On 2/6/2009 12:35 PM India Time, _V S Rawat_ wrote: > One of my friends, some 24 year old, visited me yesterday and was using > my pc and playing songs. He happened to put Kisna songs and was playing > them all randomly so he reached put "kisna them [inst]".
Yesterday, this guy visited again and I happen to put "Provoked" songs in winamp without telling him anything about it. Other songs he heard without noticing much, we kept on talking and then "Shillong" started playing and not even 3-4 seconds into it and he literally, physically jumped, got hold of mouse and increased the volume. He commented "soooo catchy." His body was shaking in some dance moves and he was listening to it fully engrossed. He again commented "Rahman?" looking at me. I smiled. He commented "Of course!" and laughed himself, and said "I never heard this one." and kept on listening to it and monkey dancing sitting on the chair. All songs of the movie kept on playing in loop but this is the one that captivated him most. I had noticed that he had recently started putting "A R Rahman" as his fav music personality in his social networking sites profiles. Previously, he was putting only English music personalities' names there. All those have given way to "A R Rahman" now. Yesterday he remarked "if Rahman gets an Oscar, I wish to give him a dinner wherever he says." (hope you guys don't find anything objectionable in his "if" and "he says". This is innocent comment of a young guy.) And his wish has more chance of coming true than many such wishes of mine because the guy is a charmer and does what he sets to do. As an example, he is a friend of Simran Kaur (Miss India Universe 2008) whom he had come to know on his known, he says, while the bombay girl was studying here at Indore and they both were captains of their ladies' and men's basketball teams respectively. He said she had even visited his family and met his parents, so I guess he is not lying. Please read nothing more in it than what is written. I told him "if you manage to give a dinner to ARR, then I will give YOU a dinner." he he he. I am a humble one. Whatever. The point is that our friendship has gone to a deeper level due to ARR's music. He now asks me things about ARR and his music, though otherwise he considers himself to be omniscient. -- I felt sort of sad that several such great works of our man had gone unnoticed due to poor marketing, no advertising when they have the capability to charm people in a few seconds. I wonder whether we fans can find some ways of spreading awareness about our man's such "lost" great work among our friends circle. Please suggest how we can do it. Individually we had been doing it, but I wonder if we could now start doing it coherently as a mission, like - by selecting a "song of the week" among ARR's "unnoticed" songs and play that for ourselves and share with our friends and on net mailing lists, newsgroups, forums, etc. during the week. -- Rawat
