Mr. Aznaur: Is Tahar Rahim really singing in the movie?

Mr. Aznaur: Is Tahar Rahim really singing in the movie?

Mr. Aznavour, co-directed by Grand Corps’ Malad and Mehdi Idir, is the biopic of the late October event. Lauded by the audience, the film is particularly attractive with the performance of its lead actor, Tahar Rahim.

Tahar Rahi has completely transformed herself for this role. The actor identified by Jacques Audiard in Un Prophète 15 years ago is unidentified.

He has been playing a famous singer and lyricist for years. Mr. Aznauri tells us about the artist’s path to fame. It traces the singer’s rise from the 1950s.

A question we must ask ourselves: Is Tahar Rahim himself singing Charles Aznour’s songs in the film? We asked him a question.

At first I wanted to sing, for the audience, because of the truth. Knowing it was a vocal dub, I felt safe. I told myself: in order to be able to make the thing as real as possible and send a real emotion to the audience, I really had to sing. So I learned to sing to be in rhythm, to be in the right notes, to not be lip service, to have the physicality actually and realistically engaged.

6 months of singing, 6 to 8 hours a week before filming

And along the way, my singing coach said, “I think you can do it.” We must try. Then I talk about it to the Grand Corps Malade (Fabien) and Mehdi Idir and then they say, “Yes, let’s try.” And we do the first song that I sing. If I’m not mistaken, this is: “You Never Know”, his first TV appearance. And it’s going pretty well. So we really wanted to go in that direction. What got me there was six months of singing, six to eight hours a week before filming, and then I continued filming in the evenings, forgetting about the piano. Very, very difficult piano.

And then we continued in this direction, it was going quite well. And then, we feel safe when we work with another big name in a song, which is Grand Corps Malade, we tell ourselves that when he tells us: it’s good, it’s good. Or if it’s not good, it’s not good!

With hard work, we will inevitably improve a little. That’s right, when you train for a sport, like a boxing match, you’re bound to improve. So we had to re-record everything. A lot of what we did earlier, at the end of the shoot.

And then, with someone like Fabien, they treated it like an album of songs. It was mixed. There are high notes for which he was very different from Charles, so they did a mix between me and him. I’m excited, very happy to be able to sing everything.”

As Tahar Rahim explains, there was therefore a double recording to account for the actor’s progress in the song.

For me, the limit was disturbing the audience

If Tahar Rahi did indeed sing for the film, he specifies that the film also includes additional songs by Charles Aznour that he does not sing himself.

For me, the limit was disturbing the audience. If the film about Charles Aznour is interrupted at some point in Charles’s work, then if that’s the case, we’ll cancel everything and get a vocal double. And then they did their thing. And then I think it went well.

The son of a refugee, small, poor, with a poor voice, it was said that he had nothing to do. With hard work, perseverance and extraordinary willpower, Charles Aznavour became a monument of song and a symbol of French culture. With nearly 1,200 titles performed worldwide and in every language, he has inspired entire generations. Discover Mr. Aznauri’s extraordinary and timely journey.

Mr. Aznauri is currently in the cinema.

Source: Allocine

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