Musician AR Rahman has attained global recognition through the course of his illustrious career, and following his footsteps, his son, singer AR Ameen, also became a part of the music industry. Recently, he released a song in collaboration with his father, Bheegi Bheegi featuring Dulquer Salmaan and Mrunal Thakur, and he calls it an “honour and a privilege” to get to work with him: “It was a great and a very nice feeling to have him with me on the song. We have a lot of respect for each other professionally too.”
Watch the entire chat with AR Ameen and Mrunal Thakur here:
Coming into the same field as his father AR Rahman, especially considering the legacy he has built, comes with its own set of challenges and expectations, but AR Ameen is unperturbed by it. “It comes with the territory. The whole package is that there is hate and there is love. I’m trying to pave my own path. I’m not trying to be like anyone and I hope my originality stays. What I have learnt from his journey is that don’t judge a book by its cover,” he says.
Getting Dulquer Salmaan and Mrunal Thakur to reunite in his music video after Sita Ramam was a surprise to Ameen himself. “In their respective busy schedules, I’m very grateful and glad that the timing could work where both of them could come and make this happen. I didn’t expect DQ sir or Mrunal to say yes. It all happened like last minute and we’d been planning the song from last February and it released this February. So it has had its own journey,” he says.
Today, when music is not just about the actors it is picturised on but also about the musicians who have worked on it getting credit, Ameen feels fortunate to be working in this time. “We should respect every person from the lightman to the person serving us food, which is a very important role in itself. Everyone is putting a lot of time and effort into every role. So respecting them and the musicians is really important and I just want to convey that message and have a platform where I can bring up more people and give recognition to all of them. That’s the whole plan,” he ends.