London: Adding yet another feather in his cap, music maestro Allah Rakha Rahman on Sunday bagged the BAFTA Award in the best music score category for Slumdog Millionaire at a gala event in London.
After becoming the first Indian to win the Golden Globe and getting a triple Oscar nomination in two categories for the same movie, Rahman, 43, is the first Indian musician to win the BAFTA Award.
Apart from Rahman, Resul Pookutty was the other Indian to win a BAFTA Award for Best Sound editing for Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman's composition Jai Ho for British director Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, earned him the Critics Choice Award for Best Composer in 2008 and the Golden Globe in the category of Best Original Score.
Rahman, born in Chennai on January 6, 1966, has been nominated in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories for two of his compositions -- Jai Ho and O Saya at the Oscar.
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