As three songs from the controversial film Dam 999 is currently listed in the competition for the best song category of the year's Oscar's, the only Indian winner in this category A R Rahman says that he is praying for the songs to get honoured in the ceremony. ARR rates the music of film as brilliant and worthy enough to win the awards in the 84th edition of Oscars. Rahman adds that he knows everyone associated with the music department of the film very closely. Hariharan who had sung many of the songs for Rahman texted him about the accomplishment. Moreover, Rahman in his younger days had associated with the music director of the film Ouseppachan, with whom Rahman worked as the keyboard player. Ouseppachan is still known to be invited by Rahman to add additional violin inputs to many of the famous Rahman songs.

Much of the readers will remember that AR Rahman had won two Oscars for Best Original Music Score and Best Original Song at the 81st Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.