Chennai erupted into spontaneous celebrations as the music maestro bagged two Grammies.
The names of Oscar winner Resul Pookutty and eminent Ayurvedic physician P K Warrier, selected for Padma Shri award, had not been recommended to the centre by the Kerala government, according to the state information commission.
Over 25,000 fans in Toronto were disappointed when A R Rahman's Jai Ho Concert, which was scheduled for Sunday night at the city's Air Canada centre, was cancelled because of technical problems.
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Fans of the maestro are going to love this Tamil soundtrack.
The deadly combination of Suriya, Murugadoss and Harris Jayaraj is back.
In addition to being nominated in the best picture, director, adapted screenplay and music categories for the Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire is also expected to be nominated for cinematography, editing and costumes.
Awesome Star Power was evident at *the* wedding reception of the year.
The double Oscars and two Grammies winner A R Rahman, a practising Muslim, has taken it upon himself to promote love and unity through his music.
Judging by the songs, which all seem to begin promisingly but taper into nothingness, it looks like Vidyasagar really does need a shot of inspiration to boost his compositions.
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Some of the tickets are now selling for 1,050 dollars per person on the musician's official website.
Barring the very heavy western feel, this Tamil album does have something going for it.
Gautham Menon on Vinnaithandi Varuvaya.
AR Rahman has composed the soundtrack for the Hollywood romantic comedy starring Vince Vaughn.
''He was extremely gentle, humble, soft-spoken, down to earth, giving respect to senior musicians as well as to budding ones.'
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan may lost out on a Grammy win at the 52nd Grammy awards but the maestro is very happy for A R Rahman, who won two Grammies this year.
Here's why A R Rahman is the musical genius that he is.
Indian music maestro A R Rahman struck gold once again, bagging two trophies at the 52nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles for his music in Slumdog Millionaire.
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A R Rahman on Monday created history by becoming the first Indian to win two Oscars for his score in Slumdog Millionaire which swept the Academys, winning eight awards including one for sound engineer Resul Pookutty. The film, named the best at the Oscars, also fetched Danny Boyle the Best Director award, Simon Beaufoy best Adapted Screenplay and Anthony Dod Mantle the best Cinematography award. The rags-to-riches drama was also awarded for best Editing
The musical genius is finally getting his dues, and all because of Slumdog Millionaire.
But the icing in the cake will be the presence of its Oscar winners -- music director A R Rahman, lyricist Gulzar and sound engineer Resul Pookutty -- at the special screening.
Slumdog Millionaire bagged 10 Oscar nominations at the 81st annual Academy Awards.
An office bearer of a slum dwellers' body has filed a defamation case against music director A R Rahman and actor Anil Kapoor alleging that the award winning film Slumdog Millionaire calls Indians dogs and slum dwellers slum dogs.
Slumdog Millionaire has bagged five prestigious prizes including Best Composer award for Indian music maestro A R Rahman at Broadcast Film Critics Association's 14th annual Critics Choice Awards.
Penguin India has decided to publish the maestro's biography.
Watch the talk about the Global Citizen India Festival.
Composer A R Rahman on the sounds of Slumdog Millionaire.
Composer AR Rahman comes up with a lively yet unspectacular album.
Donald Trump, accompanied by US First Lady Melania Trump, was received by Kovind at the forecourt of majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan along with his wife Savita.
Director Shankar, Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, cinematographer Ratnavelu and a crew comprising of 40 people left for the US last Friday to shoot for the magnum opus Enthiram (formerly titled Robot).
Mahalakshmi Iyer, Vijay Prakash and Tanvi Shah were the other three besides Sukhwinder Singh sang in Rahman's award-winning song Jai Ho. Here are their stories.
As A R Rahman received his Oscars at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, everyone back home was cheering -- including his older sister Reihana, who is the mother of budding music composer G V Prakash. She talks to Shobha Warrier about the excitement at home.
"I don't know if he has seen Slumdog Millionaire. I know he wants to," White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, told reporters during the course of his daily press briefing.
