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Race is an Indian neo-noiraction crime film series produced by Ramesh S. Taurani and Kumar S. Taurani under the banner of Tips Industries. The series was written by Kiran Kotrial, Shiraz Ahmed, Anurag Prapanna and Jitendra Parmar, which stars Saif Ali Khan as the main lead and Anil Kapoor as a recurring character for first 2 films, Race and Race 2 are directed by Abbas–Mustan. The third film, Race 3 was a sequel directed by Remo D'Souza. Kapoor returned once again, this time in a new role with Salman Khan and Bobby Deol joining the cast. Race 3 (third film) received negative reviews and didn't perform well as previous films at the box office. The first film is loosely based on the

KumarTaurani's Tips Industries, one of the largest music companies has acquired the official music rights of Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan: I and PS II which is going to release in April 2023. Besides this he also acquired music for the Telugu film Shakuntalam directed by Gunasekhar and Hari Har Veera Mallu. In an interview with Filmfare he talks about his new ventures and more. Excerpts 

What prompted you to acquire music rights for the Tamil film Ponniyin Selvan I?

We have been in the music business since 1981. Then from year 88 we started producing films as well. In between we have also done South and Punjabi films. Our music business was in a bit of trouble due to MP3 and radio, but now the business has picked up in the last few years. We started again and created our own YouTube channel. We started working in multiple languages.  When we thought of the Tamil industry,  we decided that we would enter there with a big film. That's why we chose Tamil films like PS I and PS II. That was the reason behind acquiring music rights of the Telugu film Shakuntalam as well. PS I has great music by AR Rahman, director Mani Ratnam is also a legend and has such an amazing star cast. Jab sab kuch grand hai, to apko sochne ki zaroorat hi kya hai!.  So we contacted the producers and showed interest in buying the music for the film. Ham decide karke gaye the ki is ek meeting mein hi deal done karni hai aur hammne kar diya.

The South Film Industry is doing better business than Bollywood these days. Was this why you thought of associating with South films?

We acquired the rights of the film in this year of March-April, till then there was no such scene. Yeh sab hamare liye mayne nahi rakhta hai. We have seen a phase where 30-35 films have been a super hit in a row and sometimes films flopped due to working with big filmmakers. Ups and downs are part of life.

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