{"id":1338,"date":"2009-02-25T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2009-02-25T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T07:01:53","slug":"what-does-jai-ho-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"What does &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221; mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I thoroughly enjoyed viewing the feel-good movie &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221;  [see my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsS.html#SM\">here<\/a>] and my wife surprised me on Valentine&#8217;s Day by giving me the soundtrack CD of the movie.<br \/>\nThe final song is called &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221; and is played during an exuberant dance sequence at the end of the film and in fact on Sunday it won the Academy Award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar.com\/nominees\/?pn=detail&#038;nominee=Jai%20Ho%20-%20Slumdog%20Millionaire%20-%20Music%20Song%20Nominee\">Best Song<\/a>. You can listen to a sound clip of the song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jai-Ho\/dp\/B001NB5BVI\">here<\/a> and see the text of the lyrics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/jai-ho-lyrics-ar-rahman.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nBut what does &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221; mean (I&#8217;ve seen various suggestions) and what is the song all about? Can a Hindi-speaking reader of NightHawk illuminate us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I thoroughly enjoyed viewing the feel-good movie &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221; [see my review here] and my wife surprised me on Valentine&#8217;s Day by giving me the soundtrack CD of the movie. The final song is called &#8220;Jai Ho&#8221; and is played during an exuberant dance sequence at the end of the film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}