It would of greatest honor if the music director of Slumdog Millionaire, A. R. Rahman wins an Oscar on Sunday.  Rahman is ranked among the most tallented and successful film composers in India. With his 3 Oscar nominations, best original score and best original song, for both “Jai Ho” and “O … Saya,”, Rahman is the first Indian bag individual nomination in Oscar. The whole score of the movie was recorded in London.

“It would be a great honor”, exclaimed Mr. Rahman with that dimple from Los Angeles, where he was preparing to perform at the ceremony. “It would help me to do bigger things”.

When asked to name a few Western directors he would like to work with, he simply said, “Baz Luhrmann, Ridley Scott. I’m a big fan of Ridley”.

This 43 year old musician from India has worked in more than 100 films since 1992. He scored for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bollywood themed stage musical “Bombay Dreams” in 2002. Since then the career graph Rahman has seen a steady growth in the West.

“I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind, while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is”, added the musician.

Rahman’s tunes have enthralled many globally and specially in India. He creates a fusion melody of Indian and Western Classical music. “ He has a rapper from Tanzania working with him and fulfilled a mutual desire to work with M.I.A., part Sri Lankan, part London, part New York. Add the house-music disco beats sweeping Bollywood dance lately and you have a real moment of fusion”, said Danny Boyle, the director of Slumdog.

Rahman, right after the nominations were announced for the 81st Academy Awards, became a national-hero. Good luck to you Mr. Rahman.

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