AR Rahman announces the release date of his movie, 99 Songs

Academy award-winning music maestro

AR Rahman

has been in the industry as a musician par excellence for nearly 28 years. Recently the talented musician has taken an interest to go behind the camera and in 2017, he wrote, directed and produced a virtual movie Le Musk.

The latest is that AR has written and produced another movie ’

99 Songs

, a love story. The film is directed by Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, who co-wrote the story with Rahman. Ehan Bhat and Edilsy Vargas are the lead pair in the movie, which is said to be a sensual story about art and self-discovery of a struggling singer who wants to be a successful music composer. The film will be multilingual, which will be getting released in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.

On the movie, AR Rahman posted on social media, "I am very excited to announce the release of my very first film as producer and writer,'99 Songs', a young, passionate love story, with music at its soul. 99 Songs will be released in cinemas in three languages Hindi, Tamil and Telugu on June 21, 2019. I thank you all for the love, support and encouragement you have showered on me,"