By Rodrigo Perez

Danny Boyle’s crowd-pleasing “Slumdog Millionaire” is taking the indie-movie world by storm, and the kinetic and propulsive film is garnering so much buzz (it was the toast of the Telluride and Toronto film festivals) that there’s talk its slow roll-out plan could hit on a mass level, even with Oscar.

A big part of the reason why is the pulsating and thrilling music by Indian composer A.R. Rahman, who collaborated with Sri Lankan Rapper M.I.A. on the original track, “O… Saya.” The soundtrack CD comes out tomorrow via M.I.A.'s new Interscope imprint N.E.E.T., and it also features M.I.A’s big summer hit, “Paper Planes” that became a hit because of the “Pineapple Express” trailer.

Some of you might think that Boyle jacked ‘Planes’ from the ‘Pineapple’ trailer, but Boyle’s a huge M.I.A fan and the track was a crucial one he had in mind from minute one. “I actually travelled to India with that song with me, it was a key song,” Boyle told MTV News. “And originally it was featured very early on in the film, but then we moved it to the halfway mark, and then the song was used in ‘Pineapple Express’,” he groaned. “What can you do?” Read more...