AR Rahman on getting pigeonholed in Hollywood after Oscar win: ‘Oh Indian stuff, let’s go to AR!’

In an interview with Taarini Kaur Dang for Forbes, AR Rahman said, “As an Indian composer, winning an Oscar and all that stuff, there is a pigeonhole you are put into. ‘Oh Indian stuff, let’s go to AR!’ Even though I have done 127 Hours, Pele and other stuff but still the urge… There’s nothing bad with that. I am doing a lot of Indian movies. I love doing Indian movies. I am proud. But I also love to do something that is completely unrelated to India, as a creative expression. To get those is very difficult in Hollywood, all the places are already taken.”

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Le Musk had its premiere at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The VR film, Rahman said, was born when he was jamming with his wife, and the couple came up with the story.

“There were many things on my mind, like, why can’t we do it in English, why can’t that go from India to the world. There was some risk involved, but not that much because we funded it mostly ourselves and had kind funding from others. Luckily, we got fantastic feedback when we premiered it at the Cannes festival.”

Le Musk, billed as a 37 minute “cinematic sensory experience”, is about an orphaned heiress and musician Juliet Merdinian (Nora Arnezeder), who is on the trail of three mysterious men with distinct scents.