User talk:Leunghl2

Please add this paragraph underneath the heading "Film scoring and soundtracks" after the sentence "Rahman scored...becoming the first Asian to do so". I believed we should draw attention on Rahman's ethnicity being the obstacle of his popularity in the West. The media has not pay any attention to any of his work until his contribution in the British film "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009. No matter how amazing his works are, people like Rahman are seen as the minorities in Hollywood. In order to gain international recognition, they will have to partner with famous film directors or composers from the West.

The 2009 Oscar and Golden Globe awards he received were the turning point of his career. Since the early 1990s, Rahman’s achievements in the world’s music industry are tremendous. His music has been in more than 100 Bollywood films. This Bollywood icon is already considered as the "the Mozart of Madras" in India and has sold more than 100 million albums long before the awards. Although Rahman’s achievement in “Slumdog” is widely celebrated in India, most fans say "Slumdog's" score was far from his best work. Rahman's much better known for his often emotional ballads in Bollywood megahits such as "Roja" in 1992 and "Lagaan" in 2002, and hailed by critics for brooding songs for art house films. However, he has never received any major recognition from the West until he worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber, an English musical theatre director. Rahman contributed in the scoring of Webber’s Bollywood-themed stage musical “Bombay Dreams” in 2002. The spotlight he receives now is greater than ever after his contribution in the British film “Slumdog”. He was on the cover of People and New York Times magazine in 2009. Major broadcasters like BBC, CNN and publishers like Globe and Mail and Reuters all rushed to interview Rahman.

Leunghl2 (talk) 23:40, 14 February 2011 (UTC)