Mumbai (PTI): The success of multiple-Oscar winner 'Slumdog Millionaire' notwithstanding, film-maker Subhash Ghai feels that the emergence of music-director A R Rahman as an international artist was the only positive that India could claim from the film."'Slumdog Millionaire' was a film made by a westerner, who had a plot and hired a few local actors for it. We cannot claim it to be an Indian film," Ghai said during an interaction with PTI. "The only thing that we should rejoice is the success of Rahman. He won laurels for his music from the international community despite composing it in a language which was unknown to them," said the Showman, who is known for making films like 'Hero' 'Khalnayak', 'Ram Lakhan', 'Taal' and 'Pardes'. However, Ghai feels that Rahman's Oscar-winning composition 'Jai Ho' is not his best work. "Rahman himself acknowledges he has given better music than 'Slumdog Millionaire'. Many have told me that his music for my film 'Yuvraaj' was much better than 'Slumdog...'," Ghai said.Rahman's Oscar-winning song 'Jai Ho' was originally composed for Ghai's musical 'Yuvraaj' that hit the silver screen last year. But it wasn't considered good enough to be featured on Zayed Khan and was replaced by the peppy number 'Shanno Shanno'. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/009200905311121.htm
