Oscar Results: Clean Sweep by Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle, AR Rahman et al.
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 23rd, 2009Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, Interviews, People
This evening the cast and crew of Slumdog Millionaire made a clean sweep at the Oscars by winning 8 awards out of 10 nominations. The tone for the evening was set when Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the screenplay won the first Oscars. The second half of the show was dominated by Slumdog Millionaire.Slumdog Millionaire won the Oscar for best film award while Danny Boyle won the Oscar for best director.Music composer AR Rahman created history by winning two Oscars. This is the first time that an Indian film composer won an Oscar. Resul Pookutty and team won the Oscar for sound mixing. I was lucky to have interviewed Danny Boyle and AR Rahman before the Oscars for NDTV.com. In the interview Danny Boyle mentioned that Slumdog Millionaire is a fusion film, where the first half is influenced by British cinema and the second half by Bollywood. Danny is interested in making a thriller set in Mumbai for his next project. Who knows it just might be a Bollywood film?In my 2-part interview with AR Rahman he talks about the Golden Globes and how he was mentally preparing for the Oscars. In Part-2 he talks about the role his mother shaped him and help him succeed. He also talks about one of his close friend and colleague Sridhar, who was his sound engineer who passed away in December 2008. What comes across in the interview with AR Rahman is his hard work, dedication and humbleness.
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Come on guys, no can’t be serious, Slumdog best music? best SONG????? this was truly offensive, I can’t see how it’s editing even had a chance over The Dark Knight, this was as authentic as a fixed boxing match.
Film is not “celebration of creativity”…..it is just any other movie made with goody-goody feel on human relationship and Love prevails non-sense. It is just that it is made by a westerner and distributed by “Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures”…hence it made a global opening….
India is portrayed as a pathetic slum which west wanted to see as they do not want to tarnish the image which they comply with.
Rest stupidity of congress to take the credit is cheap and they should try to do something for country rather than taking a bath in the glory of some movie.
Yeah, I am a big fan of Slumdog but I will have to agree with the guy above. I can’t see how it could have won for music editing, and the best song award is rubbish too.However everyone agrees that it deserved to win for Best Movie, Direction, screenplay and music.
I say a big YES to Slumdog Millionaire for best song (Jai Ho). What a REFRESHING change from all the other trivial movie soundtracks out there. It is new, different, exciting, what a GREAT rythmic feast for the ears. I LOVED IT!
Why not people make films on rich & dirty and why only poor and deprived are ridiculed and made fun of… Why there is not a single movie called “Page 3 Pigs of Delhi”?