Oscar Hero

There are no words to appreciate the musical legendary A.R.Rahman. He takes Tamil language to world stage. The word he said in Tamil in the Oscar function was YELLA PUGHAZHUM IRAIVANUKKE (All praise to God). If I try to glorify about A.R, then I have to create a new blog even though it won’t be sufficient. So in this post I posted some information about him and also posted some rare pictures. This post is dedicated to Oscar winner A.R.Rahman.

Oscar Awards

Award from Abdul Kalam(X-President of India)

A.R with Koffi Anna

Lord of Rings composer group

Wedding day picture of A.R. with his wife Saira Banu

He doesn’t speak too much but his music speaks. There are many types of music like pop, jazz, karnatic, metal, opera, swing, bhangra, classical, techno etc. Each type of music was special to some set of people. But A.R’s aim is to create a universal music. All set of people must love the music. Hats off to A.R.Rahman.

His old band

Childhood pictures

A.R.Rahman's Family

Childhood pictures

Master Of James Bond

This picture is taken around 1899, later to assume the false identity of Sidney Reilly

As we all know the best movie series in Hollywood is James Bond. But most of us do not know the one who was the real cause for the creation of James Bond character. James bond character was created in the year 1953 by Ian Fleming. This character was admired by the real James bond, Sidney George Reilly.

Sidney Reilly at an experienced age

Georgi Rosenblum (Reilly) was born in Odessa, on 24th March 1874. In his young age, he was for carrying messages for a group called Friends of Enlightenment. In Brazil he adopted the name Pedro. He saved the life of his group when angry natives attacked them, so British agent major Fothergill awarded him £1500 and arranged him a passport and a trip to Britain where he adopted the name Sidney Rosenblum. An intelligent man who could speak seven languages, Rosenblum was recruited by MI6 and given the name Sidney Reilly. Reilly was sent to Moscow in 1918, by his own account to assassinate Lenin or attempt to overthrow the Bolsheviks. But Lenin escaped from the attempt and so Reilly returned to England.

Picture taken after the death of Reilly to put full stop about his rumors

In 1925, he was sent to spy on the communist government in Russia. OGPU agents arrested Reilly when he crossed the border and locked up in Lubyanka Prison. After numerous interrogations they got only little information from him. Stalin ordered his execution. OGPU agents drove with Reilly in the direction of Bogorodsk. He was shot in a forest near Moscow on November 5, 1925. There were some rumors aroused about his death and then it comes to an end later. Year after his death, Reilly, often referred to as the "Ace of Spies". In many ways, he continues to live on in literature, films and in the imagination. And he was the central inspiration for James Bond character.

Adolf Hitler - A German Hero

Everyone in this world likes to live as a Real-life hero. However, only few lead their life in a heroic path. Furthermore, one of the best heroes among them is Adolf Hitler. He may be a villain unless and until we see Hitler as a patriotic person. Most of us know about Hitler’s history but no one knows in the mystery of Hitler’s death. When the World War-II was firing like a hell in 1945, Hitler has ended his life. Hitler was totally distress by the betrayal of his friends and supporters. Soviets were fighting hardly and they were a mile away from Fuhrerbunker (Hitler’s living place). The last news to Hitler from outside world was the execution of his friend Mussolini.





On the noon of April 30 at 2 p.m. Hitler had his last meal which was a vegetarian lunch. Then Hitler and his wife Eva Braun went to their private quarters. Both were a newly married couple but lived together as a husband and wife in the bunker for less than 40 hours. After sometime a gunshot was heard. At 3:30 p.m., Bormann and Goebbels entered and found the body of Hitler sprawled on the sofa, dripping with blood from a gunshot. Eva Braun also had died from swallowing poison. However, his death is still a mystery, whether it is murder or suicide. A hero’s life thus ended in tragedy.

A.S.Dilip Kumar ---> A.R.Rahman

If there is a god for music then undoubtedly it is none other than A.R.Rahman (Musical God). A.R.Rahman holds the credit for totally overhauling the style in which music was being made in India. Though with a career spanning just over a decade, Rahman has already sold over one hundred million records world-wide and more than two hundred million cassettes. This makes him one of the world's top 10 all-time top selling recording artists. This rare picture was taken when he was four years old. His father, R K Shekhar, who were a composer, arranger and conductor for Malayalam films died when Rahman was just 9 years-old and his family rented out musical equipment as a source of income. Later there was a turning point when Dileep Kumar decided to re christen himself as A R Rahman. This incident happened when Rahman's sister was very ill once. A Muslim friend suggested if he prayed in a particular mosque, his sister would recover and so did happen. This caused the entire family to convert to Islam.





After that he worked hard to bring up his family. In the year 1991 he began his own studio and started making music for advertisements, television channels and so on. The first break in his life was the film Roja in the year 1992 directed by Mani Rathnam. Roja debut made AR Rahman bag the Rajat Kamal award for a best music director at the National Film Awards. This was a historic moment as for the first time ever in Indian film industry; this award was being handed to a first-time film composer. Thus the film Roja brought his career life to the crown.