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| Rejected by Ghai, "Jai Ho" won A R Rahman Oscar in Slumbdog Millionaire |
June 9, 2016, NewsCrunch
A R Rahman composed his Oscar winning song ‘Jai Ho’ Subhash Ghai’s 2008 movie Yuvraj, which had Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor and Zayed Khan in the lead.
After Subhash Ghai rejected it, ‘Jai Ho’ was used in Slumbdog Millionaire the same year and went on to find international success, fetching an Oscar.
The song was to be picturised on Zayed Khan, who plays brat in Yuvraj and Ghai thought it was "too subtle and soft” for the character. Ghai, however, liked the song and said the words had a positive prayer-like feel.
Rahman and Gulzar, who wrote the lyrics, believed the song had "immense potential" and they were proved right.
A Wikipediaentry quotes Rahman saying he did not think the song would win him an Oscar though. “But like the film Slumdog suggests, everything has its own destiny," he notes.