Hello All, This is a brief report of "The Wandering Souls" concert "Rahmania" performed in PUNE on July 26, Saturday evening. The lead organisers were "NU Event Mangagement company" who launched their operations in Pune with our concert.
If you have not checked the photos, kindly have a look at a bunch of 25 photos in our Yahoo group's Photo section ! In this concert, Kedar Bapat replaced Hrishikesh Ranade, except that all the successful performers of TWS showcased their talent. The famous Hindi actor Mr Raza Murad anchored the show admirably and enthralled the audiance with his rich baritone voice and apt sher-o-shairi. The group performed under the able guidance of Anmol Bhave ( National award winner for Best Sound Engineering ) all their hit songs and in this performance, they added "Kabhi Kabhi Aditi from JTYJN" which was performed very well by Ashutosh "JOSH" Joshi. A new voice "Shashwat" from Symbiosis college ( he hails from Jaipur) performed "Tu Hi Re" and 2 other songs and was well received by the audience. Pallavi Paranjape again brought the house down with "Maiyaa Maiyaa" and "Chandralekha- (tamil)". The other successful members of the group consisted of Jasraj Joshi, Swarali Joshi, Swarada Kulkarni, Rachana Phadke, Pinak Agte, Vivek Kodilkar, Pravin Patil, Ajit Velankar, Satyajeet Kelkar, Mr Gaikwad ( on Live Shehnai ), Mandar and Tejas Lagvankar. Incidently Tejas has left today to USA to persue MS in Computer Science. The group's loss could be a big gain for some group in US for next 2 years :-) Support backup was provided by Geetanjali Bhave / Prachi Lagvankar / Nikita and many others. Digital Array sound system was provided by Marzban Irani and it was managed by Nikhil Mulay. CHoreography was managed by a 6 member SHINDE group who came down all the way from NASHIK ! THis was the group's 12'th performance and for next 7-8 months the group is planning to take a break to work on new songs / new performance format and most important, to look after individual careers, because trying to reach close to the "original Rahman Sound" was a mighty challanging task and very demanding job at times. We are also looking at a possibility if other RAHMANIA-like performing groups can come together in nearest future for a BIG event somewhere in India to celebrate RAHMAN's MUSIC ! Let's see...... On behalf of The Wandering Souls, here is a big THANK YOU to all our patrons, well-wishers, audience and all the RAHMANIACS in this group for giving us constant encouragement. Thank you GOPAL and Vijay, our constant supporters, we dedicate this 12'th episode to you ! To our GURU AR Rahman... you are and will always remain our source of inspiration..... We retained the soul of music and gave the best to our audiance...!!!! We will be back soon...... Best regards Dinesh Vaidya On Behalf of The Wandering Souls, PUNE
