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Early this summer, Rahman took time out of his schedule to meet GQ at the Jio Studios office in Mumbai. Despite a long day of interviews and meetings, he greets me with a radiant smile. Over the next 20-odd minutes, Rahman is at his charming best, as he talks about his foray into the world of film-making and living the Hollywood dream, his sentences sometimes bumping into each other as he jumps from idea to idea with childlike enthusiasm.
What motivated this lateral move into film-making?
While I was working in Hollywood, I had ample time to learn new things. You can get instructors to teach you script-writing, screenplay-writing, etc. So I did just that. I worked with an instructor who taught me how to develop my stories, all the important pillars of story-writing. And once I learned that, many ideas kept coming.
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