Two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, one BAFTA Award, one Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards, thirteen Filmfare Awards South, one Padma Bhushan: When it comes to numbers, few can beat AR Rahman's track record.
Nicknamed ‘the Mozart of Madras', the Indian music mogul began his journey in the early 1990s with Tamil film Roja, and has since gifted the world with a seemingly endless list of magical tracks.
It's always easy to recognise a Rahman song. Whether the man's latest is slow and romantic or upbeat and trippy, he always manages to add a haunting, earthy element to each of his pieces of work, a quality that has become his signature, and keeps his fans coming back for more. For us at Vogue, the biggest Rahman moment was when he lent his talents to composing ‘Laadli', a song made especially for #VogueEmpower back in 2014. But what are the other songs from him that we're never going to stop playing on our iPods? Here's a list of our favourites.
