Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman has been roped in to compose the music for the Bruce Lee biopic, which is being directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. “A.R. Rahman is also doing the music for Bruce Lee,” Kapur, who is in Mumbai briefly, said in an interview.

Kapur is pre-occupied with the shoot of ‘Little Dragon’, an authorised biopic of the martial arts legend and actor Bruce Lee. The story is a contemporary dramatisation of the 1950s Hong Kong social and political forces that shaped Bruce Lee into the most famous martial arts star and a significant modern day philosopher.

Kapur said he is excited about the music that Rahman will compose for the project. Meanwhile, the filmmaker’s young and talented daughter Kaveri too is ready to do a single with Rahman.

“Kaveri and I are going to go to Chennai. She is doing a song with A.R. Rahman,” Kapur said, adding that she will be recording a single and not any song for a film with the Mozart of Madras. A teenager, Kaveri is Kapur’s daughter with actress Suchitra Krishnamoorthi. She has already sung ‘Did you know’, ‘Half a heart’ and her latest track is called ‘Again’.

Bruce Lee Early Life:

Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, at the Chinese Hospital, in San Francisco’s Chinatown. According to the Chinese zodiac, Lee was born in both the hour and the year of the Dragon, which according to tradition is a strong and fortuitous omen.

Bruce’s father, Lee Hoi-chuen,  was Han Chinese, and his mother, Grace Ho , was of half-Chinese and half-Caucasian descent.Grace Ho was the adopted daughter of Ho Kom-tong (Ho Gumtong, ) and the half-niece of Sir Robert Ho-tung, both notable Hong Kong businessmen and philanthropists. There is no proof in any documents that Bruce Lee had a maternal German grandfather as popularly thought, rather his European ancestry came from an English maternal grandmother. His mother had an English mother and a Chinese father.Bruce was the fourth child of five children: Phoebe Lee , Agnes Lee , Peter Lee , and Robert Lee . Lee and his parents returned to Hong Kong when he was three months old.