awesome write up....... thats the power of A R R.... it reminds me of my old
times how I grew up listening to A R R magic...
-Suresh
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From: Neetika raina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [arr]My message for ARR
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 2:18 PM
>> as this should be forwarded to ARR himself..... ..
OMG!!!! I am so much thankful to u all for giving so much of love and respect
to my write up. I was afraid of posting these kinda writeups fearing i might
offend someone or wat if someone laughs at my crazyness but thankyou so much
for the appreciation. It has given me confidence to be more loud about my bond
with ARR world...
It gives me immense happiness if someone could see reflection of their own
feelings in this post.
Thanks
~Love Music Love Life
Neetika
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From: "Chord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:30:03 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai,
New Delhi
Subject: Re: [arr]My message for ARR
I feel that something as heartfelt and emotional as this should be
forwarded to ARR himself without revealing his email ID, etc.
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> Wow!!! What a heartfelt write-up, Neetika... gave me goose bumps as
if I'm listening to a beautiful a r r melody.
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> Thank you...
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> Regards,
> Vishwesh.
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> "Â The search is more important than the destination " - a r rahman -
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> --- On Sat, 18/10/08, Neetika raina <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> From: Neetika raina <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> Subject: [arr]My message for ARR
> To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Saturday, 18 October, 2008, 9:55 PM
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> This posting is my story, my journey with ARR..
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> I just wish to tell him once, how much influenced i am by him
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> and how much impact ARR has in every big decision of my Life...
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> I want to thank him with this post.
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> I knw dis post is very lengthy ...sorry for dat!!!!
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> A tiny soul wandering around forests, restless from the remembrance
of previous birth's unpleasant memories. There were a lot of issues
which had to be settled, lots of promises which had to be fulfilled...
Saw a beautiful place surrounded by mountains, fresh air, fresh water,
divine ambience and thought of taking birth to a beautiful and caring
couple and that is how I was born... I was born at the extreme end of
country "India" .There is a beautiful city called as "Jammuâ. Before
I could learn any means of communication, I developed a sense towards
sounds. Sounds which have some special quality in them, which gave
them a pride of being called as "Music"... U can say that I had some
special affinity towards music as the first words which came out of my
mouth were some Punjabi folk song which i used to hear a lot in my
early age. It totally amazed my dad, who nearly jumped seeing his
daughter uttering some words... And after few years, it was the sound
> of Aazan (Namaz) in Ptv which caught my ears. Though I too small to
understand the meaning of religion or religious prayers or even to
understand the words of that divine prayer but i was crazy for that. I
used to fight with my parents to switch Ptv at right time every day.
That caused a reason of worry in my Hindu Brahmin family. A doubt
occurred to them fearing if its some last birth effect or some kind of
influence of Ptv but after few years, all the doubts were cleared...
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> I was nearly 9 years old & watching my favorite show
"Surabhi" on doordarshan. They were talking about a guy "Rahman" who
is very young but has created a rage in music industry and then they
played a Tamil song "Chinna Chinna Aasai" Though the interview with
that guy was in English (that time an alien language for me) but the
lines Chinna Chinna aasai infected my nervous system somehow. Later,
after few months the same Tamil film "Roja" got released in Hindi. I
jumped listening to "Dil hi chota sa". That was the time when a new
phase in my life started. My next encounter with ARR was with the
movie "Bombay". The song"Kuchi Kuchi Rakma" was the pick of my ears.
May b it was the simple "Dholak sound" or the innocent voice of GV
Prakash which caught my kiddy ears(but later found out the complexity
of the song, how Persian sound is fused with folk composition) .Those
days my ears were not matured enough to understand the melody of "Tu
Hi Re..."
> or "Bombay Theme".It was few months later, when i accidently forgot
to press the stop button of my cassette player after the song "Hama
Hama" and the sound of "Tu hi re" filled the room. My heart skipped a
beat, all of a sudden i developed a new emotion. There started a new
journey, suddenly as if i understood the meaning of art. I could
relate pain with the sound of "Bombay theme" and den soon i started to
ignore other songs for these 2 tracks. It really sounds funny now.
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> Then ARR gave his first Hindi album "Rangeela". The
songs became like my morning, afternoon and evening prayers. Within a
week i by hearted the lyrics, tune orchestraization and the mysterious
sounds which ARR always embeds in his songs. The were so many movies
which did not make much sound in bollywood but I was lucky to get a
hand over the cassettes like Priyanka ( Indira), Chor Chor(Thiruda
thiruda),Vishwa Vidhata (Pudhiya Mugham), Kabhi na kabhi. I had no
idea how those songs were getting dissolved in my blood. There was
some other music also which caught my ear like Enigma, sound of
Colonial cousins, Shankar Mahadevan's breathless etc but it was ARR
who became an inseparable part of my life. I was a loner from my
childhood, lost in my own world. I had created a world of ARR around
me. His pictures at the 4 sides of the wall of my room. More than 75
pictures. I used to keep an eye on magazines. Actually one of my
cousins used to get
> cuttings of ARR interviews for me from various magazines. I used to
read about his Tamil music in interviews. Tried a lot but never got
any Tamil album in Jammu. Then, after my 10th standard exam i got an
opportunity to visit Bangalore "My First Trip to South India". There i
bought all the Tamil songs of ARR. There were about 20 cassettes
..Pudhiya Mugham,Gentleman, Muthu,Padayappa, Kadhal Desam,MayMaatham,
Kaaruthamma, Kadhalan, Duet, Indira, Iruvar, Kizhaakku
Cheemayile,Uzhavan. ...etc.They started bringing changes in me.Sitting
on the terrace of my sister's hostel(ie in Chitradurga) ...staring at
the coconut trees (We dnt have coconut trees in jammu), listening to
the songs like Thirakatta, enswasa kartrae . It was a memorable time
of my life. I have no idea, when "Chinna Chinna Asai" took the place
of "Dil hi chota sa" in my heart or u can say that i became addicted
to "Thiruda Thiruda" or "Indira" more than "chor chor" or "Priyanka".
