A.R.Rahman's Roja goes to Hollywood
Ace director Maniratnam's 'Roja', which starred Arvind Swamy and Madhubala in lead roles, released in the early nineties and became an overnight hit. The film, which was about the deep-rooted terrorism in Kashmir Valley, created a nation-wide furore when dubbed into Hindi with the same title. The film also marked the musical debut of the Oscar award-winning A.R.Rahman.
Efforts are now made, after almost two decades of the film's release, to dub the film into English and take it to Hollywood. Rahman, on learning about the progress of the dubbing work into English, has come forward on his own (despite his busy schedule) to make a telling and significant contribution.
Rahman is said to be planning to score a new set of background music for the English version of 'Roja' while deciding to retain the songs as they are. Whether or not the title of the film would be also be altered/ changed to 'attract' the English audience would be known in a couple of weeks.
This is the first time in the history of Tamil films that a Tamil film is dubbed into English to cater to the Hollywood audience. What sort of response that film generates is something that's to be waited and judged!
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