A.R. Rahman & Pussycat Dolls: 'Jai Ho!' Released on Monday, March 16 2009 By Nick Levine, Music Editor
If someone had told you this time last year that A.R. Rahman, the Indian film composer once dubbed the "Mozart of Madras", would be collaborating with the Pussycat Dolls, you'd have said, "Yeah right - and Bob Dylan's going to duet with Britney". Well, thanks to the ever-swelling power of Slumdog Millionaire, the seemingly ridiculous has happened. In fact, the unlikely pair - well, sextet - have teamed up for an "English interpretation" of 'Jai Ho!', the winner of this year's Oscar for Best Original Song. The Hindi original, which soundtracks the Bollywood dance routine at the end of the movie, is far more urgent and atmospheric, but this remake works nicely enough as a slick, shamelessly opportunistic PCD single. Well, that hollered "JAI HO!" makes for a pretty sweet pop hook, you have to admit. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a149026/ar-rahman--pussycat-dolls-jai-ho.html
