A.R. Rahman Takes two Oscars for Slumdog Original Score and Best Song. Ealier A.R. Rahman had won a BAFTA Film Award for Best Music and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score – Motion Picture for the same movie Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman, composer of countless Kollywood and Bollywood scores, won for his transporting soundscape in Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s crowd-pleaser that is part potboiler, part fairy tale. His success tale was quiet evident by the number of awards he has got for his works..
Rahman started writing music for Indian TV ads in the early ’90s, eventually switching to film and composing dozens of soundtracks a year. In 2002, Andrew Lloyd Webber commissioned him to write the music for the play “Bombay Dreams,” which ran in London’s West End. Rahman also collaborated with London musician M.I.A. on the film’s acclaimed soundtrack.
Original song: ‘Jai Ho’ from Slumdog Millionaire, by A.R. Rahman and Sampooran Singh Gulzar
“Jai Ho” was one of two songs composed by Rahman that was nominated for original song from “Slumdog Millionaire.” It beat out the other song, “O Saya,” which was punctuated with stylish vocals from M.I.A., as well as Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman’s “Down to Earth” from Wall-E.
“Jai Ho” was the more accessible of the two Slumdog songs, an uplifting theme also threaded with tension. With lyrics by Sampooran Singh Gulzar, who often goes by the singular name Gulzar, “Jai Ho” was one of eight awards for “Slumdog Millionaire” and Rahman’s second Oscar of the night.
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