AR Rahman's song set for the Oscars

Indian music maestro A.R Rahman's song Tamil "Na Na" from the film "Couples Retreat" has been nominated in Original Song category for the 82nd Academy Awards, that will be held on March 7th in Hollywood, California

This song will be competing with 62 songs from other nominated feature-length motion pictures .The final nominations will be announced on Feb 2.

"Na Na" is written by double Oscar winner A.R Rahman along with Blaaze and Vivian Chaix.Its is a very special song for AR Rehman as this is his son Alim’s debut song.Also, this is the first time Rahman has composed music for a Hollywood film.

"Couples Retreat" is directed by Emmy nominated Peter Billingsley and stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman and Kristin Davis. The story revolves around four couples who go to a tropical-island resort for a vacation.

Acceptance Speeches at the oscars this year

Danny Boyle(SlumDog Millionaire)-Best director

"My kids are too young to remember this, but I swore that if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, so that's what that was about. Thanks everyone at Warner Brothers for passing on to Fox Searchlight. Just to say to Mumbai - unending, unseparable, unborn - all of you who helped us make the film and all of you who didn't, thank you so much. You dwarf even the sky."


Kate Winslet (The Reader)-Best actress winner

"I'd be lying if I hadn't made a version of this speech before. I must have been eight-years-old, and this [holds up statue] was a shampoo bottle. Well it's not a shampoo bottle now. I'd like to thank my family who are in this room somewhere. Dad, whistle so I know where you are. I'd like to thank my fellow nominees. These goddesses. Thank you so very much. I think we all can't believe we are in the same category as Meryl Streep at all."


A R Rahman(Slumdog Millionaire)-Best song:

"All my life I've had a choice of hate or love, I chose love and I'm here. God Bless"


Penelope Cruz(Vicky Cristina Barcelona)-Best supporting actress:

"It's not going to be 45 seconds, I can tell you that [and it certainly wasn't]. Has anyone ever fainted, because I might be the first one? I can not talk about great characters without mentioning my friend Pedro Almodovar. I want to dedicate this to my parents and friends..."

A.R Rehman

A.R Rehman(Allah Rakha Rehman) known as the Mozart of Madras became the first Indian to won 2 Oscar awards.He was awarded 2 oscars for Original Score and Best Song for "Jai Ho" of "SlumDog Millionaire" at the recently held Oscar Awards Ceremony.He delivered a touching speech while receiving the Oscar Award - "All my life, I have had a choice of love and hate. I chose love and I am here." He is India’s finest music maestro and most of his compositions reflect a fusion of east and west .A.R Rehman has won 4 National Film Awards,Malaysian National Award, Mauritius National Award, Malaysian National Award,honorary award from Stanford University for contributions to global music including the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards.

Rehman began his career as a jingle composer in the year 1987. He has composed jingles for ads of brands like Parry's,Asian Paints,Airtel,Titan,Airtel etc.With 5 years in the field of advertising he composed around 300 jingles.In the year 1989, Rehman started his own music recording and mixing studio Panchathan Record Inn in the backyard of his house.This small studio has now become one of India's most well equipped and advanced recording studios.In the year 1992,he got his major career break with the Tamil film "Roja" which made him immensely popular. He received the Indian National Award for the Best Music Composer for this movie, the first time ever by a debutant.From then on he has composed brilliant music for the Indian film Industry.

He was born to K. Shekhar and Kasturi (alias Kareema Begum) in the year January 6,1966 in Chennai (Madras),India.He is married to Saira banu and has 3 children - Khatija, Rahima and Amin.