Slumdog night (and Rahman)

by | Sunday, February 22, 2009

Slumdog rolled into the Oscars tonight. More important to me were the two Oscars for A. R. Rahman for original score and song. It is time that the world recognized his genius. Here is a cartoon by Kaladhar Bapu from his site Point Blank


A.R. Rahman by Kaladhar Bapu

Topics related to this post: Art | Creativity | Film | India

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2 Comments

  1. Punya Mishra

    I would agree. I am huge Indian Film music fan and Rahman is amazing.

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  2. Kiran Budhrani

    I totally agree. A.R. Rahman is great. Although, i was telling my colleagues that Jai Ho does add a “new” beat for the West, but to someone who listens to Bollywood music alot (like me), i have heard better by A.R. Rahman.

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