who is Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock is one the musician that idolized by AR Rahman.
So here is a little bit of him


Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American pianist, bandleader and composer.As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Hancock's best-known solo works include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album "River: The Joni Letters" won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.
As a member of Soka Gakkai, Hancock is an adherent of the Nichiren school of Mahayana Buddhism.

Herbie's achievement



Academy Awards
1986, Original Soundtrack, for Round Midnight

Grammy Awards
1984, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Rockit
1985, Best R&B Instrumental Performance, for Sound-System
1988, Best Instrumental Composition, for Call Sheet Blues
1995, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for A Tribute to Miles
1997, Best Instrumental Composition, for Manhattan (Island Of Lights And Love)
1999, Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s), for St. Louis Blues
1999, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group, for Gershwin's World
2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, for Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall
2003, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for My Ship
2005, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, for Speak Like a Child
2008, Album of the Year, for River: The Joni Letters
2008, Best Contemporary Jazz Album, for River: The Joni Letters

Playboy Music Poll
Best Jazz Group, 1985
Best Jazz Keyboards, 1985
Best Jazz Album - Rockit, 1985
Best Jazz Keyboards, 1986
Best R&B Instrumentalist, 1987
Best Jazz Instrumentalist, 1988

Keyboard Magazine's Readers Poll
Best Jazz & Pop Keyboardist, 1983
Best Jazz Pianist, 1987
Best Jazz Keyboardist, 1987
Best Jazz Pianist, 1988

Other notable awards
MTV Awards (5 awards in total) - Best Concept Video - Rockit, 1983–84
Gold Note Jazz Awards - NY Chapter of the National Black MBA Association, 1985
French Award Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters-Paris, 1985
BMI Film Music Award "Round Midnight", 1986
U.S. Radio Award "Best Original Music Scoring - Thom McAnn Shoes", 1986
Los Angeles Film Critics Association "Best Score - Round Midnight", 1986
BMI Film Music Award "Colors", 1989
Soul Train Music Award "Best Jazz Album - The New Standard", 1997
Festival International Jazz de Montreal Prix Miles Davis, 1997
VH1's 100 Greatest Videos "Rockit" is "10th Greatest Video", 2001
NEA Jazz Masters Award, 2004
Downbeat Magazine Readers Poll Hall of Fame, 2005
Album of the Year, 2007
Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year, 2008


For More Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Hancock

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Rahman race again for Oscar

After bagging a Golden Globe nomination, music maestro A R Rahman is once again in Oscar race with his song If I Rise from 127 Hours making it to the Academy shortlist for the Original Song category.

A total of 41 tunes, including the number that Rahman wrote for Danny Boyle's film, will be judged for Oscar considerations by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Clips featuring the songs will be viewed by the members of the music branch, who will vote to determine the final nominees on January 6, Academy's official website said unveiling the list today.

It is a happy coincident for Rahman, who had a similar golden run in the award circuits in 2009. The 44-year-old singer-composer won his first Golden Globe in 2009 in the Best Original Score category for Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, which also went on to fetch him two Oscar statuettes later.

The musician's song for Couples Retreat had also made it to the shortlist last year but failed to fetch a nomination for him.
Rahman has already received rave reviews for his music in 127 Hours, starring James Franco as real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston, who cut off his arm to escape from beneath a boulder after being trapped for more than five days.

If I Rise is a collaboration between Rahman and American popstar Dido.

Musical Burlesque with its three songs is leading the shortlist while two tunes each from Black Tulip, Country Strong and Despicable Me are in the race.

To be selected for the nominations, a song must score an 8.25 rating or higher and Academy members are known to be choosy when it comes to rounding up the nomination list, which could feature as few as two songs or none.

If only one song receives a 8.25 score, that song and the song with next highest score will be selected as nominees. A maximum of five nominees will be chosen.

