Frozen Moment for every Indian : ella puhazhum iraivanukke

"A small step for man but a giant leap for mankind" why i am quoting Neil Amstrong here. i don't know. I just felt like quoting him. It is always nice to start with a quote.

A.R.Rahman(ARR) winning 2 Oscars and his acceptance speech will be a frozen moment for every Indian who appreciates good music and craves for the world to recognize the "new India".

It was really Oh! my God moment for Indians like me, who have been watching Oscars feverishly dating back to 1996. I had never ever dreamt that my fellow Indian, Tamilian will one day walk up the red carpet inside the Kodak theatre and bring back the Golden man. 

Man!!!! Is it really a case of 'rest of the world rediscovering India or India opening up to the rest of the world'. Whatever it is, today i have decided to give my rational thinking a paid vacation and i am emotionally enjoying and savouring these wonderful moments.   

Today was not just only about A.R.Rahman, there other two Indians who got the Oscar today. For the uninitiated 

BEST DOCUMENTARY : SMILE PINKI

SOUND MIXING : RESUL POOKUTTY

ARR acceptance Speech's transcript:

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 ella puhazhum iraivanukke: "God is great." Thank you.

P.S: If you had read my yesterday's  blog  you might think i am nuts? @#%$(

And the Oscar goes to....

With few hours away from the 81st Annual Academy awards is there chance for any movie to sweep the Oscars. Only two movies have a real chance to sweep the Oscars this year, (I) Curious case of Benjamin Button and (II) Slum dog millionaire.

I jumping the gun here and proclaiming that "Slum dog Millionaire"(SM) will sweep the 81st Academy awards. The reasons are mainly  twofold. 

1) There is no real competition from "The Curious case of Benjamin Button" since its a story of a human whose physical characteristics are unusually in the reverse order of life. He is born with physical characteristics of an old man, sagging skin, hardly he can hear and talk and dies a small baby. And there is a wonderful love story around Benjamin, which is beautifully narrated.

2) SM is the very symbol or child of the confluence of West and the East. It showcases the coming together of two different cultures. It also happens to come at a time when Hollywood cinema is finding it more difficult to attract the American audience to the theatre because of the American economic meltdown. The Hollywood industry needs a market to thrive and grow upon. Look no further than Indian cinema industry with an estimated revenue of 1.5 - 2 billion dollars. Is there any other enterprising market readily available for taking?