Indian singer Bombay Jayashri won her first Academy Award nomination for writing the lyrics for the lilting 'Pi's Lullaby' in Ang Lee's ship-wreck story 'Life of Pi'. She is competing with five other contenders for the Music (Original Song) category.
The music of 'Pi's Lullaby' is by Mychael Danna and the official page credits Jayashri with the lyrics.
Including his nominations this year for Original Score, this is the second Academy Award nomination for Danna.
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She is competing with five other contenders for the Music (Original Song) category.
The other contenders in the Original Song category are: 'Before My Time' from 'Chasing Ice', J Ralph; 'Everybody Needs a Best Friend' from 'Ted,' Walter Murphy and Seth MacFarlane; 'Skyfall' from 'Skyfall,' Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth and 'Suddenly' from 'Les Miserables,' Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil.
Pi, the son of zookeepers in Pondicherry finds the world he knows swept away when his family sells the zoo and sets sail for Canada with a few of its remaining animals. A storm capsizes the ship and only Pi escapes, set adrift in a lifeboat that is also the refuge of an enormous Bengal tiger.
Life of Pi has been nominated in 11 categories, including Best Picture and Best Director (Ang Lee) and is in neck-and-neck competition with Steven Spielberg's Lincoln with 12 nods.
Jayashri Ramnath, a Carnatic singer, is a well known name in Tamil cinema and has sung a number of songs with composers Ilaiyaraaja, AR Rahman and Yuvan Shankar Raja.
Celebs took to Twitter to express their happiness over Jayashri's achievement:
AR Rahman: Congrats to Bombay Jayashri... First ever Academy Award nomination for a Tamil song.
Shabana Azmi: Congratulations to Bombay Jayashri for her Oscar nomination. She did the playback for a song in 'Morning Raga' and I love her voice.
Shreya Ghoshal: Oscar 2013: Bombay Jayashri gets Oscar nomination for 'Life of Pi' song!! Hearty Congrats!!!
Actor Siddharth: Bombay Jayshri at the Academy Awards! What an amazing honour for a great artist. India has Rahman to thank for all these honours.
Jayshri has also voiced Hindi songs like 'Zara zara' in 'Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein' and 'Chahoon bhi toh' in 'Force'.
'Life of Pi' gets 11 Oscar nominations
Hollywood filmmaker Ang Lee, whose India-centric movie 'Life of Pi' opened to hugely positive response, was nominated in 11 categories for the 85th Academy Awards.
From Chinese film 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to Hollywood masala movie 'Hulk' to 'Brokeback Mountain', Lee has made films on stories set in different time zones and cultures.
"Whatever is interesting, I will do it. Right now I can speak and understand Chinese and English. In 'Life Of Pi', there was some Hindi and Tamil, which I don't follow. But I'll go wherever there's a great story to tell. The specific cultural aspect can be overcome. In fact the process of getting over cultural hurdles makes filmmaking very interesting to me," he had said in an interview.
Life of Pi was nominated in Best Picture, Best Direction, Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Film Editing and Visual Effects categories.
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