This year's shortlist includes Randy Newman for his contribution to the Disney-Pixar toon Toy Story 3 song We Belong Together, You Haven't Seen the Last of Me and Bound to You from Burlesque; I See the Light, Coming Home from Country Strong and There's a Place for Us from Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

The nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards will be unveiled January 25 while the award ceremony will take place on February 27 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood
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AR Rahman performance - The Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2010

AR Rahman performance at The Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2010 – Details

1. Mausam and Escape – Slumdog Millionare performed by Azad on Sitar | AR Rahman on Piano
2. Jai Ho – Slumdog Millionaire
   performed by : AR Rahman, Shweta Pandit, Tanvi Shah and Neeti Muhan

AR Rahman performance at The Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2010 – Tracklist

Artists >

1. Barry Manilow
2. Herbie Hancock
3. Jamiroquai
4. Robyn
5. Florence + the Machine
6. Colbie Caillat
7. India.Aria
8. A.R. Rahman
9. Sivert Høyem

for more info visit official website

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Oslo: Oscar winning Indian musician AR Rahman has joined pop stars Barry Manilow and Jamiroquai in the lineup of artists to perform at the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo.


Rahman, who won two Academy awards for his score in `Slumdog Millionaire` will feature in the December 11 show honoring this year`s peace laureate, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.


Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington will host the concert, which is always held a day after the prize ceremony.


Previously announced performers include British pop band Florence and the Machine, US pop singer Colbie Caillat, pianist Herbie Hancock and singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. 

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Barry Manilow and Jamiroquai are to take the stage at next month's Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, it has been announced.


The AP reports that Manilow and the 'Virtual Insanity' band have signed up for the annual event, which honours the Nobel Peace Prize winner each December.


The gig's organisers also confirmed that Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman will take part in the December 11 tribute to this year's laureate, detained Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.


It was previously reported that Colbie Caillat, Elvis Costello and Florence and the Machine are also scheduled to perform.


Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington will host the event.

Watch Nobel Peace Prize Concert on NRK1 @ Saturday 11th December ( Norwegian Time GMT +1 ) Add 4hours and 30mins if u r In India
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Tracks performed :

1 - Mausam and Escape -- Slumdog Millionare
performed by Azad on Sitar | AR Rahman on Piano

2 - Jai Ho -- Slumdog Millionaire
performed by : AR Rahman, Shweta Pandit, Tanvi Shah and Neeti Muhan


A R Rahman yesterday (11-12-2010) performed at Norway in the Nobel Peace Prize Concert honoring this year's winner Liu Xiaobo, alongside the likes of veterans like Herbie Hancock.

ARR played two tracks from the soundtrack that gave him worldwide recognition, Slumdog Millionaire. First was Escape, the one which had featured some amazing sitar playing by Asad Khan, only yesterday Rahman conjured up a much more haunting improvised version of the track! The second one was Jai Ho, Rahman singing the song alongside Shweta Pandit, Tanvi Shah and Neeti Muhan to a dance performance

Video and audio courtesy : www.nrk.no .No copyright infringement meant. Video published under fair usage policy
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Toyota Etios BY ARR

The Toyota Etios is a car developed by Toyota for India's automobile market. It was officially presented in January 2010 in an Auto Show in India. The car will be launched December 2010. The car will be available in hatchback and sedan versions. It will be manufactured in a Banglore plant. It will be the biggest project in India by Toyota.

Engine Capacity and Performance  Toyota Etios will step in India in sedan and hatchback variants. The hatchback will be powered by a 1.1 liter petrol DOHC 8 valve petrol engine while the sedan might be loaded with 1.3 liter DOHC 4 valve petrol mill. The 1.1L petrol engine is supposed to produce 60 bhp whereas the 1.3L petrol engine is believed to make 80 bhp. Both engines will be equipped with dual camshaft and four valves per cylinder which ensure increased power and torque with better fuel efficiency. However, Variable Valve Timing (VVTi) would be missing. This is probably to keep the Toyota Etios price low. Here it is to be mentioned that the company has done enough home work to make the engine powerful and fuel efficient which is supposed to be less due to absence of VVTi. For the same, the engine has been upgraded with latest technologies that ensure less power loss. The engine of Toyota Etios are packed with standard pistons which might come with molybdenum coating. Initially, the car will be available in petrol variant only and diesel engine plans are not in the focus.

