EAST MEETS WEST- AR RAHMAN AND HANS ZIMMER - 84TH OSCAR AWARDS 2012 - CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
The 84th Oscar awards ( 2012 ) audience "shivered their musical timbers" , when two living legends cum geniuses Indian AR Rehman and German Hans Zimmer joined forces on stage.
Check out the video below ( Sangamam ) yourself- put on your headphones.
This is the 3rd time AR Rahman is performing on the Oscar stage.
In 2009, the Rahman won two golden statuettes for best original score and best original song (Jai ho) for the Hollywood movie Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman is a music composer, singer, songwriter, music producer, musician and multi-instrumentalist . Zimmer is a music composer and producer.
In addition to two Academy Awards, Rahman has won two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards and thirteen Filmfare Awards South in addition to numerous other awards and nominations.
He is called " the Mozart of Madras"--
To be frank he is a greater genius than Mozart or Hans Zimmer as he can sing too, in addition to being astonishing on the keyboard.
In 2009, Time placed Rahman in its list of World's Most Influential People. The UK based World Music magazine Songlines named him one of 'Tomorrow's World Music Icons' in August 2011.
German Hans Florian Zimmer has composed music for several hit Hollywood movies like for The Lion King (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), Gladiator (2000), The Last Samurai (2003), The Dark Knight (2008) and Inception (2010).
He has received four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Classical BRIT Award, and an Academy Award.
He was also named on the list of Top 100 Living Geniuses, published by The Daily Telegraph.
RAHMAN FOR BHARAT RATNA !
RAHMAN FOR BHARAT RATNA !
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
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