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India and Pakistan must cooperate to fight air pollution — the health of their citizens is at stake. For nearly three decades now, several attempts have been made to decode the enigma that is Allah Rakha Rahman is. The phenomenally talented Oscar-winning music composer is also an introvert, and thus remains something of a mystery.

The page book offers rare insights into the life of the year-old musician who put India on the map of world music — the impact of the death of his father, music composer RK Shekhar, which forced nine-year-old Rahman to become the sole breadwinner of the family, his unplanned foray into composing for films, his entry onto the world stage, and his current plans of becoming a filmmaker.

Trilok is the son of Sharada Krishnamoorthy and Trilok Nair, the advertising filmmakers from Chennai who gave Rahman his earliest break as a composer of jingles. He had a profound influence on his son. Up until he was 16, Rahman balanced his studies with musical assignments, which included assisting composers during recording sessions, playing the keyboard and fixing musical equipment.

Eventually, it became impossible to manage both college and work. His sister Fathima recalls how he went up to his mother one day and told her that he will have to choose between the two. She said we could see about the studying later. Trilok writes that Rahman never intended to become a film music composer, but instead dreamed of creating his own albums, like musicians in the West.

A career in films, however, was waiting to take off, especially after the extraordinary success that Rahman had as a composer for jingles in Chennai. I felt I was a failure at what I really wanted in life. Later, when filmmaker K Balachander had a fall-out with Ilaiyaraaja. A nervous Rahman played a bunch of tunes for Ratnam the first time the director came to his studio.

The director thanked Rahman and left the studio.