Re: What are you listening to right now?
AR Rehman composed music in Tamil first. This was year 2004. Director Mani Ratnam. A genius.
Mani Ratnam and Rahman have several movies in Tamil together starting early 90s. Roja and Bombay are the two most famous. With fantastic songs. They were also released in Hindi and possibly in Telugu.
Bollywood copies from everywhere including within India. There is one classic Malayalam movie which was copied in a Hindi without assigning credit . If I remember I will provide Hindi movie name
AR Rahman also composed Di se movie songs. And is quite popular after the slum dog millionaire songs he composed. Which were not even his best.