ARR Nominated for BAFTA Awards for "127 Hours"

An Academy Award Winner A R Rahman has been Nominated for British Academy of Films and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards for the 2nd time for the movie "127 Hours" Best Original Music Category directed by Oscar Award Winner "Danny Boyle"

The Other Nominees are:
Alice In Wonderland - by Danny Elfman
How To Train Your Dragon - by John Powell
Inception - by Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech - by Alexandre Desplat

A R Rahman BAFTA Award for Slumdog Millionaire

A R Rahman in Race of Golden Globe Award

An Oscar Award Nominee "A R Rahman" is now in Race of 2nd Golden Globe Award 2010. He has been nominated for in the Best Original Score category for his music in the Danny Boyle directed film "127 Hours".

A R Rahman has won his first Golden Globe Award in 2009 for "Slumdog Millionaire" directed by Danny Boyle for same category Best Original Score.

Hope he wons more and more awards in future.

Find the trailer of "127 Hours" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWWcQC0ZxIM

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A R Rahman Won Oscar Award for Slumdog:

Most awaited 81st Academy Awards cermony has begun. "Slumdog Millionare" of Danny Boyle has won the 6 Awards for its "Best Cinematography" for Anthony Dod Mantle, "Best Adapted Screenplay" Simon Beaufoy, "Best Sound Mixxing" for Resul Pookutty, A R Rahman won 2 Oscars for his "Best Background Score" and also for "Best Original Song"

Best Documentary Short Subject: Megan Mylan for "Smile Pinki"

Best Documentary Feature Film: Man on Wire

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BAFTA Award for A R Rahman for Slumdog

Britain's BAFTA Award were awarded to on Sunday, Slumdog bagged the Best Film and Best Directory and also in Other Five Categories. Music Maestro A R Rahman Won the BAFTA Award for the Best Music Score Category for "Slumdog Millionaire". This became the First Indian Musician to win the BAFTA Award.

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For More in BAFTA Award Log on to Times of India

Slumdog Nominated for Oscar Awards:

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, had bagged 10 Oscar Nominations. A R Rahman the Music Mastero had bagged tripple nominations for Best Original Score category and twice in the Best Original Song section. Rahman got the awards for the song “Jai Ho” and "O Saya”.

Below are the Nominations of Oscar Awards for Slumdog:
Best Motion Picture category, Best Director — Danny Boyle and Best Adapted Screenplay — Simon Beaufoy. Other nominations include Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing.

Other Films which are nominated for Oscar Awards are:
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Frost/Nixon," "Milk," and "The Reader"

For more Info Log on to Times of India

A R Rahman: First Indian to win Golden Globe Award

As the said in the previous post about the Golden Globe Award for Slumdog Millionaire. A R Rahman became the First Indian to Win Prestigious Golden Globe Award and he mentioned that it is dedicated to "billion people of India". He won the Prize for music score 'Jai Ho' in the film added to this he thanked director and his fellow musicians.

"Unbelievable..! I thought, I would not win, so anyways thanks to the almighty God for bringing me here... Danny Boyle, Fox pictures, all my musicians in Chennai, Mumbai,... and the billion people from India," he said while accepting the award.

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A R Rahman - A Happy Birthday

Wishing Music maestro AR Rahman a Many More Happy Returns of Day. I wish him all the success in his career...,

Abhishek, Aishwarya Rai singing and acting in Mani Ratnam's flick

Mani Ratnam's latest movie "Raavana" which is again pairing both Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai. This time they are also singing a song for the film Raavana, which is composed by A R Rahman.

Actually the song was composed for Mani Ratnam's project "Lajjo", but dont know what went wrong with "Lajjo", in the movie Lajjo a stunning cast Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor who paired opposite each other for the first time, Rahman wanted Kareena and Aamir to sing, but the project was abandoned.

Since the movie got abandoned, Rahman is now using that song for ‘Raavana’ and will get Ash and Abhi to sing.

‘Raavana’ is a big film by Mani Ratnam and he is repeating his favourite actors after the successful "Guru".

The movie is being made both in Tamil and Hindi language. In the Tamil version Vikram is paired opposite Aishwarya.

Black Reel Award for "Slumdog Millionaire"

This Years, 2008 Black Reel Awards in America released its awards for "Cadillac Records", "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Secret Life Of Bees"

Cadillac Records, a story of legendary blues label Chess - was named Best Film, Where as Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel was named Best Actor and Best Breakthrough Performance and Queen Latifah for the Best Actress crown for The Secret Life of Bees.

Best Film - Cadillac Records

Best Ensemble - Cadillac Records

Best Soundtrack - Slumdog Millionaire

Music for "Slumdog Millionaire" was composed by AR RAHMAN

A Free Hug by A.R. Rahman:
Here is the Video of "Free Hug" by A.R. Rahman



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Slumdog is in the running for 4 Golden Globe Nomination

A Golden Globe which is the prestigios award. Now Indian Music director, who is reputed all over the world, A.R. Rahman has won the prestigious Golden

Globe Nomination for his Best Original Score for this compostion in British Filmmaker Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire", which narriates the story about a street boy of mumbai.

Get the nomination Rahman Said ""It is good to hear about all these nominations, " and added to this also said "I always feel that I am just one of the elements and then combining it with other elements it becomes something else"

"Slumdog Millionaire" which is the another biggest western film score for A R Rahman after Shekhar Kapoor's ‘The Golden Age'.

Other than Background Score Slumdog has also won for other nominations - Best Film , Best Director for Boyle and Best Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy.

Best Actress nominations were Kate Winslet for ‘Revolutionary Road' and Angelina Jolie as a distraught mother in ‘The Changeling'.

"The Strange Case of Benjamin Button", starring Brad Pitt, and "Frost/Nixon" each garnered five Golden Globe nominations.

Pitt got a Best Actor nomination for "The Strange Case". Others in the fray were Leonardo DiCaprio for "Revolutionary Road", as well as Sean Penn as the title character in "Milk".