A.R.Rahman is one of the finest music directors in Indian film industry. His original name was Dileep Kumar and he changed his name to A.R.Rahman after converting to Islam. He is from southern indian state of TamilNadu.

Indian films
He composes music for mainly for Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam movies. He is primarily known for his fusion style music - mixing different world genres - but catering to the indian music fans.

Western:
He also composed for Andrew Weber's Broadway musical "Bollywood dreams". The hollywood movie "Inside Man" opens with a song "Chaiya Chaiya" - which was originally composed by A.R.Rahman for the Hindi movie "Dil Se" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.