Slumdog Millionaire bags eight Academy Awards

This morning most of India woke up early to watch Slumdog Millionaire’s fate unfold. Ultimately, it turned out to be day for “Slumdog Millionaire” at 81st Oscar award ceremony, where the movie based on the plot of Mumbai, surrounded around a slum boy’s tale of rising from rag to riches bagged eight Oscars out of 10 nominated categories.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ won Best Cinematography for Anthony Dod Mantle, Best Writing and Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy , Best Sound for Resul Pookutty, Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, Best editing for Chris Dickens, Best Original Score and Best Original Song for A. R. Rehman. The movie also won the coveted Best Motion picture and Best director for Danny Boyle.

Hopefully these accolades will ensure the postive move of Bollywood from conventional dance-song dramas to world class cinema. Maybe even the quality of performers will improve. The untainted Frieda Pinto presented an award for Best Foreign film with extreme class. Watching A.R. Rehman jamming with Peter Gabriel was surreal and it was obvious that everybody involved with Slumdog couldn’t contain their excitement when the movie won Best picture. Everyone was onstage elated. Congratulations to them all.