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AR Rahman’s daughter Khatija Rahman speaks her mind on being a niqabi singer
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2/15/2025
The singer, who just released her new Hindi single, talks about being a nonconformist
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your last name carries a lot of weight do you think in some ways you you can you owe you know
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the kind of start that you get to your very famous father definitely owe it to him but after that
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it's going to be my hard work this is Manjusha Radhakrishnan from Gulf News I'm here in conversation
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with Katija Rahman she is the daughter of A.R. Rahman and on Sunday she's going to release her
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single and it's called Farishtur perhaps she can tell us more about it. Katija thank you so much
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for speaking to us perhaps you can tell us about your new single that's going to release this
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Sunday. Thank you so much Manjusha. The audio Hindi releases on 25th on major streaming platforms
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and the animated video releases much later the song also comes in Tamil basically we went for
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animation because we felt we wanted to try something different and lockdown we had a lot
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of time with us as in to discuss ideas and all of us were together otherwise it's like each in
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one corner we watched a lot of Miyazaki's movies during the lockdown so it was really interesting
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and I love animation especially these Disney films animation is something which is relatable
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and likable for children and adults because we all want to live in a fantasy this is about women's
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empowerment something I strongly believe in I really enjoyed working in this it's just like a
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reflection of you know what I kind of believe in it's a lot about my life how I have accepted
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people from different walks of life. I love the theme actually of women empowerment I think it's
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a very relevant theme I don't think it ever gets dated the more you talk about it the more it
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triggers dialogue was that one of the reasons why was it your personal experience of perhaps
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a repression that you felt perhaps in society or by people making a comments on the way you
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should live or how you should be emboldened, empowered so what made you choose this powerful
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theme? Honestly we didn't plan it that way it just shaped we were focusing on more of the magic
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elements and things but then as we shape it just happened I would say but and thankfully it's all
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the things which I believe in which has happened. Do you believe that as well COVID in a weird way
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is a great fertile ground for creative artists such as you? It gives you more time to spend with
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your craft there's no concerts so there was a lot of reflections and learnings.
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Farishto means angel of course who has been the angel in your for everyone there must be some
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power or angelic presence in your life who would you credit that to? Actually a lot of people I
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it will be I'll be lying if I just say just one person so right from my teachers my school,
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college teachers or my music teachers and my family, my parents and a lot of women who have
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supported me it doesn't just stop with it I think it's a forever for life you know we meet a lot of
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lovely angels. Your last name carries a lot of weight do you think in some ways you can you owe
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you know the kind of start that you get to your very famous father? Definitely owe it to him but
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after that it's going to be my hard work meaning just with the name nothing can be done it might
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you know give some placement or make it easy or whatever but after that it's only the work which
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will speak is what I believe. We live in a world where all these music videos that my daughter
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watches for instance be it western or eastern they're quite you know graphic and sexualized
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you know even the pop stars etc how can you can your voice be heard or how difficult do you think
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of that as a challenge to reach the younger generation through you know people use a lot
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employ a lot of things in a video to titillate them we don't have you don't use that as a
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clutch with your music that should speak right and animation to a large extent so do you think
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that's a challenge? I don't see it as a challenge I think the most important and sometimes tough
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thing is keeping your identity and not wanting to fit in it's not that I have I have changed my
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identity to be accepted whether on social media or anything and and I don't see anything changing a
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lot of them I still get the love and support so thankfully it's not challenging and I think if
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the message is true it will definitely reach yeah I mean you're right a lot of those elements are
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added you know for people to watch from prompters but that's not the kind of way I would want to
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communicate or grab someone's attention everything has its own pros and cons I would say
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what's your identity that you are seeking to build because you're very new so you you have the power
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to you know shape your own identity so what kind of identity as a musician and a pop cultural
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personality do you want to project? I want my art to speak for the causes I believe and
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thankfully all the kind of projects I've been getting has been that way I have not chosen in
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that way but maybe the universe hasn't heard it and that's what has been happening so and I want
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to heal people I don't want it to be just a song generally like okay it's a song I've sung but it
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should touch people I hope I'm of some solace to someone who's in pain. You did have a very
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conventional debut singing debut with Indiran, the robot song I remember hearing it and then
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there was a sabbatical a self-imposed sabbatical and then you came back is there a reason why
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you're reinventing yourself now and you decided not to go the commercial movie which talks to a
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lot of people the movie is releasing does it sound easier to get attention? No so I have sung for a
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commercial project but I'm not sure if it will release or not and I did not choose or select it
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but somehow as I say I have not planned anything except to learn singing but whatever is happening
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is just it's just happening I did not choose that I did not say that I'll not sing for movies or
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reject any offers as long as the song is meaningful and not indecent or you know abuses women those
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kind of things I don't I wouldn't do whatever is happening I'm just going with the flow.
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