Oscar winner AR Rahman turns director with Virtual reality film ‘Le Musk’

NEW DELHI: After enthralling music lovers with his melodious tunes for years, music maestro has now donned the directorial hat, making his debut in direction with the world’s first Virtual Reality (VR) multisensory episodic feature film ‘Le Musk’ themed on perfumes.

Rahman who launched the prelude of his directional debut, being produced by him in partnership with PVR cinema , said, “I just feel that you can do anything. You just have to delve into it; you just have to lean into it. It’s not that anything belongs to anyone. Anyone can become anything.”

On making his directorial debut, the 50-year-old music composer said, ”You can see directors becoming composers and composers becoming directors. It’s just how sincere I am. I should not cheat. I should be honest to my job. I should excel in it. It goes for everyone.”

The India prelude of ‘Le Musk’ comes after it being showcased at the ‘NAB’, Las Vegas, as part of the Intel-Keynote, on April 24.  The experience of scent, motion, spacial sound and visuals has been amalgamated in ‘Le Musk’ to give the viewer a stereosmokic effect on the Voyager chair, specially designed by Postiron. (AGENCIES)