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> I was missing SouthIndia after returning back to my
native.Though I had the cassettes with me but i faced one small
problem. I wanted to know who the singers are and the cover details
were usually written in Tamil. I could easily recognise singers like
SPB,Hariharan, Chitra,Sujatha etc who had sung hindi songs also but
there were many singers who were not known to there in north India. I
loved unni Krishnan,Bombay Jayshree's voice in Iruvar but that time
always wished if someone could read the names for me... And then i got
the solution for that.The movie names were written in both the
languages, Tamil and English. So, I started picking up the alphabets
from there and learnt them and that was the way i started reading and
writing tamil ... yeah, i learnt to read and write tamil words but
noone was there to explain the word's meanings to me . The first word
i learnt to write in tamil was ofcource , the name, ARRahman...
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> Then after my 12th, i got admission in a
college in Bangalore. So the problem to the access to tamil music got
solved but there i came accross people who like barring music in terms
of langauge , regions. They scolded me for listening to Tamil music
while staying in Karnataka. Politians were playing games with the
hearts of people but as the distance between north and south couldnt
keep me away from worshing ARR's music , how could these small talks
stop me? "ARR never stopped creating gems, and i never stopped
decorating my life with those gems. " He always gave me reasons to
smile,dance, cry even gave me inspiration and support. I remember how
much inspired i had been with the song of film Meenakshi "Do Kadam Aur
Sahi". ARR gave me all the emotions and expressions of my life.
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> Then , the day came which i was like a dream for me.
ARR was going to perform live in Bangalore. It was like a dream come
true. But then came the worst part, Tickets were very costly. The
decent crowd ticket was for minimum 3k and i was supposed to buy two
tickets as i had to sponsor the ticket for my friend also. Otherwise
it was impossible for me to attend the concert alone, at night. To
arrange 6k was a big issue for a student...but then my sister helped
me like an angel. She bought the tickets for me and my friend. I
reached the venue 2 hrs before. My heartbeat was impossible to control
I was just dying to see ARR but as God was testing my patience. It
started raining like anything. Even a part of stage broke down. I and
my friend got fully drenched in rain. She asked me if we could return
back but how could i return without seeing ARR??? Then after sometime
the whole crowd roared, and someone shouted, SEE ARR ON STAGE!!!
YEAH!!!!GOSH
> THE MAN HIMSELF..... he was there with usual smile and asking us to
calm down and whatever is the condition, he will play music for us and
he kept his promise. The concert for reduced for 2 and half hrs almost
and in the ending again it started raining badly. When ARR was signing
vandematram the whole crowd went mad. I too was not on earth dat time,
somewhere in air singing (shouting, screaming) with ARR and den he
said thanks for listening and a final goodbye to crowd. After saying
all he stood on the stage staring back at the crowd. He must be
wondering that whatâs making people standing there in that heavy
downpour. I remember him standing there with a smile and then my
friend pulled me to go back. I didnât want to go back. I wanted to
be there but as the rain was getting angry on us, i was pulled back
somehow. But my eyes never left him till we reached the point from
where stage wasnât visible... Wonderful experience.. .
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> It was the end of my Engg days when I came
across a group called Yahoo ARR Fan Group and there I met fellow
Rahmaniacs and found out that my craziness for ARR is not only a
single example in this world. There are lakhs of people . I met
wonderful people there. I got my second family there. I was never this
much happy before, Now i can express my views on ARR and people are
there to understand and enjoy them. Finally i feel as a river which
started from a small place and finally met the Sea. I got a job in
Chandigarh (near my hometown) but it was impossible for me to stay
away from South India. ARR has injected something in my blood. So I
came back.. Well, now the time has come in my life, where I am not
only supposed to admire South Indian culture but also to accept it .
Am little scared but actually happy about it ... Recently I got an
opportunity to be a part of ARR fan's Independence day celebrations
with the kids of an orphanage.
> I never felt so content in my life before. Spending time with those
kids was an unforgettable day of my life. Now just one wish is left in
my heart. If i could see and meet ARR personally. I want to see the
man who has dominated my life for such a long time, who is actually a
part of every big decision i take in my life. I want to see how
different does he look from how i see him in my dreams. I want to
thank him for all the colors he has brought in my life. He doesnât
even know how he has changed the destiny of my life. I wish i could
thank him personally and could tell him, my life wouldnât have been
so beautiful without your music.
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