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Music composer A R Rahman has become the first Indian to win the prestigious Golden Globe Award. He won the award for the Best Original Music Score for the movie Slumdog Millionaire.

Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire,” the rags-to-riches story of a poor kid from the slums of Mumbai who becomes a flawless contestant on India’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” also won the Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Motion Picture awards.

From AP:  “We really weren’t expecting to be here in America at all at one point so it’s just amazing to be standing here,” said screenwriter Simon Beaufoy while accepting his Golden Globe Sunday. More:

In The Times of India: The engagingly shy mestro – whose hit numbers for the movie, ‘Jai Ho!’ and ‘Ringa Ringa’ are scorching global charts — has his fingers firmly crossed in the hope that the Oscars in February will be a repeat show. It’s not an unreasonable hope — many Globe winners also pick up Oscars. The movie has won 64 awards so far, a few more from the Academy that matters would certainly be sweet music to Indian ears. More:

Also in The Times of India: There’s a young girl in Chennai who can’t stop jumping with joy. She’s not just a Rahman fan, she’s also sung two songs for his score in the movie. Tanvi has sung Jai Ho and Gangsta Blues for the film. More:

In The Independent, a review of Slumdog Millionaire: There’s also a genuinely disturbing charge of realism in the depiction of the appalling slum conditions that the children grow up in, and the constant menace of severe violence. Effectively Oliver Twist redux, Indian-style, the film is certainly Dickensian in its constant shifts of register, in the way it asks us to take the rough with the smooth, the harshly realist with the sweetly fanciful. More:

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