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Indian music maestro A.R. Rahman, who won two awards at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards

ceremony, says he never dreamt of winning honours of this stature.

“Insane eh? I never even dreamt about winning all these awards,” Rahman posted on his

Twitter page after receiving the award. He was honoured for his compositions in Danny

Boyle’s fairytale drama “Slumdog Millionaire” – he won for the best compilation

soundtrack for a motion picture and the best motion picture song for “Jai ho”, which

he shares with lyricist Gulzar and Tanvi Shah.

The composition in the film has won Rahman the most prestigious international awards

including two Oscars, the aBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA),

Critics Choice Award and the Golden Globe. The singer-composer has thanked a string

of people through the micro-blogging site. “I once again want to thank the Almighty,

my spiritual Sufi teachers – Ameen Peerullah Malik Sahib, Danny Boyle, Fox, the whole

‘Slumdog…’ creative team, all the awesome actors in the movie and Resul Pookutty.

My whole team, Gulzarji, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Vijay Prakash, my friend and

sound engineer the late H. Sridhar….

“My agents Sam Schwartz and Amos Newman, my mentors Mani Ratnam, Shekhar Kapur and

Subhash Ghai, and mentor in the west, Andrew Lloyd Webber, folks at id-PR, Allison

and Courtney… extraordinary musicians from Chennai and Mumbai, my mother, my

father, my sisters and my lovely wife and children… And all my well wishers from

the world who keep me going… Jai ho India!” he posted.

Rahman started his career with director Mani Ratnam’s 1992 Tamil film “Roja” and has

never looked back since.