On the birthday of arguably India’s most famous musician, a throwback to when he won the original score and the original song Oscars in 2009. Jai Ho!
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00:00The score is for Slumdog Millionaire, and the song is Jai Ho.
00:03We will start with 245.
00:07If we can get her a mic, please.
00:15AR, congratulations.
00:17How do you think that your use of music
00:20is going to hopefully revolutionize
00:23the way music is used in Hollywood films from now on?
00:27It depends on the vision of the director
00:30and what film it is.
00:32It's worked out very well in this film
00:34because of Danny's vision of music.
00:37And so it's a teamwork.
00:40And I hope if people like this kind of style,
00:43maybe I'll go further with this.
00:47We're going to come down to 34 and then back to 241.
00:49241, I need you to leave that number up.
00:51Hi there.
00:52What to you are the best qualities about Indian music,
00:55and particularly about the music that you might find in Mumbai?
00:59What are the best qualities?
01:01Mumbai actually is rediscovering itself.
01:04There's a tradition, and there's contemporary film music
01:07happening.
01:08But it's got a wealth of extraordinary musical culture.
01:11Different states have different nuances and all this stuff.
01:14In this, 0.1% is what I've used, what is available.
01:19I think there's a huge treasure there.
01:23241 and then over to 104.
01:25Right here.
01:26Congratulations.
01:27One of your, the other nomination you had for best song,
01:32you had a co-writer, MIA, wondered
01:36if you could talk about whether she was able,
01:39whether there's any talk about her performing with you tonight,
01:42and how that all came about.
01:43There was.
01:44And I think there was much more important things
01:46in her life, having a baby.
01:48And that was good, actually.
01:50She took care of the baby.
01:52I wished her well.
01:54And 104 over here, which will be the last question.
01:57To your right over here, AR.
01:58To your right.
01:59Congratulations tonight.
02:00Nice score.
02:01Were you at all worried about being up
02:04against industry veterans like James Newton
02:06Howard and Danny Elfman?
02:07And had you known about their music, studied their music,
02:10known much about it?
02:11Did you think at all you'd ever be
02:12able to kind of crack into this industry at all?
02:18I think music appeals when the film and music go together.
02:23And of course, they had lovely scores in the movies.
02:27And I had very low expectations when I came for the Oscars.
02:30But I'm really happy that they voted for me
02:32and grateful for that.
02:34Congratulations.
02:35Congratulations, and thank you.