Double Academy Award recipient and maestro musician A.R. Rahman has announced the premier of his latest passion project, through his social media accounts, which will stream on Zee5 real soon. Captioned ‘The heartfelt story of Guddu & friends is full of hopes, dreams & rythmic beats’, we expect this movie to be a children’s musical filled with soon-to-be A.R. Rahman classics.
During the announcement, he put up a motion poster announcing his new movie, Atkan Chatkan. The motion poster showed three children standing on a bus (which had the name Tansen Music Academy written on it), holding up Hindi alphabets which spelled into the name of the movie. It had a rhythmic and peppy beats which had ‘Rahman written all over it’.
In a climate where OTTs are thriving, and producing good content for children (young teenagers) is not the primary concern for streaming platforms, A.R Rahman is stepping outside of this usual trend and going back to his roots; creating beautiful music that brings joy to our inner child. This is what he has consistently done with his music and is exceptionally good at.
Creating amazing music, especially in musicals is where A.R Rahman usually thrives and we have no doubt his latest passion will give us his usual gold. With even Indian musicals being made less and less and OTTs opting for more Indian Web-series, A.R. Rahman is willing take the initiative and say that Indian musicals are worth the risk with the launch of Atkan Chatkan.
A. R. Rahman’s Atkan Chatkan will stream on Zee5 on Saturday, September 5th 2020. The movie will debut 14 year old musician Lydian Nadhaswaram, as an actor in Bollywood, through this venture.
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