I hear many people saying that A R Rahman should not have received Oscar award for Slumdog Millionaire. I want to ask them who they think should have received best music director Oscar award in 2009? Should it be Alexandre Desplat for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or James Newton Howard for Defiance or Danny Elfman for Milk or Thomas Newman for WALL-E?
So when you argue that A R Rahman shouldn’t have received the Oscar award for Slumdog Millionaire in 2009, please tell me who among the above mentioned music directors should have got it that year.
I don’t understand why people in India don’t understand the simple fact that the Oscar award for the best music director in 2009 was NOT to honor “The Best Music Director of the World Ever Walked on the Earth” or for “The Greatest Music Director of All Time”. Neither was it designed to locate, identify and honor the “Best Unexplored Music Director Whose Work is Never Recognized and Who is Living in Some Corner of the Earth” nor to pick up the “Best Work Ever Done by Someone Called A R Rahman”.
So when A R Rahman was nominated for Slumdog Millionaire for the Oscar award in 2009, he was not competing with Illiyaraja, MSV, R D Burman, S D Burman or Naushad.
So when A R Rahman was nominated for Slumdog Millionaire for the Oscar award in 2009, his work was not being compared with Roja, Thiruda Thiruda, Bombay, Kannathil Mutthamittal, Zubeida or any other classic by him.
So when A R Rahman was nominated for Slumdog Millionaire for the Oscar award in 2009, he was competing against Alexandre Desplat for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, James Newton Howard for Defiance, Danny Elfman for Milk and Thomas Newman for WALL-E.
The jury of the Oscar awards thought his score was the best compared to other four so he got the award in 2009. Every year someone is getting the best music director Oscar award for example, Michael Giacchino for Up in 2010 and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network.
But people in India are still stuck in 2009 Oscar awards and never stops making comments like “Illiyaraja is better music director than A R Rahman. How can A R Rahman get Oscar award”, “R D Burman is all time best music director. A R Rahman’s composition in Slumdog Millionaire doesn’t even stand in front of any R D Burman composition. A R Rahman doesn’t deserve Oscar for that”, “A R Rahman has composed many better music than that of Slumdog Millionaire. He shouldn’t have received Oscar for that”...etc etc...
I can’t stop but laughing when I hear such statements because I know any reasoning to them would be futile. And If I try to explain the facts that I have written here to them they will say “Oh, you are so biased!”….but still they just can’t see the reality.
I thought I would post this feelings of mine in my blog. You might think why I am posting this after two years of A R Rahman getting the Oscar award? Well, better late than never :)
4 comments:
But how come he got the nomination?
Hey, the anonymous is me who said how come he got the nomination :-)
To Madhu,
He received the nomination because he worked in a mainstream American movie....so even if he had given better music in other movies that were not mainstream American movie, he would have never got the nomination...as simple as that :)
Rahman is the BEST music director. The next best I think is RDBurman. A MD needs versatility which except ARR and RDB, nobody has. And for me I ignore the idiots who question Rahman's eligibility for Oscars. He has won the oscars, not one but 2 and that's the reality ! ARR is my Guru !
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