People often wake up in the middle of the night if jolted by a nightmare. But when A R Rahman suddenly woke up from one of his power naps a few months ago, he was humming a tune. “I had to write it down immediately,” he says, “I was afraid I might forget it.” When he later played the tune to director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who was in Chennai for the Rang De Basanti recordings, Mehra insisted he wanted the tune for his film. “I told him I thought there was no scope for this kind of song in his film,” Rahman says, chuckling, “but he said he would create the situation. I thought, well, it’s his headache.” [More]

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