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on 2007/3/14 5:59:27
Top Bollywood musician A R Rahman said on Tuesday he was working to create music that strikes a chord with Western audiences so that Indian film music could one day win an Oscar award.
Three of Rahman's compositions were short listed for an Academy award this year, but none of them eventually made it to the final Best Original Song category.
The 41-year-old composer blames this on the failure to create music that western audiences could identify with.
"We have to give something which they are accustomed to and then the chances of bagging the award increases," Rahman, known for experimenting with new instruments and sound, said on the sidelines of a news conference in New Delhi.
"We have to create music which is popular there."
Rahman was chosen by British composer Andrew Llyod Webber to compose music for his stage production ‘Bombay Dreams’ in 2002, a runaway success which brought the Indian composer international fame.
Though happy with his songs just being short listed for the Oscars, the stocky, reclusive musician, who first found Bollywood fame in 1992 and has since created hit music for several films, said Indian film music was not good enough to catch the western ear.
"We have to understand that the song we create here, the popular song, is alien to the western audience."
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