Toyota spent Rs 200 crore to develop the Etios and increased the number of Toyota dealers in India to 150.

It will be manufactured in Bangalore, Karnataka in 2010 and possibly also in Brazil in 2015.Original Post

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127 Hours – Music Review

The album opener by Free Blood, Never Hear Surf Music Again starts off with an interesting arrangement but then moves on to total pandemonium! If you fast forward that noisy one minute or so, things get mildly interesting again. In any case, whether or not you hear Surf music again, chances are you will listen to THIS music again. J And then enters The A R Rahman with Canyon. There is nothing much in the track, just a strings section with probably some keys in the background. A purely situational piece.  But things start picking up with Liberation triad. The first one, Liberation Begins, is again a functional track with pretty much nothing apart from a guitar strumming on a plain loop. But Liberation In A Dream sees Rahman build on that plain loop to create a haunting track. And in Liberation ARR adds a lot more instruments, reaching a wonderful crescendo!
Acid Darbari is a sedate composition in raag Darbari. The continuum fingerboard and the strings section form a very heart-rending combo. The song has a very South-Indian feel though, complete with the shouting sounds in the background. Touch Of The Sun is another minimally orchestrated situational track, and hence would be better viewed than listened to as a track. RIP sounds quite like a requiem as it should, Harshdeep Kaur doing a brilliant job of complementing Rahman’s orchestration that gets superbly pacy towards the end. ARR’s final track, If I Rise comes in the form of a collaboration with Dido, the composer himself doing the vocals alongside the singer. The orchestration here is mesmerizingly serene, highlighted by the motif on what sounds again like the continuum fingerboard. Towards the end there is also a sweet cameo by the Gleehive Children’s Choir from Mumbai.
Of the remaining tracks, three are reworks of yesteryear classics and need no specific comments, wonderful as the originals were. Bill Withers’ 1977 hit Lovely Day, Esther Phillips’ If You Love Me (which was itself a cover of Edith Piaf’s 1950 hit Hymne à l’amour), Plastic Bertrand’s Ca Plane Pour Moi all sound beautiful. Vladimir Ashkenazy’s tribute to Chopin with his version of Nocturne No. 2 is as much an exhibition of Ashkenazy’s talent as it is of the composition’s beauty. The soundtrack ends with Sigur Ros rendering Festival. The nine minute long track starts off on a very un-Sigur Ros-ish note, before shifting gears halfway through to their typical style.
127 Hours surely won’t enjoy the popularity that Danny Boyle-AR Rahman’s Slumdog Millionaire did, but to me this soundtrack rates above Slumdog as it is such albums that show the class act that ARR truly is.
You can see the complete album credits here.
Music Aloud Rating – 8.75/10
Recommended Tracks – Acid Darbari ,Liberation, RIP, If I Rise, Festival
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127 Hours Full Album Credit

