Rahman to score music for ‘Baab’ helmed by UAE’s first woman filmmaker

Los Angeles, May 25 : The UAEs first woman filmmaker, Nayla Al Khaja, and music maestro A.R.

Rahman are looking forward to their upcoming collaboration on Baab, reports Variety.Written by Al Khaja and Masoud Amralla Al Ali, the film follows Wahida, who is unable to make sense of her twin sisters mysterious death and is plagued by a haunting rhythm in her ears.

Rahman and Khaja were present at the Cannes Film Market to promote Baab.The composers directorial debut, the virtual reality film Le Musk, also had its world premiere at the markets Cannes XR programme.

Talking about Baab with Variety, Al Khaja said: "Its about the four stages of grief, but we dont say it so black and white.She [Wahida] creates a fantasy world to justify her sisters death, because shes young.Theyre identical.They spent their entire life together.

So how do you move on after that point?" Shooting for the film will begin in March 2023.Al Khaja said to Variety that she believes in serendipity as Rahman was in Dubai to set up the Firdaus Studio as part of Expo 2020 Dubai and mentor the Firdaus Orchestra, an all-woman ensemble of 50 musicians from 23 Arab countries.

Rahman also composed the music for Shekhar Kapurs Why? The Musical, which was part of the Expo.Rahman started researching Arabic music when he was composing the music for Majid Majidis 2015 film Muhammad: The Messenger of God.For Baab he is planning to use the Arab melodic system called maqam.

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