London: Indian music director and composer A R Rahman is among the top 10 Asians who figure in this year's 'Sunday Times Pay List' of the United Kingdom, with an annual income of 2 million Pounds.

Famous for his scores in South Indian and Bollywood movies, the 36-year-old Rahman hit the international circuit after Andrew Lloyd Webber chose him for his latest musical 'Bombay Dreams', which has become a hit and money-spinner.

Rahman, who has scored for 60 films, is now paid 1 million Pounds per movie and has sold over 100 million albums. A graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, he qualifies for the Pay List because he has lived in London for most of the last two years, the newspaper said.

The top 10 Asians in the list are Gurchait Chima (9.5 million Pounds), business; Gurnaik Chima (9.5 million Pounds), business; Naguib Kheraj (5 mn Pounds), finance; Manish Chande (4.11 million Pounds) business; Raj Kumar (4 million Pounds) business; Rana Talwar (3.2 million Pounds), benefits; Tom Singh (2.87 million Pounds), business, Ranjit Boparan (2.76 million Pounds) business; Baljinder Boparan (2.5 million Pounds), business and A R Rahman (2 million Pounds), music.

PTI