Anuradha Paudwal Backs AR Rahman Amid Backlash, Says ‘Nobody Can Influence His Career’

Vulnerable singer Anuradha Paudwal has weighed in on the recent controversy surrounding music composer AR Rahman’s alleged “communal” assert, calling the latter a “saintly person.”

Talking to ANI, Anuradha Paudwal backed the Oscar-winning composer. She shared, “From what I do know of AR Rahman is by his music. I even enjoy never met him in my opinion, nonetheless his music tells that he is a extraordinarily saintly person.”

In response to media experiences about Rahman’s communal feedback, Paudwal highlighted how media questions are tweaked in a capacity to evoke fascinating solutions.

“I have been in the industry, and I have seen that when any artist, not only AR Rahman, but when any artist sits for an interview, the interviewer usually likes to frame questions in such a way to incite their desired response. The media, the channels, they don’t like straight interviews. Because they want something else,” she talked about.

The ‘Nazar Ke Samne’ singer maintained that Rahman has delivered endless tracks to the music enterprise. 

“AR Rahman has given us the greatest of numbers, and he is beyond all this. He has achieved so much. He is not at that stage where anybody can influence his career. That’s what I feel as a senior artist, he has done wonders with his songs. There is no meaning in it,” she added. 

Paudwal’s reaction came in the wake of the controversy that erupted after Rahman, in an interview with BBC Asian Network, talked about that work from the Hindi film enterprise had slowed down for him as of late and linked this to changes in the enterprise over the previous eight years. 

After that interview, reactions came from both fans and mighty personalities, along side the likes of Kangana Ranaut, Paresh Rawal, Ranvir Shorey, Subhash Ghai, and Shobhaa De, amongst others.