Thursday, February 26, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
AR Rahman at the 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009 at Kodak Theatre
AR Rahman was a blend of humility and pride while walking down the red carpet with wife Sairaa, and later receiving two Oscars, at the 81st Annual Academy Awards 2009 at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, Sunday, February 22.
Rahman won Oscars for Original Score and Original Song for Slumdog Millionaire, the runaway success story of the evening which swept the awards night with 8 wins from 10 nominations.
Rahman also performed O Saya and Jai Ho during the evening watched by millions across the globe.
AFTER THE AWARD WINNING...
"Ella pughalum iraivanuke (All glory and fame is to God)" was how music maestro A R Rahman reacted to his double-Oscar feat. Besides God, the 'Mozart of Madras' also dedicated his Oscars to his "loving" mother Kareema Begum, who was seated among the audience at the Kodak Theatre.
Rahman has always dedicated his awards to them. "I always had a choice between love and hate in my life. And I chose love and I am here," a beaming Rahman said at the Awards Ceremony.
Having shouldered the responsibilities of his family at the tender age of 9, Rahman never had an opportunity to get proper education in his life. Begum had in an interview to a Tamil weekly had said she will feel bad forever for not giving her son an opportunity to enjoy his childhood days.
Rahman won Oscars for Original Score and Original Song for Slumdog Millionaire, the runaway success story of the evening which swept the awards night with 8 wins from 10 nominations.
Rahman also performed O Saya and Jai Ho during the evening watched by millions across the globe.
AFTER THE AWARD WINNING...
"Ella pughalum iraivanuke (All glory and fame is to God)" was how music maestro A R Rahman reacted to his double-Oscar feat. Besides God, the 'Mozart of Madras' also dedicated his Oscars to his "loving" mother Kareema Begum, who was seated among the audience at the Kodak Theatre.
Rahman has always dedicated his awards to them. "I always had a choice between love and hate in my life. And I chose love and I am here," a beaming Rahman said at the Awards Ceremony.
Having shouldered the responsibilities of his family at the tender age of 9, Rahman never had an opportunity to get proper education in his life. Begum had in an interview to a Tamil weekly had said she will feel bad forever for not giving her son an opportunity to enjoy his childhood days.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
ARR wins hearts in arena of world music
The only Indians to have held the Oscar stauette, which according to Hollywood fable was named by Bette Davis after her first husband because the backside rsemebled Harman Oscar Nelson’s posterior, are Satyajit Ray (lifetime achievement) and Ms Bhanu Athaiya (costume design for Gandhi, shared with John Mallo). If memory can be trusted, the country’s finest film maker Ray was given the award in 1992 in his hospital bed even as he was fighting for his life.
Ms Bhanu could not have won the Oscar in1982 for dressing up Gandhi because he barely wore anything but then some of the others, like Nehru, the Mountbattens and Jan Smuts were immaculately dressed in the period epic.So many other Indians have come close without quite being able to clutch the 33.75 cm, 3.8 kg statue made of the alloy Brittanium and plated in pure gold and which has gone to 2,701 people so far. Aamir Khan was a hopeful when he went to Beverly Hills in search of support for his cricket-based starrer Lagaan. Deepa Mehta’s Water, with many Indian stars in the moving film on the widows of Varanasi, was officially a Canadian entry but did not make it on the big night at Kodak theatre.
In the hunt for the Oscars pertaining to movies made and released in 2008 is also ‘Guitar’ Prasanna, the composer of the background music score for the documentary Smile Pinki, made by Magan Mylan.
Rahman is the first Indian to get three Oscar nominations, including one for best original score and for two songs in the film — Jai ho and O saya.
The odds are he will swing it, hopefully for the bigger one too, which is the best original score category.
Ms Bhanu could not have won the Oscar in1982 for dressing up Gandhi because he barely wore anything but then some of the others, like Nehru, the Mountbattens and Jan Smuts were immaculately dressed in the period epic.So many other Indians have come close without quite being able to clutch the 33.75 cm, 3.8 kg statue made of the alloy Brittanium and plated in pure gold and which has gone to 2,701 people so far. Aamir Khan was a hopeful when he went to Beverly Hills in search of support for his cricket-based starrer Lagaan. Deepa Mehta’s Water, with many Indian stars in the moving film on the widows of Varanasi, was officially a Canadian entry but did not make it on the big night at Kodak theatre.
In the hunt for the Oscars pertaining to movies made and released in 2008 is also ‘Guitar’ Prasanna, the composer of the background music score for the documentary Smile Pinki, made by Magan Mylan.
Rahman is the first Indian to get three Oscar nominations, including one for best original score and for two songs in the film — Jai ho and O saya.
The odds are he will swing it, hopefully for the bigger one too, which is the best original score category.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
bio-data
Birth name
A. S. Dileep Kumar
Also known as
A. R. Rahman
Born
January 6, 1967 (1967-01-06) (age 42) in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Genre(s)
Film score, Theatre, World Music
Occupation(s)
Composer, record producer, music director, singer, instrumentalist, arranger, programmer
Years active
1992 – present
A. S. Dileep Kumar
Also known as
A. R. Rahman
Born
January 6, 1967 (1967-01-06) (age 42) in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Genre(s)
Film score, Theatre, World Music
Occupation(s)
Composer, record producer, music director, singer, instrumentalist, arranger, programmer
Years active
1992 – present
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