New Delhi: Oscar-winning Indian composer A R Rahman has joined hands with Brazilian singer-songwriter Anna Beatriz for the movie “Pele”.
An excited Rahman tweeted, “Working with the very Brazilian and very talented lyricist and singer Anna Beatriz, for the movie Peléâ€. Knowing Rahman’s skill as a musician, it will be interesting to see how he manages to infuse Beatriz’s Brazilian beats with his own desi tadka.
The film Pele is based on the life of legendary Brazilian footballer Pele and has been directed and written by Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist.
The film stars Kevin de Paula, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta and Colm Meaney and was slated to release around the FIFA world cup this year but has now been postponed to the first quarter of 2015.
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who is better known as Pelé is a retired Brazilian footballer who is widely regarded to be the best football player of all time. In 1999, he was voted World Player of the Century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.