Great to see Maniratnam on that list as well! --- On Mon, 1/2/10, Sath Murthy <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Sath Murthy <[email protected]> Subject: [arr] ARR on his Grammy honor To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 1 February, 2010, 6:42 ARR thanks everyone including friends Gopal and Vijay.. Great to see.. keep up the good work :) http://sify. com/movies/ bollywood/ fullstory. php?id=14929594 A R Rahman scored a double triumph at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, scooping two early honours for his music from Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This is what he had to say about the honour: "Insane, eh? I never even dreamt about winning all these awards. I once again want to thank the Almighty, my spiritual Sufi teachers Ameen Peerullah Malik Sahib, Danny Boyle, Fox and the whole Slumdog creative team, all the awesome actors in the movie, MIA, Resul Pookutty, my whole team, Gulzaarji, Sukvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah and Vijay Prakaash. My friend and sound engineer the late H Sridhar, Deepak, P A Chetan, Vivvianne Chaix, Aditya Modi, Sivakumar, Noell James, Ganesh, Faiz, Anne-Marie, Ranjit Barot and the folks at Nirvana. My agents Sam Schwartz and Amos Newman. My friends Karan, Gopal and Vijay, Deepak Gattani, Mohan Chopra, Chris and Simon Long. My mentor Mani Rathnam, my mentors in Mumbai Shekhar Kapur and Subhash Ghai, and my mentor in the west, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Folks at IDPR, Allison and Courtney. My extraordinary musicians from Chennai and Mumbai. My mother, my father, my sisters and my lovely wife and children. And all my well wishers from the world who keep me going. Jai ho, India!
