A.R Rahman wins Critics Award

A.R Rahman wins Critics Award

January 18, 2011

Music maestro A.R. Rahman won the Best Original Song award at the 16th Critics’ Choice Movie awards .The 45-year-old music director won the award for the song ’If I Rise’ for Danny Boyle’s film ’127 Hours’, a collaboration between Rahman and pop star Dido.The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are given annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) to honour the finest in cinematic achievement.

The star-studded ceremony was held at the Hollywood Palladium. ’The Social Network’ was named the year’s Best Picture and David Fincher won the Best Director award for the film.Colin Firth won the Best Actor award for his role in ’The King’s Speech’ and Natalie Portman was declared the Best Actress for her performance in ’Black Swan’.This is Rahman’s second collaboration with Boyle after ’Slumdog Millionaire’. (CHIT)

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A R Rahman wins two Grammys

A R Rahman wins two Grammys

February 2, 2010

Indian music maestro A R Rahman struck gold once again, bagging two trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards for his music in ’Slumdog Millionaire’.

Rahman won best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture and Jai Ho won best motion picture song. Rahman shares the Grammy with lyricist Gulzar who penned Jai Ho.

Rahman won the first Grammy of the pre-show at the Staples Center in the best compilation soundtrack for a motion picture category before his "Jai Ho" won in the best motion picture song category moments later.

"This is insane, god is great again," Rahman said as he accepted his second award before a VIP audience.

The song has been sung by Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Vijay Prakash and Rahman himself. This is the first time Rahman has been nominated for a Grammy. He joins other Indian music greats like Pandit Ravi Shankar, Zakir Jussain, Vikku Vinayak and Vishvamohan Bhatt who have won a Grammy in the past.

Rahman’s rivals in the soundtrack category included Steve Jordan for "Cadillac Records," Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds", and the producers of "Twilight" and "True Blood."

In the best song category Rahman’s beaten rivals included Bruce Springsteen for his song "The Wrestler", from the Oscar-nominated movie of the same name.

The Grammy success comes after Rahman earned two Oscars for his music in "Slumdog Millionaire" at last year’s Academy Awards.

The talented music maestro picked up the best original score statuette before scooping the best song Oscar.(NDTV) (CHIT)

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