A.R.Rahman Wins Two Grammy Awards

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!"

\../ GREAT INDIAN ROCK FESTIVAL 2009 \../

Hey all my headbanging batchmates...the great Indian rock festival has come to an end and my my what a show that was!!! Its something that is worth a mention in ny blog and when there r a couple of metalheads in our college then we gotta share it with all u guyz... Alrighty then.....

24-10-09 Day One

....Saturday....the air was thick with music...we reached there by 5 ...completely dressed for the occasion of course saving sm fr the next day.... we could hear cybals being smashed frm a mile away..... excited as we were we all rushed in after being greeted rather exotically by the bouncers completely dressed in black with matching black shoes and a grin that can make the best back off.... The first band lined up was RABBIT WAS RICH which was a band frm Delhi.... judging by the name we figured it out to be a some-some band with a guitar...bt what a shock we were into...they blew our tops by belting out covers from lamb of god n played some of their originals too that was enough for us to wait justa lil longer for the rest...

k...a lil rest n then second band THE CIRCUS were to perform. The volunteers were busy configuring guitars n changing drums when we glanced upon smbdy....there he was,,,,,Vinay Venkatesh...bhayanak maut frontman who were to perform the other day....man.....it was almost sm dream come true moment fr all o us.....we bashed ahead of the crowd n gt his autograph n sm photos..... we’ve been all dreaming to grow a beard like his,,,,bt u kw....dat doesn’t exactly goe with the formal dress code in the college does it ;) !!

ya so THE CIRCUS was next n did some pretty decent job ther.....next lined up was UNDYING INC,,,another one from Delhi....that was the band we wer waiting fr....the first string was pulled n ther we were ripping our shirts off bangin with a velocity that could make a jackhammer feel ashamed of itself...!!! man those guyz were insane.,.. loved every sec of it......

The next 2 bands were SOLSTATE from New Zealand and progressive rock/mathcore band from Norway BENEA REACH..while SOLSTATE belted out some good stuff it was BENEA REACH that did it for us... the vocals were...something you hear in bollywood graveyard scenes...hahhaha that was some good stuff....

show ended at about 9-45 n with a couple of bruises thanks to undying inc...we caught a bus and reached home..... bt our hearts longing for what was to await us for the next day..

25/10/09 5 pm, Day Two

AMOR N MS were to join us in the next pit screaming their lungs out pushing and showing people like some tribal ritual.....while bhayank rolled out their new singles we were lost, to their music,,,,,not before did they play ranti nasha did we leave them in peace!!! Sooo the stage was taken over by SCRIBE next who did quite an impressive job ,,,,, the show ended at 10 the last being INTRONAUT from USA who did their magic on stage...the drummer was exceptional..... Sooo;.....that’s the end of it....hope you guyz enjoyed reading it.... please contribute more so that we can make it something of n envy to our fellow colleges CHEERS!!!!!

AMOR "BODO" BARUA REIMEI SAMRO "ZUKUBE" EMMESS PRATEEK "PANDU" PANDEY ANANYA "BEAST" BI

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sorry guyz bt the videos arnt getting uploaded...plz lemme knw...if u ve the cure...

k gt sm videos frm youtube...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvvay_-JBYE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Nrez8-YDw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnWsuf7MwI

chk out amors page for more pics....