Notes of a Dream is a detailed account of A.R. Rahman's story, one of India's most famous movie composers who rose to international fame through the film Slumdog Millionaire.

When Slumdog Millionaire burst onto the American film festival circuit in 2008, it introduced millions in the West to Indian pop music.

When A.R. Rahman won an Academy Award for Slumdog Millionaire's score, the West was introduced to a man whose work Indian audiences had adored for decades.

By the time he won an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, Rahman had composed music for hundreds of shows, performed with Michael Jackson and Coldplay, and created a musical with Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Despite his long list of accomplishments in the entertainment industry, not even Indian people knew much about Rahman by the time Slumdog Millionaire was released.

In Notes of A Dream, family friend and author Krishna Trilok explores Rahman's traumatic childhood. The 2018 book also charts his unlikely rise in the Indian movie business, as well as his deep body of philanthropic work.