A R Rahman wins two, Slumdog gets 8 Oscars
23 Feb 2009, 1436 hrs IST, AGENCIES
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LOS ANGELES: Slumdog Millionaire took the best-picture Academy
Award<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/A-R-Rahman-wins-two-Slumdog-gets-8-Oscars/articleshow/4174914.cms#>and
seven other Oscars, including director for Danny Boyle, whose
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ghetto-to-glory story paralleled the film's unlikely rise to Hollywood's
summit.
A story of hope amid squalor in Mumbai, Slumdog Millionaire came in with 10
nominations, its eight wins including adapted screenplay, cinematography,
editing and both
music<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/A-R-Rahman-wins-two-Slumdog-gets-8-Oscars/articleshow/4174914.cms#>Oscars
(score and song).
“Just to say to Mumbai, all of you who helped us make the film and all of
those of you who didn’t thank you very much. You dwarf even this guy,''
Boyle said, holding up his directing Oscar.
The
filmmakers<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/A-R-Rahman-wins-two-Slumdog-gets-8-Oscars/articleshow/4174914.cms#>accepted
the best-picture trophy surrounded by both the adult professional
actors who appeared among the cast of relative unknowns and some of the
children the British director cast from the slums of Mumbai.
Boyle's hit film not only won the Oscars for best picture and best director
at Sunday night's annual Academy Awards ceremony at Kodak
Theatre<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/A-R-Rahman-wins-two-Slumdog-gets-8-Oscars/articleshow/4174914.cms#>in
Los Angeles, but also for six others including two for A R Rahman.
Rahman, the third Indian to win the coveted golden statuette, picked up the
awards for his best original score as also the best original song "Jai ho"
from the film with lyrics by
Gulzar<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/A-R-Rahman-wins-two-Slumdog-gets-8-Oscars/articleshow/4174914.cms#>and
Sukhwinder Singh as the lead singer.
"God is great!" Rahman exclaimed in Tamil as he picked up the awards, saying
he was as excited and terrified before coming here as he was at his
marriage.
Competing with "Jai ho" for the second Oscar was another song composed by
Rahman, "O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire", with its lyrics too written by
him with Maya Arulpragasam (MIA). He also sang the song with Maya, the
British singer of Sri Lankan origin.
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