Archive for February, 2009

Kindly stop.

I wish the media would stop using “Slumdog Superstars”,”Slumdog actors” et al.It really irks me for some reason.Slumdog sounds very offensive.And pretty soon,the international media might start calling India the Slumdog country.Why is everyone so obsessed with the Slumdog part of the title ? Is it even an original English word ? Why not the Millionaire part ??

And,btw,I didn’t know till yesterday that ARR was a school dropout at 11.Look at me.Finished graduation and i don’t even have a single Oscar to my credit :-P .Forget the Oscars,I don’t even have a job as of now.

Any other trivia about this great man ?

Jai Ho.

No beginning is too small.When you are offered a coffee ad jingle,take it up.You never know.You might just go on to win at the Oscars :-)

Was truly a remarkable moment to watch A R Rahman get the Oscar.And again.

And you have to give it to whoever conceived the whole idea behind the 81st Academy Awards.The whole awards ceremony was so well presented ,sobre yet humorous at times.No wonder the Oscars command so much respect in the film industry.Just look at how they do it and how Filmfare or Screen awards do it.And the wow moments were 5 previous academy award winners to present the award to this year’s winner.Doesn’t get “wow”er than that,I guess.