AR Rahman calls Amar Singh Chamkila 'a very naughty picture', says he loves working with Imtiaz Ali

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AR Rahman has spoken about director Imtiaz Ali and his upcoming film, Amar Singh Chamkila, for which the musician has composed music..

Speaking with News18, AR Rahman called Amar Singh Chamkila "a very naughty picture"..

We can do this part, we can make it like a musical where everybody sings about Chamkila blaming him for the good or the bad..

The film presents the untold true story of Punjab's original rockstar of the masses, Amar Singh Chamkila, who emerged from the shadows of poverty and rose to the heights of popularity in the '80s due to the sheer power of his music, angering many along the way, which finally led to his assassination at the young age of 27..

I've shown just his life but that becomes symbolic to the lives of many other artists in Punjab and everywhere in the world, who have had the double stress of being popular and under attack at the same time," Imtiaz Ali told PTI. ..

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