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Rahman, on winning the double Grammy,
said that he never dreamt of winning
so many prestigious awards. Those
that feature in his thanking list,
of course, began with the Almighty.
Rahman said, “I once again want
to thank the Almighty, my spiritual
Sufi teachers Ameen Peerullah Malik
Sahib, Danny Boyle, Fox and the whole
Slumdog Millionaire creative team,
all the awesome actors in the movie,
MIA and Resul Pookutty, my whole team,
Gulzaarji, Sukvinder Singh, Tanvi
Shah, Vijay Prakaash; my friend and
sound engineer the late H Sridhar,
Deepak, PA Chetan, Vivvianne Chaix,
Aditya Modi, Sivakumar, Noell James,
Ganesh, Faiz, Anne-Marie, Ranjit Barot
and the folks at Nirvana; my agents
Sam Schwartz and Amos Newman; my friends
Karan, Gopal and Vijay, Deepak Gattani,
Mohan Chopra, Chris and Simon Long;
my mentor Manirathnam, mentors in
Mumbai Shekhar Kapur and Subhash Ghai
and mentor in the West Andrew Lloyd
Webber; Folks at the IDPR, Allison
and Courtney; my 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…” |
