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Article: Rahman on bowling over the Hollywood Bowl
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 2006
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Mumbai, Aug 20 -- A.R. Rahman's historic concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles last month has changed the equation between Bollywood and Hollywood.
Recalling the exhilarating experience, Rahman says: "They had been trying to contact us for the past year. Finally I let them on to my events manager.
"When I was earlier honoured at the Hollywood Bowl in 2000, they told me it was going to be a non-Indian audience. But a lot of Asians came, which was fantastic. But that process of reaching out to a global audience happened this time at the Hollywood Bowl."
The concert held on July 16 was attended by 18,000 people. Says Rahman, "Eighty percent of the audience was non-Indian. More than an ...