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Music maestro A R Rahman was in the national capital for a special screening of Oscar winning film Slumdog Crorepati, the Hindi version of Slumdog Millionaire at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Jai ho and ‘Slumdog’ have not only ruled the Oscars but have also emerged as the top ‘HollyWords’ that influenced the English language most in 2008.‘Jai ho’ Oscar winning original score composed by A R Rahman from Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and the word ‘Slumdog’, from the same film, that was used to describe young slum-dwellers in Mumbai were named the top two Hollywood words of 2008 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM) in its 6th Annual Survey..

Music maestro A R Rahman has said that the song ‘Kaadhale…’, which is making waves in the internet claiming that it is one of the numbers composed by him for Mani Ratnam’s Raavan, is not from the film

It's a big day for India, as music
maestro A.R. Rahman has become the first Indian composer to scoop an Oscar for his music in Slumdog Milllionaire.
This is the first time that an Indian has won more than one nomination in Oscar history and also the first time an Indian music director has won the prestigious award.

Oscar winning music maestro A.R. Rahman has won the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year award 2009 in the entertainment category.

The iconic figure of modern Indian music industry, Allah Rakha Rahman, who has won two Oscars for Slumdog Millionaire, was honoured at a special function organised in the city on Saturday.And felicitating him was no less than P Susheela , the melody queen and legendary playback singer who ruled the south Indian film industry for over half a century.

Music maestro AR Rahman has offered to hold a peace concert in January next year in Australia where many Indian students have been target of alleged racial attacks.
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Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will confer a doctorate degree on music maestro A R Rahman, who created history by becoming the first Indian to bag two Oscars, varsity officials said Wednesday.

“We have decided to celebrate Rahman’s Oscar victory by presenting him the doctorate degree at the upcoming annual convocation to be organised on the campus Mar 25,” AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar told IANS on telephone.

Forget the Oscars, the biggest Indian winners of the Slumdog Millionaire fairytale are two of the film's child actorsplucked from the shanty towns of Mumbai, after it emerged they are to be given "free homes" by the state government.