Media-shy A.R. Rahman with wife Saira Banu at Oscars

Saira Banu wife of the scar-winning music maestro A.R. Rahman was not a much known face among the Indians. Here is the couples the red carpet photo at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for the 81st Annual Academy Awards.

Media-shy Saira Banu and A.R. Rahman was all over the TV screens worldwide they walked the red carpet. Continue Reading >>

Full List of Indian Oscar Award Winners

It was the greatest moment, when A R Rahman and Resul Pookutty received oscars. India has truly arrived at the Oscars now.

Here is the list of Indian Oscar Award Winners

2009: AR Rahman – Best original score (Slumdog Millionaire)
2009: AR Rahman and Gulzar – Best original song (Slumdog Millionaire)
2009: Resul Pookutty – Sound mixing (Slumdog Millionaire)
1992: Satyajit Ray – Lifetime Achievement
1983: Bhanu Athaiya – costume design (Gandhi)

A R Rahman Wins 2 Oscar Awards

A R Rahman Wins 2 Oscar Awards. A R Rahman become the third Indian to receive an Oscar, the others being Bhanu Athaiya and Satyajit Ray.

Here is the list

1. A R Rahman won Oscar Award for Best Original Score for the film Slumdog Millionaire.
2. A R Rahman wins Oscars for the achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) for the song Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire – Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Gulzar.

A R Rahman Wins Oscars for “Jai Ho” Song

A R Rahman wins Oscars for the achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) for the song Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) – Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Gulzar.

A R Rahman Wins Oscar Award !!!!

It’s REAL. A R Rahman Just won Oscar Award for Best Original Score for the film Slumdog Millionaire.
A R Rahman become only the third Indian to receive an Oscar, the others being Bhanu Athaiya and Satyajit Ray.

AR Rahman Interview with Telegraph

Experts from AR Rahman interview with British newsaper Telegraph

Only two Indians have ever won an Oscar costume designer Bhanu Athaiya for Gandhi (1982) and arthouse director Satyajit Ray who received a lifetime achievement award in 1992. However, with three Academy Award nominations this year for Slumdog Millionaire one for overall score and for two songs Chennai-based composer A R Rahman looks likely to be the third. He’s also up for the Best Music award at Sunday night’s Baftas.

“We’ve been waiting for this for 80 years,” said Rahman recently in The Hindu, the Indian daily newspaper. “I think it will create a bridge between Western and Indian audiences, and lead to more people exploring Indian music.”

Rahman’s first breakthrough tune Chinna Chinna Aasai, in the 1992 film Roja was a song of a poor man dreaming of riches. Rahman’s family had struggled after his father. His father’s eclectic tastes was inherited by his son, who formed a rock band in his teens and studied Western classical music (at Trinity College in London) and Indian classical music.

“Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60,” he tells me in the unlikely setting of his house in Tufnell Park, where he lives when he is in London.

He’s already the first Indian national to pick up a Golden Globe (for Slumdog), and says: “I hope we get at least one [Oscar]. I cannot wait for the announcement.”

[ Interview with AR Rahman, the composer behind the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack ]