Tuesday, February 24, 2009

எல்லா புகழும் இறைவனுக்கே!

A.R.Rahman in his acceptance speech said "எல்லா புகழும் இறைவனுக்கே".. which means, all fame and glory is to the God ! Very difficult to think on these lines at such a great award function ! Salaam ARR...

Before coming, I was excited and terrified. The last time I felt like that was during my marriage. There's a dialogue from a Hindi film called "Mere paas ma hai," which means "I have nothing but I have a mother," so mother's here, her blessings are there with me. I am grateful for her to have come all the way. And I want to thank the Academy for being so kind, all the jury members. I want to thank Sam Schwartz, I/D PR, all the crew of Slumdog, Mr Gulzar, Raqueeb Alam, Blaaze, my musicians in Chennai and Mumbai. And I want to tell something in Tamil, which says, which I normally say after every award which is எல்லா புகழும் இறைவனுக்கே... "God is great." Thank you.

1 comment:

Salil said...

Salaam ARR, of course.
As you might know, I have been an ARR fan for the last 15 years or so.
But let us not forget Rasool at this moment. I felt very proud when he said 'I come from a country that gave the world Om' in his acceptance speech.
Cheers,
Salil