“Mozart Of Madras”: Rahman Wins Golden Globe Award

Bollywood’s celebrated film music director, Allah Rakkha Rahman has created history by becoming the first Indian to bag the prestigious Golden Globe Award on Sunday. Rahman has sold nearly as many albums as Madonna, reports Reuters.

“His scores for a host of Indian language movies have fused global influences from hip-hop and rap to Broadway musicals and Indian folk music in a way that critics believe could help Bollywood music become more global.

“Rahman, 43, wrote the music for the rags-to-riches romance of a Mumbai slum boy. The film (”Slumdog Millionaire”) also bagged three more Golden Globe honours for best drama, best director and best screenwriter.” More here…

The IANS reports: “The 66th annual Golden Globe awards run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of about 90 reporters covering show business for overseas outlets, were presented at a glittering ceremony in Beverly Hills, California Sunday night,

“Rahman also won the Best Composer award Friday as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ swept the 14th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards winning five top prizes including Best Picture of 2008. The film also won Best Director for Boyle, Best Writer for Simon Beaufoy, and Best Young Actor/Actress for Dev Patel.

“Besides the Golden Globes, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has now won nominations for the top award by all five of the US film industry’s major artistic guilds – Screen Actors Guild, Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, and American Society of Cinematographers. Members of these groups represent a substantial block of the 5,810 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which will award the Oscars Feb 22.” More here…

Working in several of India’s various state/language film industries, international cinema and theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sold more than one hundred million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide, and sold over two hundred million cassettes making him one of the world’s top 10 all-time top selling recording artists. His acclaimed music compositions have led TIME Magazine to declare him the “Mozart of Madras”.More here…