Musicians are winners, not losers, says A R Rahman

TIL Desk Bollywood/ Filmmakers usually show the rags to riches story in biopics of sports personalities, but music maestro A R Rahman says he fails to understand why musicians are often depicted as losers on the big screen.

Rahman feels people are only interested in making biopics on musicians, who have led a tragic life. “I think people are interested to do biopics on failed people or failed musicians who die of poverty or drug addiction,” the musician told.

“Even abroad if you look at ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’, the Coen brothers movie, it is all about how a guy fails, is disillusioned, is a drug addict, and gets thrown out of the house. So, that perception has to go. Musicians are not losers, they are winners,” he says.

Rahman says in his recently released film “One Heart: The AR Rahman Concert Film”, they talk about “celebrating music and not about failures or remorses.”