AR Rahman and Resul Pookutty make India proud at the Oscars!

Posted by on Feb 23, 2009 in Indian Celebrities, Indian Cinema

Slumdog Millionaire produced three individual Oscars for India with Music Maestro AR Rahman bagging two of them for Best Original Music Score and the Best Song (for Jai Ho) while the little known Resul Pookutty got an Oscar for Best Sound Mixing.AR Rahman had a great chance of winning the Oscar as two out of the three nominations in the Best Song were his. The other song of ARR apart from Jai Ho to be nominated was ‘O… Saya’. The Oscar for Jai Ho will be shared with veteran Hindi lyricist Gulzar for penning the lyrics, Gulzar though preferred to stay back home and watch the glory on the small screen.

AR Rahman: There is no need of any introduction about AR Rahman. It was in 1992 that a whizkid was born in the Indian film industry through a patriotic movie by ace director Mani Ratman in the form of Roja. That movie announced the arrival of a fresh breath of air in the otherwise dull and stagnant music industry; he was Allah Rakha Rahman, just 25 years of age at that time. The other whizkid making waves at that time in India was Sachin Tendulkar! Well like Jamal Malik of Slumdog Millionaire, Rahman (born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1967 in Madras, now Chennai) himself has had a fairy tale life, overcoming many difficulties in his childhood to become a legend in his field and besides that redefining Indian Film Music. Before Rahman had come, there were only a few really great music directors like Illayaraja. The Music industry was never that rich and the music was just used as fillers in the movies with some of the audiences taking a toilet or cigarette break whenever a song had come on the screen.

The best part of AR Rehman was that he has been very selective in picking movies which meant that he always tried to give his heart and soul for each track that he composed. He made people wait for his releases, especially his fans who would do everything to buy the cassette (now CDs) on the first day of the audio release. A lot of his fans would have a collection of all his albums irrespective of whether they understand Tamil, Telugu or Hindi and mind you without hearing the music at all before buying! Incredibly most of Rahman’s music sucks at the first hearing but on listening more and more it somehow manages to win the hearts of music lovers. The ‘Jai Ho’ song is a prime example of this. The reason could be that AR Rahman is always looking to experiment and come up with something very new most of the time.

The Slumdog Millionaire ironically is no way his best work but yet got him a couple of Oscars! Another irony is that ARR who takes months to compose an album took a damn two weeks to wrap up Slumdog Millionaire! Another fact is that the Best Song ‘Jai Ho’ was planned for the Bollywood Movie ‘Yuvvraj’ and it was a last minute twist to have it for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. It is the same song, same music but a different fate all because it was a movie made by a non-Indian. AR Rahman fans and a billion Indians would take that anyway as atleast this exposes the finest talent of their country to millions across the globe. AR Rahman was with his beautiful wife ‘Sairo Bhano’ during the awards.

Lyrics of the Academy Award-winning song ‘Jai Ho’ which was sung by Sukhwinder Singh (of Chaiya Chaiya fame), Tanvi Shah and Mahalakshmi Iyer.

Jai Ho Jai Ho Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Aaja Aaja Jind Shamiyane Ke Tale
 Aaja Jariwale Nile Aasman Ke Tale
 Jai Ho Jai Ho

Aaja Aaja Jind Shamiyane Ke Tale
 Aaja Jariwale Nile Aasman Ke Tale
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho

Ratti Ratti Sachi Maine Jaan Gavayi Hai
 Nach Nach Koylo Pe Raat Bitayi Hai
 Akhiyon Ki Neend Maine Phoonko Se Uda Di
 Neele Neele Tare Maine Ungli Jalayi Hai
 Aaja Aaja Jind Shamiyane Ke Tale
 Aaja Jariwale Nile Aasman Ke Tale
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho

Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Chakh Le Ho Chakh Le Ye Raat Shahad Hai Chakh Le
 Rakh Le Haan Dil Hai Dil Aakhri Had Hai Rakh Le
 Kala Kala Kajal Tera Koi Kala Jadoo Hai Na

Kala Kala Kajal Tera Koi Kala Jadoo Hai Na
 Aaja Aaja Jind Shamiyane Ke Tale
 Aaja Jariwale Nile Aasman Ke Tale, Jai Ho, Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho ….
 Kab Se Ha Kab Se Jo Lab Pe Ruki Hai Keh De
 Keh De Ha Keh De Ab Aankh Jhuki Hai.. Keh De

Aisi Aisi Roshan Aankhe Roshan Do Do Bhi Hai Hai Kya
 Aaja Aaja Jind Shamiyane Ke Tale
 Aaja Jariwale Nile Aasman Ke Tale
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho
 Jai Ho Jai Ho

Resul Pookutty: This Sound Designer made the state of Kerala and his country proud with the Oscar for ‘Best Sound Editing’. The 37-year-old’ Resul’s biggest break was the critically acclaimed Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black in 2005. Resul went ahead in his career working for Gandhi, My Father and Saawariya in the year 2007. The next year he did a couple of huge movies – Slumdog Millionarie which has made his name popular in the common household of India and the Bollywood movie Ghajini.

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