National Film Awards 2024: The winners of the National Award have been announced on August 16, 2024. This list also includes the name of a very popular singer and music composer of Bollywood and South cinema. The special thing is that this singer has been awarded the National Award for the seventh time for his music.
This singer and music composer is none other than AR Rahman, who has been awarded the Best Music Director award for ‘Ponniyin Selvan: 1’. AR Rahman has received the National Award for the seventh time, but do you know that once singer Alka Yagnik had refused to work with AR Rahman, who has earned a name in the music world today.
Alka Yagnik got an offer to work with AR Rahman
In an interview with Radio Nasha, Alka Yagnik told how when she got an offer to work with AR Rahman for the film ‘Roja’, she refused. Alka Yagnik said- ‘AR Rahman was a new name at that time. No one knew him especially in Bombay. He was popular in the South. He was a very young boy then. At that time I got a call from Chennai that a new musician named AR Rahman has come. He is your fan. He is writing songs for a film and he wants you and Kumar Sanu to sing the entire sound track.’
Why did you reject the offer?
Alka further said- ‘But the problem was that they wanted me to come immediately. But, my dates were booked for a long time and the fact is that I had worked so much with the musicians in Bombay and had built such a good relationship that I did not want to leave them. Apart from this, I did not know who AR Rahman was. I did not know his capabilities.’
‘I felt very embarrassed…’
Alka Yagnik further told that she worked with AR Rahman next. She said, ‘The next time I worked with Rahman, as soon as he met me, he said that you did not sing my old songs. I felt very embarrassed, I wanted to bury myself inside the ground. It was completely my loss.’