ALBUM CREDITS

Starring : James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn

Music Composed and Produced by : A. R. Rahman

Produced by : Christian Colson and Danny Boyle

Studio : Fox Searchlight, Pathe

Directed by : Danny Boyle

Label : Interscope Records

Music Credits: Never Hear Surf Music Again Free Blood (John Pugh) Published by Rong Music ASCAP Courtesy of Rong Music 2007 Rong Music Lovely Day Bill Withers (Bill Withers/ Skip Scarborough) Published by Unichappell Music Inc (BMI) Golden Withers Music (ASCAP) Courtesy of Columbia Records By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing 1977 Sony Music Entertainment Chopin Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat, Op. 9 No. 2 Vladimir Ashkenazy Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited Under license from Universal Music Enterprises 1985 Decca Music Group Limited Ca Plane Pour Moi Plastic Bertrand (Francis Jean Deprijck/Yves Maurice Lacomblez) Published by Universal Music Publishing MGB Ltd. (SABAM/SACEM) Courtesy of AMC Records SA-NV By arrangement with The Licensing Partnership UK Ltd 1977 AMC Records SA-NV If You Love Me (Really Love Me) Esther Phillips Original French lyrics by Edith Piaf Adaptation by Geoffrey Parsons Music by Marguerite Monnot Published by Editions Raoul Breton (SACEM) Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film and TV Licensing 1964 Atlantic Recording Corporation Festival Sigur Ros (Jon Thor Birgisson/Orri Pall Dyrason/ Georg Holm/Kjartan Sveinsson) Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd (PRS) Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd. 2008 XL Recordings 2008 Sigur Ros under exclusive license to EMI Records Ltd. If I Rise Dido and A. R. Rahman Music by A. R. Rahman Lyrics by Dido Armstrong and Rollo Armstrong Published by Fox Film Music Corp. (BMI), KM Musiq Admin by Universal Music Publishing (BMI), Warner/Chappell Music Limited (PRS) A. R. Rahman performs courtesy of KM Musiq Dido performs courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Orchestral: Orchestrator and Orchestral Conductor: Matt Dunkley Orchestra Leader: Perry Montague-Mason Orchestral Conductor: Isobel Griffiths Orchestral Assistant: Lucy Whalley Original Score Mixer: Andy Richards Sound Engineering and Additional Programming: Viviane Chaix Recording Studios: KM Musiq Studios, Air Studios, Miloko Studios, Hear No Evil Recording Studio (London); Panchathan Record-Inn (Chennai) and Nirvana Studios (Mumbai) Choir: The Gleehive Children's Choir, Mumbai Choir recorded at: Octavious Studio, Mumbai Choir arranged by: Clinton Cerejo Choir supervised by: Dominique Cerejo Choir Editing: Premier Digital Mastering Studios, Mumbai Choir sound engineers: Aditya Modi, Nitish Kumar Sound Engineering and Additional Programming: Deepak P. A. Music and Score Assistant: Anne-Marie O'Sullivan Music co-ordinators: Samidurai and T. M. Faizuddin Featured Musicians: Ranjit Barot - Drums Sanjay Divecha, Joel Shearer - Guitars Karl Peters - Bass Pete Lockett - Percussion Vocalist: Harshdeep Kaur Soundtrack album mastered by: Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, Hollywood, CA Album Engineers/Mixers: Viviane Chaix, Deepak P. A., K. J. Singh Original Film Score Published by Fox Film Music Corp. (BMI) Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2010 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Administrative Credits: Executive in Charge of Music for Twentieth Century Fox: Robert Kraft Music Supervised for Twentieth Century Fox: Amy Driscoll Business Affairs for Twentieth Century Fox: Tom Cavanaugh Music Production Coordinator: Rebecca Morellato Music Clearance: Ellen Ginsburg Music Consultant: Ian Neil Soundtrack Produced by: A. R. Rahman Soundtrack Executive Produced by: Danny Boyle Executive Producer for Interscope Records: Tony Seyler Business Affairs for Interscope Records: Marnie Nieves Marketing for Interscope Records: Ingrid Erickson Soundtrack Production: Gretchen Anderson Art Direction: Dina Hovsepian I want to thank Danny Boyle, Christian Colson and Fox Searchlight for making this bold film... Dido for lending her healing voice to "If I Rise". Want to thank my team in the UK and Mumbai for helping me complete the score... In record time... (Matt Dunkley, Viviane Chaix, Anne-Marie O'Sullivan, Ranjit Barot and his band, Joel Shearer, Aditya Modi and Clinton, John Warhurst, Jeanette Haley, Andy Richards) Thanks Sam Schwartz for your persistence... :) Thanks to my Spiritual teacher for his guidance... And above all to the Creator for blessing us with good things still! - A. R. Rahman Thank you: Alexander Beltran, Erin Bergers, Steve Berman, Simon Beaufoy, Jason Bentley, Kate Benay, Kathryn Braddick, Christian Colson, Benjamin M. Cook, Dennis Dennehy, Kathy Doherty, Dancemaster Todd Douglas, Allison Elbl, Ron Fair, Aaron Foreman, Jurge Grebner, Jeanette Haley, Paul Hatcher, Kerry Hickey, Rand Hoffman, Jimmy Lovine, Tomoko Itoki, Cary Jones, Dyana Kass, Robert Kelley, Gary Kelly, Martin Kierszenbaum, Diana LaPointe, Annick Lestabel, Jeffery Taylor Light, Julie Lockwood, Robert Minzer, Terry McBride, Diane McKain, Cathy Merenda, Bob Merlis, Ted Mico, Laura Netra, Amos Newman, Cindy Noriega, Anne-Marie O'Sullivan, Jo Ann Orgel, Deepak P. A., Edna Pletchetero, David Ponak, Greg Prink, Areli Quirarte, Aron Ralston, Carmen Rizzo, Ryan Rodriguez, Brenda Romano, Sam Schwartz, Jean-Marie Sohie, Chris Stephenson, Ryan Stockwell, Raquel Taylor, Roya Vakili, Jeanne Venton, Angela Vredenburg, Luke Wood, Ike Youssef, John Warhurst, Christine Wolff, Barbara Zamoyska

