Jai Ho !!!

Congratulations Slumdog Millionaire for winning 8 Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards.
This award was special for India as the movie is based on slums on aamchi Mumbai and the Music was by the maestro A. R. Rehman. A. R. Rehman won two Oscars one for the song (JAI HO) and other for the music score. Apart from this it won:
1)Best Director
2)Best Picture
3)Best Cinematography
4)Best Sound Mixing
5)Best Editing
6)Best Adapted Screenplay
This has brought immense joy to the entire country. Apart from that the best Short Documentary has also gone to an Indian story, Smile Pinki.
Although Rehman has won for his music, I would like to say that this is not the Rehmanian music that we are accustomed to. This is quite a few notches below his usual best. But anyways it has helped India to appear on the global stage. Although the movie is a Hollywood movie, it wouldn’t have been what it is without the Indian actors and the indispensable Mumbai locales. The movie didn’t boast of a khan or a bachchan but had Anil Kapoor who did a great job. Although Dev Patel was the hero, I personally liked the kids. Especially the kid and juvenile Salim were lot better than the adult Salim. They had that shrewdness in their eyes which was missing in the adult Salim. Overall the movie had a charm and a new way of telling the story which set it apart from other movies of its kind.
I hope the Indian Popular awards will take notice of this and have few good movies on its nomination list instead of the movies they usually do…..
JAI HO !!!!!!!!!!!