Source - http://blog.nasscom.in/emerge/2009/02/27/%E2%80%98jai-ho%E2%80%99-is-no-longer-an-indian-desire/
"Last night, I was meeting the chief technology officer of a company in Chicago over dinner in an Italian restaurant. An elderly waiter came to our table, smothered the signature roasted garlic with olive oil and before announcing the specials of the evening with the usual pomposity of restaurants that serve good food, looked at me and asked if I have seen the movie? Not yet, I replied. He proudly said he had and that he did so three weeks before it walked away with 8 Oscars. "And yes, I saw the Oscar ceremony as well and you know what made me feel good?" - He asked me with his heavy Italian accent. Without waiting for my reply, he intoned, "The movie is about people of an Indian city, but the characters - so many of them - are Moslems and the Music Director - Rah-Man - is a Moslem!. The future belongs to India" After the dinner, on my drive back to my hotel, I was seeing a replay of the Oscar ceremony in my mind. The effortlessness with which Rahman was walking in and out of the stage, when he was crooning, making his acceptance speech in English laced with unrehearsed Hindi and Tamil, it all looked as if the 8 Oscars were no stretch - they were just a logical, expected act of flow. "Jai Ho" is no longer an Indian desire; it is part of a universal stimulus package!"
