Was it Stephen Devassy at the keyboard? Niven
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, live for arr Live <livefor...@...> wrote: > > friends, > > Had a great time watching the ARR show at Calicut. It was one of the > breathtaking crowd ever seen. Calicut had its day when ARR blessed them on > May 3rd. Sure, it was a day to remember for us Calicut people. > > Now coming to the details of the concert, I would like to mention the Plus'es > & Minus'es which I had felt. I am not critising ARR or his fans. This is > just my opinion, so please dont create a controversy here. I also LOVE ARR as > much you all do. Thanks.. > > Pluses - > > a) Great crowd, Great visual presentation accompanying each song. > b) Hariharan and Chitra's singing were almost perfect, and they were the real > stars of the day. > c) Padakaali was a great surprise for all Mallus. It was great singing by > george/benny. > d) Post interval, the concert's momentum picked up and it was rocking till > the end. Most fast numbers > were performed post interval. > e) Humma Humma, with the Carnatic beginning was astounding. > f) Same with Ey Hairathe Aashique. > g) ARR's fathers song which he dedicated. > h) Sanjeev on the Crane and Mustafa after that. It was the highest point of > the concert. The entire crowd with their mobile lights on was just > a visual treat to watch. > i) Khwaja was again a mere bliss to watch and hear. Azeem/Rukumani/Veerapandi > was a rocker. > > Minuses - > > a) Why was ARR not handling the Keyboard? It was so frustrating to see > Stephen handling it and ARR was just as a mere singer. > People who have put their hard earned money had to come to watch ARR and > not Stephen. This was very disappointing. > b) The concert was delayed by 40 mins which led to the downfall of momentum > which had got built very high at 7 PM. > c) Pre interval - the Songs/performances were very average and some people > left between 8 and 9 PM. > d) Where was the String section? What was the drummer doing? Was he just > hitting the drums without knowing which song was playing? > I felt he was a MERE SPECTATOR like us. > e) Sivamani was heavily missed. Because his presence would have mad the > concert more interesting and his 20 minute individual performance > would have been great. > f) Most of the songs had Karoake (i.e. the background track). Only the voices > were Original. All background music in the songs were ditto from the CD. > i.e it was not played LIVE. > g) Naveen didn't have much to show his skills. We all know how much he is > talented. > h) Sadhana Sargam was given 2-3 songs and she was wasted. > i) Only 2 Singers who are widely popular performed in this concert?? > Hariharan and Chitra. Rest all are from ARR's immediate gang. i.e. who have > become popular in the last 2-3 years. Where are the other singers? like SPB, > Srinivas, Naresh, Sujatha, Shreya, Karthik, Sukhwinder etc. > j) In some songs, only 1 Charanam was performed. > k) Opening song and ARR's intro was not great and it didn't capture the > audience as expected. > l) ARR's singing was out-of-pitch at times. > m) Hari and Sadhana having a single mike to sing Roja Janeman. I thought it > was amateurish. > n) At lots of places, lyrics were forgotten, some one was talking on the Mike > when the song was going on. It wasn't professional. > > friends, I am repeating that these are my thoughts and please dont take it as > a offence. I just expected more from this concert. When compared > to his previous Chennai, Delhi concerts, this was a letdown. >
