It is going to be a separate trophies museum in AR' studio. ;) There are still couple of Indian Film Awards being held outside India. GIFA. global indian film awards & Bollywood music awards. No announcements on these & expecting same. rgds
--- On Mon, 6/9/08, Madhavan Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Madhavan Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [arr] Re: AR Rahman named best music director To: [email protected] Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 9:46 AM Thanks Gopal for the additional info...This is really a big treat... Madhavan.R Love, Music, Peace...and AR Rahman for Life. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Gopal Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: It's actually a triple treat - Best Composer, Best Background Score and the Outstanding Achievement award. In fact, this is the second year in succession that IIFA has conferred 3 awards on ARR - Best Background Score - Rang De Basanti (Hindi, 2007) Best Song Recording - Rang De Basanti (Hindi, 2007) [Shared with KJ Singh and H Sridhar] Best Composer - Rang De Basanti (Hindi, 2007) Best Background Score - Guru (Hindi, 2008) Best Composer - Guru (Hindi, 2008) Outstanding Achievement by an Indian in International Cinema - 2008 However, the merit of the Best Song Recording Award remains in question since ARR was not officially credited for any song recording for RDB ----- Original Message ---- From: Madhavan Rajan <rsamadhu2002@ gmail.com> To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2008 10:22:58 PM Subject: [arr] Re: AR Rahman named best music director Earlier IIFA honored AR Rahman as "Outstanding Indian Contributing to International Cinema"...Now, it's a double treat with the Best Music Director award for Guru as well...Also good to see a couple of awards for Guru apart from this... Cheers, Madhavan.R Love, Music, Peace...and AR Rahman for Life. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Madhavan Rajan <rsamadhu2002@ gmail.com> wrote: Rahman named best music director at IIFA Sunday, June 08, 2008 21:29 [IST] Bangkok: A.R. Rahman was named the best music director for his score in "Guru" at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) 2008 awards here Sunday night, while the Shah Rukh Khan starrer "Om Shanti Om" swept a number of technical awards. Shreya Ghoshal won the honours for the best playback singer (female) for "Barso re" from ManiRatnam's "Guru", which film also bagged awards for the best background score (Rahman) and best song recording (H. Sridhar). The best playback singer (male) award was bagged by Shaan for "Jab se tere naina" from "Saawariya". Veteran Javed Akhtar was named the best lyricist for "Om Shanti Om", which also garnered awards for best special effects (Red Chillies Entertainment) , best art direction (Sabu Cyril), best costume design (Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar and Sanjeev Mulchandani) and best makeup. The award for best screenplay was won jointly by Anurag Basu ("Life in a Metro") and Jaideep Sahni ("Chak De! India"). "Chak De! India" also took home the trophy for best cinematography. Imtiyaz Ali was named the best dialogue writer for "Jab We Met". http://movies. indiainfo. com/2008/ 06/08/0806082130 _rahman.html Cheers, Madhavan.R Love, Music, Peace...and AR Rahman for Life.
