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goign out wiht friends tonight to calibrate.. lots of my friends called me up to congratulate me.. as if i was the one who won.. :)
my dad thinks am crazy, my sisters are also enjoying the moment, my mum thinks this is all funny... hehe
loving it all, still trying to sync it in, thought i was very sure he will win the Oscars i still cant believe it. i can only imagine how you Tamil Indians are feeling.. for once i wish i was one of you'll :)
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My parents clapped as they heard ARR as winner
as if they clapped for me :D
Jai Ho! We love you Rahman :)
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Tsunami survivors pray for A R Rahman
As Slumdog Millionaire eyes the coveted Oscars on February 22, thousands of tsunami victims in this part of Tamil Nadu are praying for music maestro A R Rahman's success, fondly remembering the healing touch he brought about in their lives in the aftermath of the tragedy.
Days after the tsunami attack, Rahman made a rare public appearance in July 2005 at Kottucherrymedu village near Karaikal and spent nearly 10 hours there, enthralling tsunami survivors with his music.
Though no publicity was given to the visit, thousands of tsunami survivors from about 11 fishing hamlets gathered there to listen to him.
When Rahman arrived at the village along with Drums Shivamani and popular singers Hariharan, Karthik and others, about 600 school students gave him a warm welcome by singing patriotic songs composed by him.
A large number of fishermen had gathered with garlands and shawls to present to Rahman.
Later, he performed a two hour open air concert.
Speaking to the media, A M H Nazeem, leader of the opposition in the Puducherry Assembly said he did not believe it when told Rahman was in the area. "When I went there, he was standing in the beach interacting with the survivors. For the performance, there was no stage, no loudspeakers - absolutely nothing," said Nazeem.
Rahman asked the people to bring three boats and kept them upside down, which then became the stage. He had brought all the musical equipment. "Then it was non-stop music for more than four hours," Nazeem said.
Not only did he enthrall the villagers with his music, but also went for a boat ride with them. Accompanied by Nazeem and other fishermen, Rahman ventured into the sea in a fibreglass boat.
While addressing the crowd, Rahman said he had come to the village on his own to bring happiness to the troubled hearts through music. He urged them to forget the sad memories of the tsunami and march ahead with courage and faith towards a bright future.
Today, nearly four years later, people of the 11 hamlets are grateful for his gesture. The news of three Oscar nominations for Slumdog Millionaire has made them extremely happy. "We are all praying that he wins Oscars in all the categories," said Senthil of Kottucherrymedu.
He said the youth of the village planned to put up digital banners in praise of Rahman.
Big B hails Rahman, Pookutty and Gulzar
New Delhi (IANS): Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has described the Oscar wins for A.R. Rahman, Gulzar and Resul Pookutty for "Slumdog Millionaire" as the "happiest day for Indians and the film industry".
In a message posted on his blog, Amitabh wrote: "My warmest and heartiest congratulations to A.R. Rahman and Resul (Pookutty) for winning recognition in music and sound and to Gulzar for co-assisting Rahman in the lyric category."
It is for the first time in the history of the Academy Awards that three Indians have won the Oscar - considered the penultimate award in global cinema. The film won eight Oscars.
"International recognition for Indian film talent on one of the most well-known and popular forums - this is the happiest day for Indians and the industry," said Amitabh.
Earlier, Amitabh had stoked a controversy by slamming "Slumdog Millionaire" as a film that "projects India as the Third World's dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots".
(The Hindu)
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Acceptance Speech - "Original Score"
Before coming, I was excited and terrified. The last time I felt like that was during my marriage. There's a dialogue from a Hindi film called "Mere paas ma hai," which means "I have nothing but I have a mother," so mother's here, her blessings are there with me. I am grateful for her to have come all the way. And I want to thank the Academy for being so kind, all the jury members. I want to thank Sam Schwartz, I/D PR, all the crew of Slumdog, Mr. Gulzar, Raqueeb Alam, Blaaze, my musicians in Chennai and Mumbai. And I want to tell something in Tamil, which says, which I normally say after every award which is... "God is great." Thank you.