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Guys do u love ENTHIRAN BGM??????

Remember the scene where the bad chitthi robo will kidnap sana from the wedding hall and then fight with cops........ and remember there will be a BGM in techno bit ........ Here you go click on below link for the MP3 file.... Enjoy guys

Version 2.0 Enthiran BGM

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ARR to perform @ Nobel Peace Prize Concert

It has been officially announced that our own AR Rahman will perform at the 17th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert on December 11 in Oslo, Norway.

 

The two-time Grammy and Academy Award winning artiste will join a star studded line-up of musicians that include Barry Manilow, Jamiroquai, India.Arie, Florence + The Machine, Herbie Hancock, Robyn, Elvis Costello and Colbie Caillat. Academy Award winning Actor Denzel Washington will host the event, which will be broadcast around the world following the Nobel Peace Prize Awards.  

 

The performance comes at a time of international critical acclaim for AR Rahman’s score for the recently released Danny Boyle film 127 Hours. 127 Hours marks the second collaboration for ARR and Danny Boyle.  

 

Currently AR Rahman is in the middle of his world tour and he will perform for the first time in South Africa this November. Rahman’s performance will be part of the 150th anniversary of Indian presence in the nation and caps off a national celebration of Indian culture in South Africa. The tour kicks off on November 20th at The Sun City Superbowl.

With text from INDIAGLITZ

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Rahman's FAV TOP 5

Music maestro A R Rahman has listed out five songs, all composed by him, which he considers his best. “Though I like all my songs, these numbers are close to my heart”, he said.

“Narumugaiye… from Iruvar, Ennavale… from Kadhalan, Margazhi Thingal Allava from Sangamam, Kadhal… from Udhaya and Veerapandi Kottaiyile… from Thiruda Thiruda are those five songs”, he said in an interview to a Tamil magazine.

Throwing light on his spiritual side, the Oscar-Grammy winner said, “One can lead his spiritual life in a simple way or in a complex way. I am following what elders have preached. I can now see no difference between joy and sorrow”.

