AR Rehman proudly took home Oscars for best music today. It was a historic moment on stage as he said 'ella pugazhum iraivanukke' in his typical humble style in front of the world audience.
you made my day. I was dejected when i checked up the news in the morning and thought Rehman did not get the oscar without realizing the ceremony is still on.
'ella pugazhum iraivanukke', typical Rahman. am so happy.
It was a really nice touch to hear ARR speak tamil in that atmosphere. Dont know how he thought about it. Definitely "Ella Pugazhum Iraivanukke". Its his humility and shyness which stands out.
> > It was a really nice touch to hear ARR speak tamil in that atmosphere. Dont > know how he thought about it. Definitely "Ella Pugazhum Iraivanukke". > Its his humility and shyness which stands out. >
I know he must have been emotionaly charged but then he should have given an exact translation of those words. the world was watching and the beauty of those three words would have been fit instead of "god is great." which is what he said.
i know some words cant be translated in entirety "all praise to god" or "all fame to god" wouldnt have been exact. what that line meant is
It wasn't Karan Johar...It was Karan Thapar in Hardtalk. It was the first interview of Rehman after Roja and he was incredibly shy. Thapar rates that as his toughest interview. Ofcourse, the successive interviews of ARR by the same gentleman were much more interesting.
Venkat, he was SO much better than what he was at golden globes, much better dressed (for international audience) and confident, no shyness or mumbling. Shyness might be perceived as humility in our country but abroad it comes across as lack of confidence and is not a good thing. Some of us watching had no doubt he would win, we just hoped he would not mumble something and walk off that nobody understood. But am sure he took some kind of stage training - he did fine, we can forgive that translation. My sister is mad he put out this hindi movie dialog 'mere paas maa hai' as if there is no tamil parellel for that, but hey he shared one award with a hindi guy (Gulzar) so that is forgiven too.
It was indeed a treat to watch the likes of Spielberg and Brad Pitt nodding to 'Jai Ho' although like any other thing there is lot of criticism over how it was staged.
ARR - What a sweet,genuine artist. I'm so grateful, Venkatesh, for your translation of his Tamil. Can't imagine a US movie person saying anything so selfless. Kathie > > I know he must have been emotionaly charged but then he should have > > given an exact translation of those words. the world was watching > and > > the beauty of those three words would have been fit instead of "god > > is great." which is what he said. > > > > i know some words cant be translated in entirety > > "all praise to god" > > or "all fame to god" wouldnt have been exact. > > what that line meant is > > > > "all the fame-- only for god" > > > > venketesh >
I join the other members of the Ponniyin Selvan Group in conveying my heartiest congratulations to A.R.Rahuman - Music Director, who has earned a great name and much fame for himself, for Tamil Nadu, and to India as a whole at International Level, by he winning the two Oscar awards this year.
It is a happy moment to know that the long pending recognition of Indian talent by the Oscars has come through now. I would like to look at this award as given to the other much-deserving talents from India over the years, along with A.R.Rahman. It is India's good fortune that this film was an English production and so was eligible to participate in the competition. Else our only entry option was in the Best Foreign Film category.
Better late than never.... Congrats to Rahman, the film's team and all the other unsung talents who have made equally good / better movies / music but were either excluded or overlooked over the years.