Rehman is a talented guy. Illayaraja, who first gave a job to Rehman is a greatly talented guy too. Yes, I love love Gulzar's lyrics too. Rehman got an oscar for the song 'Jai Ho' -Is Jai Ho Rehman's best piece of work? I don't think so ! I think that all of his other works are equally good.Many of them are musically richer than 'Jai Ho'. If Jai Ho qualifies for an oscar, I am pretty sure, all his other songs deserve an oscar even more.But, why did only the song 'Jai Ho' get an oscar ? Because , all of his other music was mostly for Indian films and the oscar guys only give awards for English film(yeah they have the foreign film category , but not really a foreign film music award). I am pretty sure many of the jury members never got to listen to his indian movie compositions. If they did , they would give them oscars as well. Btw, Rehman's talent has got nothing to do with his Indianness at all. He is talented.Even if he were African or srilankan, he would have been equally talented. so , whatever !
Anyways, When Rehman went up to recieve his award for the second time in the same evening, he said something beautiful. He said ,
"At every point of my life, I had the choice to choose between love and hate. I chose love everytime and that is why I am here".
Rehman is a nice man.A talented one at that. I have my own objections about why his wife needs to wear a veil on her head even at the red carpet or for that matter at a supermarket in london or every other place that she appears publicly, but hey, that is a whole other issue. I have objections to any culture dictating special dresscodes only to a particular gender. I see the "veil code" as a Gender discrimination issue. NM that at all. We don't want to rake up incovenient topics of discussion , do we? I sure don't want to ,at this give point of time .
What i want to appreciate Rehman here is for his wise words. Sure, a lot of religious extremists must have watched that award ceremony too and truly , this acceptance speech of his might cause them to think twice and probably they might choose love over hate.You never know.Let us all hope for the best.
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