*After 'Awara Hoon', Russia says 'Jai Ho'* Moscow (PTI): After Bollywood song 'Awara Hoon' become popular in then Soviet Union decades ago, music maestro A R Rahman's magic creation 'Jai Ho' is now resonating in Russian homes.
Russia's state-run Channel 1 TV on Friday night aired the multiple Oscar winner movie 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Although the movie was not the product of Bollywood, but millions of TV watchers across the country, welcomed it as a purely Indian movie. Russia's popular "Domashny" (Home) TV channel on its initiative to mark the 'Year of India in Russia' screened Raj Kapur's 'Awaara', the first movie ever screened in Communist Russia from a non-Communist country. Over the decades the popular hit from the movie "Awaara hoon" became the hymn to the Indo-Russian friendship, with Soviet-era grown leaders like ex-President Boris Yeltsin and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov humming at various meetings with the visiting Indian leaders. Even 'Awaara hoon' ring tone is popular among today's Russian youth and after the screening of Slumdog Millionaire', A R Rehman's 'Jai Ho' is set to become a popular ring tone for mobile users here. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200904041939.htm -- regards, Vithur
