A.R. Rahman made Indians across the world proud by his double feat at Oscars. My heartiest Congratulations to him. He is a genius and deserves every award, including the Oscars. Today in the morning, when everybody in my office was talking about the awards last night, one of my non-Indian co-workers asked me what I think of Rahman’s speech after he won the Oscar for best Music. I said to her that I think he gave a decent speech and I asked her why she is asking me that. She said that she found Rahman’s reaction bit strange as he seemed very nervous and sort of ran away from the podium after receiving the award. I tried to explain to her that Rahman is a terribly shy person and infact his response yesterday was much better than what we Indians are used to and expected to see from this reclusive and shy genius.
What you say-and how you behave- at Oscars in those few seconds is remembered by the world for decades. People still vividly remember Marlon Brando joking about the weight of Oscar trophy while receiving his Oscar for “On the waterfront” more than half a century ago or Jack Nicholsan’s humorous dig at Academy members while receiving his Oscar for Cuckoos’s nest more than 30 years ago or Michael Moore blasting George Bush after receiving Oscar for his documentary or Russell Crowe’s very effective and humble speech after receiving his award for Beautiful Mind or who can forget emotional outburst of Halle Barry some years back.
