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I know it might be a bit much to say Slumdog's a "Great Movie" in a music blog post title because I am not a film critic (yet). But last night I got into a long conversation with Lindsay about it and she agrees, so I'm just gonna say it's the Best Movie and you should see it ASAP. I made a forced reference to the Danny Boyle-directed heartwarmer when talking about Sigur Rós and how "Hoppípolla" is in the film trailer, but that was before I realized Maya's got a new song called "O Saya," with soundtrack composer A.R. Rahman, that turns up in the film. MTV praises Rahman's work on the OST for "mixing the disparate worlds of Bollywood and hip hop," which is true, but as you'll hear it's a more integrated and creative fusion than previous Hindi-hop exercises. Here's "O Saya":
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