Jai Ho You Are My Destiny – A. R. Rahman and The Pussycat Dolls
“Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)” is a song by American girl group the Pussycat Dolls from their second album, Doll Domination 2.0. Written by Evan Bogart, Ester Dean, Ron Fair, Gulzar, E. Nuri, D. Quinones, A.R. Rahman, Nicole Scherzinger and Tanvi Shah. It was released as the third single in Europe (fourth in Oceania, United Kingdom and North America). The song is the English-language interpretation of the song “Jai Ho”. These lyrics do not translate directly from the Hindi lyrics.
It was a considerable hit, reaching number one in Australia, Finland, Ireland, Lebanon and Turkey. It also reached the top three in Belgium, France, New Zealand and United Kingdom. In United States it peaked at number fifteen. The music video was shot in Vienna, Austria at a Tramway Museum, recreating the last scene from the movie Slumdog Millionaire . The English-language version of the song was sung by various voice actors of British children’s shows during the 2009 Children in Need Promotional dance video. It was also sung in The Official BBC Children in Need Medley.
In 2009 Ron Fair and Jimmy Iovine wanted to make “Jai Ho!” a pop record keeping the original melody. After contacting A. R. Rahman, they asked Scherzinger, to re-write and make her own version of the song. On an interview in DesiHits, Nicole revealed that she didn’t want to cover “Jai Ho” saying that, I was scared to death to touch it [and] afraid for people to hear it before I even wrote it.” She later explained on MTV that,
“It’s crazy how the whole thing came about, I’m a writer, and I’ve been fortunate enough to write for the Dolls, but when they asked me to look at the movie and do my own version, I was really afraid to take on the task of rewriting the lyrics, because I thought the movie was so profound, I didn’t know how to make sure I kept the integrity of the movie and the love story, but also make it cool enough for the Pussycat Dolls and for people all over the world to connect to.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Ho!_(You_Are_My_Destiny)
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