Oscars - The Indian Way

Tears rolled down my cheeks while I was watching an Indian musician receiving Oscars. How long did it take? We have been yearning to see an Indian receive an international acclaim in each one of the international events. Bindra made it with his golden gun. Boxers made it at Olympics. One Tagore, one Milkha singh, one Usha, one Vishwanath Anand... few.. very few could make it to the top. It is too little for one billion plus. Vast untapped pool of talent, creativity, huge amount of potential which is worth an applause , accolade is lying here in this Indian soil dusting and rusting. Many remain unexploited, some remain neglected, few crushed to death, very few reach their pinnacle of success. Facing fierce and cut throat competition for very limited opportunities and facilities, many are torn between fame and life struggle to make both ends meet. The story continued for decades, and our generation came to the point of despair that we would never be able to make it. But long overdue miracle has happened to the young India, and to day they are able to brake the barriers. It is truly amazing experience to watch few dancing to an Indian tune in Oscars.Certainly it is not his best number. Yet I am happy, I am happy beyond words.

Many are hoping too many things and I am not too sure about them. But surely it inspired many. Given the back drop of the demarcating line between good cinema and commercial cinema is almost thinning down to the point of blurring in the Indian context, now big producers can venture with an eye on international aura simultaneously with element of commercial purpose. No more dark underbellies please !

What a Pulitzer or Booker is to a writer, what Olympics is to a player,what a Noble is to a scientist , The Oscar is to an artist. Thank you Rahman! You got it for us. What I wrote about you down from my memory achieves did not deviate much from what they fathomed about you in print.. (Thank God!) Your jingles for Titan.. I never knew that it was you. But I knew it from the bottom of my heart that it was a trend setter.But I can't help pointing you on account. Your first acceptance speech was a flop. It was O.K.for Indian audience. But you did not make use of your international podium well. Cheer up boy! Perhaps you have many more such occasions waiting for you.

We are not technically aware of what magic Rasul Pookutty has cast. But what he spoke is truly sensible and has great depth. But we can not think of Rasul without Rahman being coming to lime light. Our technical excellence has too little exposure to an outsider, neither do we have too great infrastructure to put our talent to best use. The kind of fabulous music scores other nominations showcased have to be taken into cognizance while fixing our parameters of excellence. The very prerequisite for an international recognition is absolute impeccable perfection with high technical quality. Nothing short of top class quality can earn you fame in Western medium. At the moment we are not too far away from them. The borders are seemingly not invincible. We made a beginning.