You know Bollywood is in if a franchise like Lord of The Rings hires AR Rehman to score its Westend version.

AR Rahman, who also wrote the music for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit Bombay Dreams,has been commissioned to produce a raft of original songs, reports the BBC

bq. The £8m musical is due to open in the spring of 2005. Producer Kevin Wallace said: “We are recreating Middle Earth and we needed the music that goes with it to be unique. AR Rahman writes brilliant melodies with an exotic quality and we know he will write something which audiences will adore.”