A.R.Rahman has won two Grammy Awards, isn’t that quite an achievement. It’s not unbelievable though, considering what a big hit the movie, Slumdog Millionaire was and the Oscars Slumdog won last year. The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards was held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, and in India it has been quite a pleasant surprise to us on Monday morning. This is the first time Rahman has been nominated for a Grammy. He now joins other Indian music greats like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Zakir Jussain, Vikku Vinayak and Vishvamohan Bhatt who have won Grammy Awards in the past.
He has won the award for ‘Jai Ho’ (From Slumdog Millionaire) for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media beating ‘The Wrestler’ (From The Wrestler) written by the boss, Bruce Springsteen himself, ‘Decode’ (From Twilight), ‘All Is Love’ (From Where The Wild Things Are) and ‘Once In A Lifetime’ (From Cadillac Records). “Jai ho” has been sung by Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Vijay Prakash and Rahman himself.
The other Award won by Rehman is for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for Slumdog Millionaire, beating the others: Cadillac Records, Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, True Blood and the Twilight.
This is what he had to say on being handed the Grammy: "Insane, eh? I never even dreamt about winning all these awards. I once again want to thank the Almighty, my spiritual Sufi teachers Ameen Peerullah Malik Sahib, Danny Boyle, Fox and the whole Slumdog creative team, all the awesome actors in the movie, MIA, Resul Pookutty, my whole team, Gulzaarji, Sukvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah and Vijay Prakaash.
My friend and sound engineer the late H Sridhar, Deepak, P A Chetan, Vivvianne Chaix, Aditya Modi, Sivakumar, Noell James, Ganesh, Faiz, Anne-Marie, Ranjit Barot and the folks at Nirvana.My agents Sam Schwartz and Amos Newman. My friends Karan, Gopal and Vijay, Deepak Gattani, Mohan Chopra, Chris and Simon Long. My mentor Mani Rathnam, my mentors in Mumbai Shekhar Kapur and Subhash Ghai, and my mentor in the west, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Folks at IDPR, Allison and Courtney. My extraordinary musicians from Chennai and Mumbai. My mother, my father, my sisters and my lovely wife and children. And all my well wishers from the world who keep me going. Jai ho, India!"
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