Rahman beautiful tackle his music Khwaja Mere Khwaja

Rahman on Khwaja Mere Khwaja. Film lovers can’t overlook the music Khwaja Mere Khwaja from the hit movie Jodha Akbar which starred Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan beneath the path of Ashutosh Gowariker.

The music turned out to be one of many chartbusters and remains to be probably the most listened music. Now Rahman mentioned that the music was by no means meant for Jodha Akbar. He mentioned “I’d gone to Ajmer. One of many Khadims there mentioned, ‘Why don’t you do a music on Khwaja? You’re not doing one. You’ve achieved ‘Piya Haji Ali’ (from Khalid Mohamed’s 2000 motion thriller Fiza).’ I mentioned, ‘I don’t know. I’m not getting it. Why don’t you pray I ought to get it?,’”

A number of months later, whereas flying to Australia, Rahman discovered himself combating the melody for a romantic quantity. “I wasn’t getting the tune proper,” he recalled. “So I attempted experimenting with it as a music devoted to Khwaja. I recorded the complete observe and requested lyricist Kashif to finish it. A yr later, Ashutosh Gowariker got here to me with Jodhaa Akbar.”

He added Gowariker defined a sequence in Jodhaa Akbar the place Emperor Akbar, performed by Hrithik Roshan, visits the Ajmer Dargah. “I mentioned, ‘Wait, I’ve a music!’ However he instructed me he didn’t need a full music — simply two traces. I instructed him it’s a whole composition,” Rahman laughed.

When Gowariker heard Khwaja Mere Khwaja, he was moved. “He held my arms and stored saying, ‘Please give this music to me.’ I mentioned, ‘Okay, however you’ll be able to’t change something.’ After which, two years later, I received the Oscars,” Rahman smiled, calling the music “Khwaja’s blessings.”