A.R Rehman, one of the most deserving musical composer wins Academy Awards in the 81st award ceremony. He grabs oscar statuette in his both hands, one for his best original score and the other for best original song (Jai Ho) sharing with Guzar for the film Slumdog Millionarie. Resul Pookutty wins Oscar for best sound mixing for the same film. It is a great recognition for these achievers and a historic moment for India at Oscars.
Slumdog Millionarie also bagged another 5 awards in the category of Best Film, Best Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Adapted Screenplay making a total count of 8 wins out of 10 nominations.
I am truly not impressed with this film, but sincerely appreciate The Music Maestro and Resul Pookutty for winning their awards. According to me, "Jai Ho" is not one of A.R's masterpiece. Some of the greatest works of him include, starting from his first film Roja and others like Taal, Dil Se, Thiruda Thiruda, Vande Mataram to name a few. A.R stands out from many other Indian music directors with his original music composition, unlike many others who have many times borrowed (stolen?) music of other countries. I think it finally worked out right for A.R, by being at the right place (Hollywood) at right time with the right director Danny Boyle. To me, this award to A.R is a recognition for his musical work since 1992.
About the movie, Danny Boyle says that it is an optimistic movie and he brings out the hope of a slum boy who suffers through out his life. I wonder how many got inspired with this movie! I at least, didn't take away any of these when I finished watching the movie. Though the depiction of slums and the people living there were realistic, the story was not. The story is piled up with imagination, which makes it good, but can't be claimed realistic. When the story is not realistic, it becomes hard to relate to it and it is difficult to take away what Boyle is trying to say, the hope. In the movie, to me, the truly interesting part was how the director has interleaved incidents happening across three time frames.
Among all these celebration of Slumdog Millionarie, Indian film industry is celebrating it as its own victory. What bothers me is that, they truly fail to understand that in more than 50 years of movie making, with about 1000 movies releasing a year, we fail to make one such movie and take it to Oscars. Surely, Slumdog involved very many Indian artists & technicians and also story based in Mumbai slums, but shouldn't there be a limit to Indian film fraternity taking credit in Slumdog's jai ho?!
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