Back in 2018, The Stranger's Charles Mudede wrote of Indian composer A.R. Rahman: "Born in 1967 in Madras (now Chennai), India, Rahman has a career in Bollywood that spans nearly 30 years. He has won numerous awards, including two Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire (and was nominated for the song “O… Saya,” which features rapper/singer M.I.A.). He has recorded with the legendary Lata Mangeshkar, a singer I discovered after the soundtrack for Lagaan sent me into the Bollywood rabbit hole (I watched Satyam Shivam Sundaram; I saw the most gorgeous woman to ever appear on film, Zeenat Aman; I heard the heavenly voice of Mangeshkar). Some have called Rahman “the Mozart of Madras.” I consider him to be the Mozart of Now."