[arr] Re: Jai Ho not my best, says Rahman

[ramakrisha laxmana subramanian siva gopala acharya iyer .aiyooo amma idli wada dosa sambar chatni .]

Even though 'JAI HO' is not AR's best, It is still a very good song. I 
really hope people get to hear the rest of AR's songs!


--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Bivin Chandra <bivinchan...@...> 
wrote:
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> K. Sreedevi  | Friday, 27 February , 2009, 18:55
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> Chennai: Did you know that Slumdog Millionaire - the film that 
bagged eight Oscars this year - had no takers when it was released? 
And that Rahman feels more passionate about his songs in the Aamir 
Khan-starrer Lagaan than about Jai Ho? 
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> “ I had only five per cent expectation about the Oscar for Slumdog 
Millionaire. In fact, I was more bothered about my live performance 
and that was extraordinary and its impact was much more,” confessed a 
jet-lagged Rahman at the first press meet after his Oscar award on 
Thursday, February 26, in Chennai. 
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> “Originally, they wanted me to do a live performance of the Hindi 
remix song, aaj ki raat. But I wanted to present my own composition 
before the world audience and hence I changed it to Jai Ho,” said the 
Mozart of Madras, who made up for the two-hour delay in the press meet 
by patiently obliging the battery of press photographers and 
television crew with exclusive shots with both Oscars in hand. 
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> “Music has no language and it is this aspect that the film has 
brought out,” said Rahman who humbly dedicated his double Oscars to 
all his countrymen.
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> Confessing that Slumdog Millionaire was definitely not his 
masterpiece, Rahman said Jai Ho was more about “a burst of joy and 
signified the release of external energy.” He attributed the awards 
to Gulzar’s skills of making the songs “phonetically catchy” 
which clicked with the Western audience. 
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>  “Though the Americans are clueless about the meaning of the song, 
words like Jai Ho, O Saya, Ringa, ringa seem to have caught their 
fancy and am happy that they are now listening to Indian music,” said 
the Oscar winner, who already has a couple of Hollywood offers at 
hand. 
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> When pointed out that the film had bagged the Oscars only under a 
British tag, Rahman replied, “Hollywood is the world’s stage and 
films are pieces of art and they are valued for their worth. Only 
India had not got there till now but this was India’s time. Danny 
Boyle’s film was a beautiful one and my music was just an ornament 
that added to the beauty. This award would popularise Indian music in 
the world scenario. A lot of collaboration is possible now.” 
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> Admitting that he felt more joyous and comfortable with devotional 
songs than beat songs, Rahman felt that the Oscars had doubled his 
responsibility and that now “his priority was doing good films, be 
it in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu or English.” 
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> “My dream is to connect people with music and probably this 
incident has unified all of us. I think this is a starting point of 
extraordinary things,” he proclaimed. 
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> When queried about the partying and gifts that followed the Oscars, 
Rahman admitted that he had to leave all the champagne bottles back in 
the US owing to Customs trouble and brought back only the 2 Oscar 
statuettes “which carried a cash award of $500 each”. 
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> “After all that news, it was my kids who were more relieved to see 
me back. They bunked school that day and kept on e-mailing me â€" 
Daddy, get back to us,” said the responsible father. 
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