A R Rahman has said that he will compose ‘Jai Ho’ in Tamil after he completes his world tour, mostly by early next year. The Academy Award winner A R Rahman said this while he was speaking at the felicitation organized by the Delhi Tamil Sangam for Padma awardees from Tamil Nadu in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The Mozart of Madras said he got the idea composing the new anthem ‘Jai Ho’ in Tamil when he heard children sing the song in Hindi during the function.
Apart from Rahman, Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Apollo Hospitals Chairman Dr Prathap C Reddy, former CBI director D R Karthikeyan and Siddha expert J R Krishnamurthy were also felicitated.