3 minutes of readingBombayFebruary 1, 2026 09:37 am
Last month, AR Rahman made headlines for suggesting that the Hindi film industry They may have become more “communal” in recent years.. He later clarified that his intentions were misinterpreted. Now, in the latest episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show, the Oscar-winning music composer pointed out how the whispering game played on the show was a great way to demonstrate how messages get corrupted in transit.
“This is a good exercise to see how information is misinterpreted. Different states, different cultures. The problem with the world is this: how messages get corrupted along the way,” he said.
AR Rahman was on the show to promote his latest film as a composer, Kishor Pandurang Belekar’s silent film Gandhi Talks, along with the cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Aditi Rao Hydari and Siddharth Jadhav.
Talking about the music of Gandhi Talks, Rahman said: “If there are no dialogues, it is a great celebration of music. Because you have all the space to make music, but it is also terrifying because people will be judged. Every note will be exposed.” But he also added that Belekar is the first filmmaker who finds no fault in any of his compositions. “He’s the first director who never came to me and said something negative to me and said, ‘I don’t like this.’ Everything I give, he takes. Even if I played ‘tang,’ he’d say yes,” the Oscar-winning composer joked.
Earlier, AR Rahman talked about how around 2019, filmmakers would appreciate his old albums. lighting gas on him to make him believe that I was no longer doing a good job. “Over the last six years, to be frank, when people come to you, the ’90s generation has a certain nostalgia, a certain affinity towards your music. The same goes for those born in the 2000s, and so on with those of the next decade. They come and fool you. They say: ‘In the ’90s, you did Roja (1992). That’s very good music, sir!’ It seems like you’re not making good music now, right? “It actually hurts your mindset if you’re not in your best mood,” Rahman told The Hollywood Reporter India.
That prompted him to make between 20 and 30 films in the last six years, which allowed him to evolve as an artist and regain faith in himself. However, in an interview with BBC Asian Network, Rahman also revealed that he has been offered less work in the last eight years due to a “power shift” in the Hindi film industry. “Maybe in the last eight years because a power shift has happened and non-creative people have the power now. It may also be a communal thing… but it’s not in my face. It comes to me like a Chinese whisper that you were hired, but the music company went ahead and hired their five composers,” Rahman said. His comments created a furor and forced him to offer clarification a couple of days later.