ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
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... "God is great." Thank you.
ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY
Including his two nominations this year for Original Song for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, this
is the third Academy Award nomination for A.R. Rahman.
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