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Nayla Al Khaja, widely recognized as the first female filmmaker from the UAE, is teaming with Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman on her very personal upcoming project, Baab. The collaboration came about in quite a simple way, Al Khaja told Deadline at our Cannes Studio: "I've always had my ears on his music and I just…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning composer and music producer A.R. Rahman and breakout recording artist Bishop Briggs are collaborating on a new song for Love Sonia, the human trafficking drama that marks the directorial debut of Slumdog Millionaire line producer Tabrez Noorani. Rahman and Briggs have recently been in-studio…

Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman is attending his first Cannes Film Festival, promoting two new projects. The first is Sangamithra, a Tamil-language historical drama in which a princess wants to take revenge, he tells me in the video above. The prolific artist has done the music for 160 films, working across 25…

While Tamil stars and films are perhaps not as well known outside of India as their Bollywood counterparts, they nevertheless have a huge fanbase within India (especially the south) and across the diaspora. Also known as Kollywood, the Tamil industry produces hundreds of feature films per year. The latest high-profile…