Acceptance Speech - "Jai Ho"
A.R. Rahman: I just want to thank again the whole crew of Slumdog Millionaire, especially Danny Boyle for giving such a great opportunity. And the whole, all the people from Mumbai. The essence of the film which is about optimism and the power of hope in the lives, and all my life I had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I'm here. God bless.
‘I’m sensitive to sound’
K. SANTHOSH
With an Oscar nomination tucked under his belt, Resul Pookutty talks about “Slumdog Millionaire” and the art of picking and choosing sounds.
Prick up your ears. Random noises draw your attention to the visuals. You hear susurrations of distant traffic, the babble of voices in the streets, the hum of computers, the cacophony of sounds in slums, yelps, roars, ricochets and occasionally frag ments of birdsong.
They form the first coat of the sonic paint job that Resul Pookutty does in “Slumdog Millionaire”. He fuses them with dialogue and an evocative score to fashion a hit-you-in-the-gut track that got him an Oscar nomination for sound mixing. Shortly before he was nominated for the Academy awards, along with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, Pookutty won the BAFTA nomination in the best sound category and is one of the five sound-mixing nominees for the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Award.
On a cloudy afternoon as he sits down for an interview at a Kerala hotel, basking in the glory of the triple nomination, Pookutty is surrounded by a bevy of relatives, his siblings, nephews and nieces. Leaning back in his chair, he cautions the kids, “Don’t make noise. I’m sensitive to sound.”
He recalls challenges in the work for “Slumdog Millionaire”. “Recording the dialogue was not easy with multiple cameras whirring together. I had to re-invent my techniques. I placed a microphone in a hole bored in a computer facing Anil Kapoor.”
He dismisses the barrage of negative publicity against the film. “You are free to like or dislike the film; appreciation is relative! But accusing Danny Boyle of peddling poverty and exploiting child actors from slums is unfair. He was born in a working-class family. I found him caring, responsible and sensitive.”
Pookutty and his peers have re-defined the role of sound designers in Indian cinema. A sound designer is responsible for everything the audience hears — music scores, dialogue, Foleys and sound effects. “Till Bhansali’s “Black” lit up the cinematic firmament, no one in India paid attention to the sound designer,” he observes.
Audio collage
The story of a deaf, mute and blind girl in “Black” saw Pookutty knock together an abstract audio collage in which words dissolved into ever-changing patterns of ambient noise. The sound became a “character” in the narrative. “I thought: what is the sound of nothing? I communicated with hearing-impaired people and gathered how they respond to sound. A hearing-impaired man told me all he hears is a muted hum. That piece of information formed the basis for designing sounds for scenes featuring Rani Mukherji,” Pookutty states. He stripped out the key ambient sounds recorded for the scenes and retained the silences. Ghostly tail-ends of dialogue slipped into a void. “I experimented with novel, complexly textured sounds. I wanted the track to be totally fresh and different,” he recalls.
The less the sound is noticed, as master designer Walter Murch puts it, the more powerful it becomes. “Sound crosses the Berlin Wall of consciousness without alerting the border guards,” Murch adds. It should facilitate “a simultaneous leap of the audience through the membrane of the screen, like that of Alice through the looking-glass, like a dream the audience is having.”
Pookutty’s thoughts ran on a similar track while designing sound for Feroz Abbas Khan’s “Gandhi, My Father”. “A heavy track like that of ‘Ghajini’ would not have suited the Gandhian theme. It would have gone against the philosophy Khan’s film was rooted in. The film remains close to my heart. There are elements in it I identify with.”
He also relates to “Slumdog Millionaire”. “I recognise the teen from the Mumbai slums, the hero. I empathise with the eternal struggler in him. I grew up in a nondescript Kerala village and walked six km to school every day. I had just Rs. 200 in my bank account when I went to Mumbai seeking work as a sound-engineering graduate. I starved at times. I worked day and night to get a toe-hold in the industry,” he remembers.
After the 81st Academy Awards, he will pick and choose sounds for Rajat Kapoor’s “Rectangular Love Story”, Saurabh Shukla’s “Pappu Can’t Dance Sala”, Sharath’s “Rangeen in Love” and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming production. But right now, as the Oscars near, the only sounds he hears are those of his heart: Thud. Thud. Thud...
http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/02/15/...1550170500.htm
(The Hindu)
pangaali, you missed out the most important part of his speech!!! :rant: