A.R RAHMAN WINS OSCAR
London: Adding yet another feather in his cap, music maestro Allah Rakha Rahman on Sunday bagged the BAFTA Award in the best music score category for Slumdog Millionaire at a gala event in London.
Apart from Rahman, Resul Pookutty was the other Indian to win a BAFTA Award for Best Sound editing for Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman's composition Jai Ho for British director Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, earned him the Critics Choice Award for Best Composer in 2008 and the Golden Globe in the category of Best Original Score.
Rahman, born in Chennai on January 6, 1966, has been nominated in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories for two of his compositions -- Jai Ho and O Saya at the Oscar.
It was a dream run at the Oscars for India.
Filmmaker Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches romance set in India, Slumdog Millionaire, won eight Oscar awards for best feature film, direction, original song, original score, sound mixing, editing, adapted screenplay and cinematography.
An elated Rahman who won the Academy Awards for best original score and song from the filmSlumdog Millionaire said, “I want to thank everyone. The essence of the film is optimism and hope. All through my life I had the choice of love and hate…I chose love and I am here".
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