*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.

After becoming the first Indian to win the Golden Globe and getting a triple
Oscar nomination in two categories for the same movie, Rahman, 43, is the
first Indian musician to win the BAFTA Award.

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.


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