Khatija rahman biography of mahatma
In an interview with THE WEEK, singer Khatija Rahman talks about becoming a composer, her father, AR Rahman, her views on Sufism and about keeping her inner..
'I want my own music to speak': A.R. Rahman’s daughter Khatija
It cannot be easy being Khatija Rahman―with all the comparisons with her father, the legendary A.R.
Rahman, and the weight of expectation threatening to keel her over. Yet, Khatija’s spine is straight and her sight is fixed. Like her father, music for her too is oxygen, but the comparisons end there.
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Khatija believes in her own creative spirit and wants to stay independent. “I want my own music to speak,” she says. With her debut as a composer in Halitha Shameem’s Minmini, which released last month, Khatija has proved that her music cannot just speak, it can also beguile.
Her compositions in Minmini do not resemble her father’s; there is a softness and silkiness to them. As composer, Khatija has arrived.
Clad in a red salwar, with a mask and a veil pa