Look the movie 'Frida'.... it own oscar for best music in 2002.... May be u can find the root of the 'spanish' tune somewhere in that movie.... check it out....
Arijit 2009/8/13 V S Rawat <[email protected]> > > > On 8/13/2009 6:57 PM India Time, _Madhavan Rajan_ wrote: > > > Any idea why the academy left out Tanvi Shah who wrote the Spanish > > lyrics in Jai Ho?! > > I was so deeply listening to this song and this thing suddenly struck me. > > I was also thinking about this since the D-day (when the song was > nominated). > > Any my conclusion is: > > As most of the oscar voters and judges and vote-compilers were not > knowing hindi, so they couldn't understand what the lyrics are saying, > and the award for lyrics went to gulzar saab just as a technicality > because best song award goes to MD/ lyricists both. > > Now the cake of the reasoning :- > And as most of them might not be understanding Spanish either, they > might have thought for the spanish part that it is some regional dialect > of Hindi, so they didn't think to mention the Spanish lyricist. > > He he he. > > -- > Rawat > > >

