If “when man bites dog” is how news is still defined, A.R. Rahman getting another prestigious honour for “Slumdog Millionaire” should no longer make headlines.

A double win at the Oscars. Strike that. A double win at the Grammy!

The highest honour any musician can get! And double that.

It was a strong sense of déjà vu for his team and fans around the country. Rahman said: “It’s insane.” And went on to add: “God is great” yet again, since he is really running out of acceptance speech templates.

Rahman had more to add through his updates on Twitter:

“Insane, eh? I never even dreamt of winning all these awards… I once again want to thank the Almighty, my spiritual Sufi teachers, Ameen Peerullah Malik Sahib, Danny Boyle, Fox and the whole Slumdog creative team, all the awesome actors in the movie, MIA and Resul Pookutty… My whole team, Gulzarji, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Vijay Prakash, my friend and sound engineer the late H Sridhar, Deepak PA, Chetan, Vivianne 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 mentors Mani Ratnam, Shekhar Kapur and Subhash Ghai, and mentor in the West, Andrew Lloyd Webber, folks at IDPR, Allison and Courtney, 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… Jai Ho India!”

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