Originally Posted by MADDY
wanted to share this info here for a long time, somehow kept forgetting it....i read a book on ARRahman by Kamini Mathai*, in which she mentions about the background scenes that occured for music director choice in Sivaji........Shankar fresh from Anniyan success was not keen on going back to Rahman, with whom he developed hassles during Boys......AVM too left it on shankar to decide the MD......Shankar wanted to rope in HJ again but Rajinikanth intervened and asked Shankar/AVM not to settle for anyone but Rahman :bow: ......this way the shankar-rahman frndship recovered through sivaji largely due to Rajinikanth....IR fan-naale ARR-a prefer panna maattanga-ngra thinging-aye destroy pannittaru rajini......:thumbsup:
*all these to be believed if Kamini Mathai had collected accurate data