not his overall best - but best among the nominated ones!
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Vithur <vith...@...> wrote: > > Rahman said 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. > > "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. > > "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. > > "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. > > "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. > > 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." > > "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. > > 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". > > "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 Daddy, get back to > us," said the responsible father. > http://keralaonline.com/entertainment/slumdog-rahman_25107.html > > -- > regards, > Vithur >
