Everybody in India celebrates Alla Rakha Rahman. Oscar award is sure a recognition for his genius and he well deserves that, eventhough I don’t feel oscar is the best award in the world. Probably it is more about glamour and glitter. But this gave a chance to west and US to get to know Rahman’s musical talent. Otherwise our musicians are not much exposed to western world. But Rahman composed wonderful songs right from the beginning of his career way back in 80s. I prefer to listen to the Tamil version of his songs to Hindi ones, it is more musical to my ears. For me it is a spiritual experience too. Rahman himself admitted that music composing is a spiritual journey to him. What is attractive about him is his humility. Born hindu who is converted to Islam he embodies the true spirit of Sufism - to surpass one’s ego.
And for sound Engineer Resul Pookutty, oscar award is a great honour and achievement. They both represents a bright and talented young India.
Slumdog is a well made film though commercial one, and I particularly liked the way director experiment with non-actors. He could tap the talent of slum kids that made them perform like seasoned actors. This film made slum kids dream a world beyond their limit, beyond their little shanty. There are many negative views in India about the success of this film. True it get noticed because of the British director. India had rags to rich stories in the romantic idealistic eras of 70s and 80s. But we don’t need to get upset about somebody show casing poverty. Instead we must get upset by the amount of poverty we have in India. Personally it stir my conscience whenever I see people live in abject poverty. This is one side of India which is poor and abandoned. And bad things get good publicity, but this is true of any nation. I feel we must take this criticism positively and work towards eradicating poverty.
But I do feel that Slumdog, Rahman and Resul got Oscar mainly because director knows oscar market well. it is all about marketing.
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