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TWO SAI DEVOTEES IN THE NOMINATED TEAM FOR OSCAR 2013 .
Prashantinilyam,12th January 2013
Om Sairam dearest Sai Family
It was a great news indeed when the 2013 oscar award nominees were announced on Thursday. The 11 Oscar nominations for the Chinese origin Hollywood film maker Mr.Ang Lee's Film have put the spotlight on India, given that Life of Pi features a variety of Indian talent, plus the fact that it was partly filmed in South India. Life of Pi was nominated in Best Picture, Best Direction, Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Fil Editing and Visual Effects categories.
(Swami felicitating Bombay Jayashree after a concert in the divine presence in 2009)
One of Swami's long time devotee, Indian Classical Singer Jayashree Ramnath popularly known as Bombay Jayashree shares her nomination for the song "Pi's Lullaby" for which she wrote the lyrics in the Tamil Language. Here is the YOUTUBE link for this beautiful lullaby in Tamil
Balvikas Alumni in the nominated team of Oscar awards 2013:
As the Balvikas Alumni meet is on in Prashanthi Nilayam, it is a great news indeed for all the Balvikas students to rejoice the good news of one of their brother's work being nominated for Oscars.
When he recieved a congratulatory message two days ago from the Vice President of Fox entertainment
saying "Take a moment and just be proud of yourself",young Sai Shraavanam could not believe that
Swami's blessing, when He visited his parent's house in Chennai in January 2007 during Ati Rudra
Mahayagna ,would fructify so soon.
Baba had then visited his studio and told him,"You will take Music all over the world".
Sai Shravanam is a member of the "Life of Pi" sound track team that has been nominated for an award in
the 85th Oscar Awards ceremony of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The
soundtracks used in ‘Life of Pi’, now being celebrated for 11 Oscar nominations, had their origins in the
Chennai studio of this young Balvikas graduate.
“After recording Bombay Jayashree's lullaby in September, Fox Music was happy with my work and the
quality of the sound we recorded here. So, I got the opportunity to record far more than what I was
originally roped in for,” says Sai, who has recorded many top artistes in India.
But this was a new experience for him. While the composer Mychael Danna and director Ang Lee were in
Los Angeles, communicating with them as they were recording, Sai , along with the musician, was sitting in
Chennai, “We used this technology called source-connect that enables such remote-recording.
It is like a very advanced variant of Skype, but is rarely used here,” he says.This meant that the sounds
were recorded, just as the director was matching the music to the visuals on his screen in LA. “There is a
small time lag between the moment we press a key here, and the moment when the music is heard in LA and
that required immense precision,” adds Sai.
Sai Shravanam is the son of Mr N.Ramani, National Vice President,Southern Region of the the Sri Sathya
Sai Seva Organisationm (India)
(photo courtesy Brother Nitin Acharya)
No matter what the final outcome would be, let us all pray unison for His glory be sung every where,
for His blessings be poured upon all His children, for the Majesty of Sathya Sai Avatar be spread in nook
and corner of this universe and YES THE WORLD IS IN SAFE HANDS.... IN SAI HANDS....
With Pranams at the Lotus feet of our beloved Lord,
Jai Sai Ram
Satish Naik
