{"id":169,"date":"2009-02-23T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodiouslife.wordpress.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2009-02-23T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T04:40:11","slug":"india-shining-at-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"INDIA shining at the Oscars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 23, 2009 will be a red letter day in the annals of Indian music as the &#8220;Mozart of Madras&#8221; A.R.Rahman bagged the much-coveted Oscar and to top it all, he got two Oscars not just one! Let us not forget the other Indian who made us proud&#8212;Resul Pookutty (he gave an amazing short speech) who won the award for best sound mixing. For me, the ultimate defining moment was at the end when Slumdog Millionaire won the best motion picture award and all the crew of the movie (including the cute kids!) came onto the stage. Many of them were Indians- A.R.Rahman, Resul, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Loveleen Tandon, the child and other young actors.\u00a0 Overall it was an unforgettable Oscars for India as finally our music and our movies are going global!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 23, 2009 will be a red letter day in the annals of Indian music as the &#8220;Mozart of Madras&#8221; A.R.Rahman bagged the much-coveted Oscar and to top it all, he got two Oscars not just one! Let us not forget the other Indian who made us proud&#8212;Resul Pookutty (he gave an amazing short speech)&hellip;<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=169\">More <svg class=\"svg-icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\" focusable=\"false\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30,193,230,254],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-a-r-rahman","tag-oscar-awards","tag-resul-pookutty","tag-slumdog-millionaire","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}