More recently, he worked with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Shekhar Kapur (director of Elizabeth (1998)) on a musical called 'Bombay Dreams.' At 36 years old, A.R. (1998), Taal (1999), Zubeidaa (2001), and Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001), which was nominated for best foreign-language film at the 2002 Academy Awards. The enormous success of his first Hindi venture was followed by the chart-topping soundtrack albums of films such as Bumbai (1995), Dil Se. He went on to compose several great hits for Tamil-language films before composing the score and songs for his first Hindi-language film, Rangeela (1995). In 1989, he started a small studio called Panchathan Record Inn, which later developed into one of the most well-equipped and advanced sound recording studios in India. In 1987, he moved to advertising, where he composed more than 300 jingles over 5 years. Due to some personal crisis, Dileep Kumar embraced Islam and came to be known as A.R. He won a scholarship at the Trinity College of Music at Oxford University, where he studied Western classical music and obtained a degree in music. He dropped out of school as a result of this and traveled all around the world with various orchestras. Since the pressure of supporting his family fell on him, he joined Ilayaraja's troupe as a keyboard player at the age of 11.

Dileep started learning the piano at the age of 4, and at the age of 9, his father passed away. Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1966, in Madras (now Chennai), India, to a musically affluent family.

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