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Year: 2008 (81st) Academy Awards
Category: Music (Original Score)
Film Title: Slumdog Millionaire
Winner: A.R. Rahman
Presenter: Zac Efron, Alicia Keys
Date & Venue: February 22, 2009; Kodak Theatre
A.R. RAHMAN:
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: Ella puhazhum iraivanukke. "God is great." Thank you.
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[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
A.R. Rahman Academy Awards Acceptance Speech
