Oscar winning lyricist Gulzar rejoices

Mumbai, Feb 23 (ANI): Oscar winning lyricist Gulzar, who shares the 'Original Song' award with Bollywood composer, AR Rehman on Monday, said he would love to work with the maestro again.

"It was good to work with him. He is a great composer and I would love to work with him again," Gulzar said.

Bollywood's A.R. Rehman won Oscars for original score and original song in Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire", becoming the first Indian composer to strike gold at the annual Hollywood awards.

Rahman won the Oscar for his score 'Jai Ho' in "Slumdog Millionaire" and he shared the original song award with Gulzar.

"Slumdog," which tells of a young man looking for love and competing for money on the Indian version of the television game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire".

It also earned Oscars for Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography as the world's top film honours got under way.

The awards bagged by the film are - best Motion Picture of the Year award, Danny Boyle (best director award), A R Rahman and Gulzar (Original Song 'Jai Ho'), Rahman (best score), Resul Pookutty (Sound Mixing), Anthony Dod Mantle (best Cinematography), Simon Beaufoy (Adapted Screenplay), Chris Dickens (Film Editing). (ANI)