A. R.Rahman won two oscars

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Rahman won the awards for the Best Original Song for ‘Jai Ho… .’ and the Best Original Score.

This is the first time that an Indian is walking away with two Oscars and also this is the first time that two Indians are receiving Oscars in the same year. Resul Pookutty has received an award for the best sound mixing.

He dedicated his Oscars to his “loving” mother Kareema Begum.

Rahman is yet to sleep as he arrived in the wee hours of February 25. "Nothing like this has ever happened to me," he says with a chuckle. "There were 6,000 people at the airpor