Its an extremely good news for the Indians. Slumdog Millionaire has won 8 Oscar awards this time.
Though its a British film but it has an Indian connection to it. The technicians , musicians etc etc are Indians. Three Indians headed by AR Rahman have won Oscars. This makes the occasion even special for the Indians.

AR Rahman finally got the award and recognition that he deserves the most. Probably the western world listened to his music for the first time other wise he would have and should have got Oscars much before. He has given even better music in most of his Indian films like Rang de basanti , Roja etc etc. Now he is the only Indian to win two Oscars.

Gulzar also got one award along with AR Rahman for the best origninal score(for the song JAI HO) . Though he gives all the credit to Rahman , he too desrves this award. He has been lyrist in numerous Hindi songs.

And at last but not the least .. Resul Pookutty won an Oscar for best sound mixing. Another Inidan making us proud ....As he rightly said -"History has been handed over to him".

Though there was some controversy on the film highlighting the slums of India , but it has done more good things for the Indians than Bad things. The Indian technicians , musicians etc will get more recognition in the west now.

Failed to perform in the JU tech fest...

I and two of my friends participated in the Jadavpur University Tech fest in the C-Thru event. On the first day we had prelims. It was an online exam. All mcq questions. We some how managed to qualify for the finals though our performance was not up to the mark.

Next day we had the finals.It was a 4 hour exam on programming on real life problems. We did extremely poor there. Could solve only one out of eight problems. Pathetic performance . Quite naturally we didnt even manage to come in the top 6. My friends were really upset because they manage to win everytime thet take part. For me though it was nothing new...:-)..

But we did have some fun there.....A nice experience.