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A day after the rags to riches film scooped eight Oscars, Parliament hailed the success saying the ‘historic achievement’ of three Indians winning Academy Awards is a global acknowledgment of the excellence of Indian artistes.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee led their respective Houses in paying rich tributes to A R Rahman, Gulzar and Resul Pookutty for bringing laurels to the country.
As soon as the Lok Sabha assembled for the day, Chatterjee made a statement congratulating the awardees and the entire teams of 'Slumdog' as well as 'Smile Pinki', a short documentary based on the life of a cleft-lip affected Indian girl that bagged an Oscar.
Chatterjee could not help humming the 'Jai Ho' tune at the end of his statement bringing cheers in the House.
In Tamil Nadu from where Rahman hails, the 'Jai Ho' tunes were played across the jails in the state with DGP (Prisons) R Nataraj saying the inmates were ‘really overjoyed’. The prisoners also enthusiastically gave a rendition of the foot-tapping number.
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Why there is a euphoria on this ? . by and large these awards are fixed . This year Academy awards are being manipulated to the political end . An oscar to a movie with a story of the resurgence of a Muslim boy in an adverse circumstance and the award going to two of the Muslim artists is sure enough way to please the Muslim world. As Obama said in his inaugural speech " America is not the enemy of the Muslim world " and this is the best stage to demonstrate that . We all know that neither Slumdog or its music is not that great in any sense .Like Miss world/Universe contests ..Academy awards too fell in political line.
Here is a question to slumdog critics like the Bachan family: INDIAN TEAM HAS SOUTH AFRICAN COACH... DOES THAT MAKE IT A SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM? 3 Oscars went to Indians, and let us celebrate that. So what if other oscars went to British? We never complain when Tata took over the British brand of Jaguar car. We never complain when British people lose their jobs to Indians because of offshoring/outsourcing. Why this hypocrisy? Let us celebrate, and stop fussing over silly British vs Indian stuff.
Happiness at our own songs and dialogues is natural. Even the most learned can obtain self gratification by laughing at one's own weaknesses and situations which are helpless. But, this is acceptable only if it is followed by dawning of reality on our minds, and leading to correct measures. The real slums stink like hell. Now it is time for the real lyrics. The REAL lyrics can do justice only if they highlight the plight of slums, and help in bringing revolution by stoking the passion of destitutes to get rid of this situation by changing politicians who have done nothing to improve our nation.
So is Rahman statement coming true. Music could overcome languages, countries and tie people togetther>