Music director A.R. Rahman, who recently became the first Indian to win the Oscar award(s), is a regular visitor to the Hasrat Dastageer Sahib Mosque situated on Dr. Radhakrishnan Road in Mylapore, Chennai. The music maestro, whenever he happens to be in Chennai, never misses to visit the 234-year old Mosque every Friday.
Rehman has been a regular visitor to this Mosque for the past twenty years. A Moulvi by name Syed Shah Karimulla Husseini Khatri at the Mosque holds the credit for changing A.R. Rehman's name from his earlier name A S Dilip Kumar. Though Khatri is no more now, Rehman regularly pays floral tributes to the dead Moulvi at the latter's crematorium inside the Mosque.
Meanwhile, an astrologer by name 'Om Ulaganathan', who is the president of the world association of astrologers, has displayed a huge hoarding at his Office on the 100-feet road in Vadapalani claiming that he was the one who changed Rahman's name from Dilip Kumar. Probably, the astrologer could be trying to cash in on the added status of the music wizard as the Oscar award winner now.
(chennaionline)
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