Rahman wants Indian music to win Oscar
By MIO Team
Mar 22, 2007, 12:19

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A.R. Rahman is no doubt one of the most successful music composers in India. He has proved his versatility by composing innumerable hits ranging from romantic to foot-tapping numbers. He has innovated various instruments and sounds into Indian music and made them popular. However, he has a bigger dream – to win an Oscar. His dream sounds real, as three of his songs were short-listed for this year’s Academy Award in the Best Original Song category though they failed to make it to the finals.

He knows exactly why his songs failed to win Oscar this year. He said that the songs that are considered hits in India are alien to the western audience. He added that the only way to win the prestigious award is by composing tunes that are familiar to the west.

Music seems to run in his veins. His father R.K. Sekhar, who was a musician, died when he was only nine years old. However, he had been his source of inspiration. He said that his father’s influence on his musical compositions is enormous and thus he dedicates his creations to him. He started performing at the age of 13 but it was only when he took up commercials at the age of 18 and 19 that people started recognizing his compositions. Then he was shot to fame in 1992 for his soulful musical composition for Bollywood hit ‘Roja’.

He is looking forward to compose different kind of music this year to surprise the audience. So, expect the unexpected from him!



** me too! but not when you submit RDB as best music, it will if you submit films like WATER and BOSE THE HERO!! poor music/poor choices do not take you any where.

I did not like Babel as a film, but background was done very well, the way it picked essence of 3 disjointed cultures, so no doubt it got nominated.

Amazing biological miracle...

rehman survived that moment..lol

but thats not my fault

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/n/i/top%20stories/2172/

Miracles of English language.

Must have meant:

His(A R Rahman) father R.K. Sekhar, who was a musician, died when he (A R Rahman) was only nine years old.

9 yrs must be for A R Rahman's age.

Uh... that's kind of problematic. I'm not a big follower of the "authenticity of culture" argument, but I don't think that's the way to go around it. And why do we need validation from the Oscars? They gave Crash the Best Picture award last year. I mean, please.

"Rahman wants to win an Oscar" is a big leap to make from three of his songs being shortlisted for a nomination. Also, if he actually said any of this stuff, why are there no quotes? Why is it all paraphrased?



I think there is a Steven Wright joke that goes, "I had a grandfather who died as an infant"

While water was nominated in top 5 finalist, soundtrack had very high chances, but was not nominated.

Btw I was disappointed with GURU!

Guru songs only works when you see them alongside the visuals. However, the placement of the songs are too erratic.

I was not much enlightened with background music either this time around!!

I could not figure out whether Mani is making a period film or commercial flick.

I would have liked to see more intense situations, confrontations, dialogues exchanges between guru and his adversary reporter group, but all lost in translation I guess, only thing I could see was song after song, some dream, some non dream to please front benchers, with no relation to the story at all, to show, be hangam abhishek dancing like a clown.

Ay Hairathe was chopped up so much that I wonder why he even put it in the film. This film did not need songs at all.

He throws maya maya, to front benchers in the begining of the movie, after 2 minutes, he throws megha with aish entery, after 3 minutes another crap in there, then I could not believe he threw tere bina as dream sequence and then elderly couple celebrating ek lo ek muft eek!

Aey Hairat..my fav..lost in some where????? what da hell, Mani was doing?? I could not figure out what was film's genre, just hop hodge , simply mediocre affair, that brings mollah to every one these days so they get conditioned to down the drain cinema, and lets go, send guru for oscars, and its music too or eklavya, worst vvc film ever imho