A SMALL STATUETTE FOR RAHMAN, A COLOSSAL RECOGNITION FOR INDIAN MUSIC

Not long ago, in one of my previous posts, I had envisioned the scene of an Indian, occupying center stage at the Kodak Theater, holding an Oscar statuette in his hand. Finally that has become a reality, with Rahman winning not one but two oscars for the music he composed in slumdog millionaire. For many young Indians who have turned towards Rahman's unconventional scores to quench their thirst for quality and original (to the best extent possible) music, it is tough not to give a thought or two about what could have happened, if this south indian prodigy had encountered an earlier opportunity to showcase his captivating music on a

INDIAN MOVIES ... NOT QUITE THERE YET

Yet another Indian movie bites the dust at the Oscars. Purists might argue that Water went in as a Canadian movie, but considering the fact that the director is Indian and the star cast is mostly Indian, it might as well have gone in as an Indian nomination. Not that many people were expecting it to win. But the very thought that the Indian film industry has been churning out close to 800 movies a year for the past 50 years and yet no Indian movie has ever won an oscar, is a bit scary. But going by the number of Inidan movies nominated for the Best Foreign Film category in the past, we definitely are making progress. While in the past half