Saying that his aim is to create more musicians, the Mozart of Madras added: “I need huge amount of money to start music schools and to run them. Hollywood projects can help me earn. But I can’t accept all the offers that come my way just for the sake of money”.
(With Text From indiaglitz.com)

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CWG 2010 Theme Song official music video --A R RAHMAN--Jiyo Uthho Bado Jeeto

 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkP-6Ddg-w&feature=fvst

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What To Expect From Endhiran

So all eyes and are waiting for ‘Endhiran’ the movie and the ears have already got its fodder in the ‘Endhiran’ music that was released on July 31. This Shankar's futuristic film ‘Endhiran: The Robot’ will be a real science-fiction in Tamil after many decades. It is also going to be the biggest Tamil film ever made not just in terms of the money spent on production but also on the line up cast and crew assembled for the film. It stars Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai in the lead roles. Other major stars in the film include Danny Denzongpa, Santhanam and Kalabavan Mani. The film is a trilingual having Tamil, Telugu and Hindi versions.

Rajini plays dual roles in ‘Endhiran’. One is a scientist Vaseegaran and the other is a Robot called Chitti. The scientist Rajini creates an android man with artificial intelligence – like that of sixth sense in humans – which looks exactly like him and behaves too like a human to help mankind. But the robot later acquires more human characters. He through technical upgrades and becomes almost human. It falls in love with Aishwarya Rai and writes romantic poems besides doing many other things. Knowing about the extra ordinary intelligence of the Robot the villains lead by Danny Denzongpa try to get control of the Robot. Scientist Rajini then fights to save the Robot falling into the hands of the enemies and destroys the evil forces using the Robot itself.

‘Endhiran’ was a dream of director Shankar. After the stupendous success of ‘Sivaji’ in 2007, Shankar decided to go ahead with the project. The story was developed by Sujatha. He was the one who wrote the finest sci-fi novel ‘En Iniya Iyanthira’. He must have been inspired a lot by the Issac Asimov’s robot story ‘Bicentennial Man’ published in 1975.

If the Tamil film is going to be the biggest ever film who else but the Super Star fit to head the film? The Super Star was signed. For the heroine Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone were considered and Ash was finalized. For the main villain Telugu star Chakravarthi was first considered and later the Bollywood legend Danny Denzongpa was signed. All most all the biggest names in Indian cinema were tossed up to do at least a character.

In January 2008 ‘Endhiran’ was announced to be produced by Ayngaran International along with Eros Labs. The film was growing and the budget was escalating. At one point the international production companies wanted to leave the project and Sun Pictures came to the rescue.  In 2009 ‘Endhiran’ was officially taken over by Sun Pictures.

After Sun Pictures took over, the 200-crore film progressed fast and got completed in July 2010. The first schedule of ‘Endhiran’ commenced with the filming of “Kilimanajro” song featuring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai at the historic location of the Machu Picchu in Peru. The final schedule was fittingly wrapped up at the Sun Studios in Chennai.

The technical crew of ‘Endhiran’ is hand picked by Shankar from all over the world comprising the best of the world.

The script is by late Sujatha, Shankar and Balakumaran. Yuen Woo Ping who designed action scenes for films like The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Forbidden Kingdom is the stunt co-co-ordinator for ‘Endhiran’. Also our own Peter Hein has done a great job.

Stan Winston Studios which handled visual effects for iconic films like Aliens, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park took care of the animatronics in the film. Shankar has used animatronics technology, seen in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park trilogy for ‘Endhiran’.

The spectacular effects are made real by the superior combination lighting cinematography of Rathnavelu. Editing is by Anthony and the dance choreography for ‘Endhiran’ is by Raju Sundaram and Claudia Bruckmann.

Industrial Light & Magic that handled the special effects for films like Avatar, Star Wars, and Titanic worked on visual and special effects. Buzz says about 40 per cent of the budget was spent on the special effects.

And for the music there is no comparison. The audio of ‘Endhiran’ was officially released on July 31. The best thing about the songs of ‘Endhiran’ is that they are A Rajini Rahman numbers. In his earlier films for Rajini ARR stayed away from his style of music and blended with the Super Star image more. But in ‘Endhiran’ both high values are independent yet complementing each other.

With ‘Endhiran’, Kalanidhi Maran and Hansraj Saxena of Sun Pictures are debuting as official producers. Sun Pictures has tied up with the reputed international distributors HBO to release ‘Endhiran’ with English subtitles in the West. ‘Endhiran’ is expected to hit world screens with nearly 1500 prints in three languages. In the process for the first time China will screen a Rajini film.

Come September, there’s no territory left untouched by the magnetism of Super Stat Rajinikath. With stunning film like ‘Endhiran’, Kollywood is surely all set to make a mark in world cinema. 

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Endhiran Piracy Alert

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nti Piracy Group (APG) is protecting Superstar Rajinikanth-starrer Endhiran/Robot (2010) against online piracy. Since the overseas theoretical screening and DVD rights are owned by FICUS Entertainment (www.ficusmovies.com), APG would pursue legal action as per DMCA rules against individuals/websites who distributes pirated links/sharing files/torrent files of Endhiran/Robot.



Notices regarding this have been issued to various torrent websites that have actively indulging in online piracy in the recent times.

Endhiran/Robot is a graphic-rich movie and its EFX can be experienced only in theatres. APG requests movie buffs not to encourage piracy. Should you find Endhiran/Robot pirated videos online please report immediately at antipiracygroupllc@gmail.com!

Endhiran Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-uJEQk3m0s

Guys enjoy looking forward for great BGMs from our boss ARR

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CWG 2010 Theme song REVIEW

This is Rahman's message to world on India and guys are we ready?????? The track starts with a scary slow number for first 45 second scary because i thought come rehman jii no... no slow number for sport theme. RELIEF Rahman was playing a trick here...... the electric guitar cames in saying "are yar" nothing is less here yeaahhh.As usual our boss sings the song with a attitude. No one else could blend sitars and guitars this well, the feel of sport has been carried right from second 45' of the track till the end and the feels is not same. At times you feel proud, at times motivated, at times energetic. REHMAN proved again that he is ---------- you guys knows.



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NEW commonwealth game TUNE from ARR yeaaaa

Guys review will come soon enjoy the song first. Let enjoy kinda exotic song with some nice guitar and sitar love itttttt

http://FastFreeFileHosting.com/file/44791/CWG-Theme-Song-mp3.html  Click here to download

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Questions to Rahman

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what you think music will be in 10 years?

What is the percentage of Tamil in you still?

A person should be transparent or diplomatic?

Are u using a Nokia music express with airtel line?

What really happened between you and Harris?

What will impress you knowledge in music or the attitude towards music?

Do you think the best from AR Rahman has recorded?

Do you download music from other music director from net?

Why Mani Ratnam can shift from Ilayaraja to ARR but not ARR to anyone else?

Tags like "An ARR Musical" on film posters what did you think about it ?? Cool??

What is religion to you yo be practiced or to be observed?

What is love why you always choose that on top of hate?Anyway who you hate?

Do you speak any Chinese Language if not what was encouraging you to compose for warriors of heaven and earth?

What id GOD to you?

Is there something greater than GOD?

Why you think slumdog millionaire is the one that bagged you the Oscar? Do you believe if thats really your best composition till date?

If you think slumdog millionaire bagged the Oscar because language barrier then you were claiming that music has no language, What you have to say on this?

Any different you find in Vijay Prakash who sing for you in NEW and ENDHIRAN ?

As a music director what AR Rehana lacks in your opinion?

GV Makes you proud of him yet?

Can we expect more song without saranam and pallavis in future cause i liked VTV a lot?

Why there is no concerts in South east Asia after the Unity of Lights we missing you here?

More Q to came.........

Endhiran Album Launch 2

Endhiran Album Launch

Guys the review on the show is on the way here's some of the coverage pictures.

Excuse for low quality of the photo's grab it from my phone. ENJOYYY