It is certainly a matter of pride if ARR has chosen Pune as venue to launch his new initiative and address the media tomorrow. Our best wishes to him ! Pune is home of the talented RAHMANIA team of Anmol Bhave's The Wandering Souls and it would be indeed a privilege to welcome all Rahmaniacs to Pune on 31'st May !!!!
Secondly if Balewadi stadium is the venue for Pune concert, it is TOOOOOOOOOO Far off from city centre. Until and unless you have your own vehicle, it is difficult to access the venue, especially at night after the concert is over. Also to my knowledge, there is no public bus service or auto-rickshaw availability to that venue. I presume, the organisers are aware of Balewadi stadium's logistical issues. And the last point about 10pm deadline for all public events in Maharashtra. The organisers will definitely factor-in this complicated issue during the planning of the concert. They have to start the concert at around 6pm if they have any chance to finish it by 10pm after taking some delays and breaks into account. Sunlight in Pune is quite good till 7 to 715pm so the stage / lighting and special effects will have to get planned accordingly. I think this 10pm deadline does not exist in Kerala, thats how they could conduct rehersals throughout the night and also the actual concert ending at 0030 hrs. Lucky you ! Finally, will the organisers give some chance to the local talent during the concert ? Somehow I doubt that this will happen after reading the feedback of Calicut concert. Jai ho ! Dinesh Vaidya Pune --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@...> wrote: > > Jai Ho World Tour, Pune - AR Rahman to hoist the Jai Ho flag on 8th May, 2009 > > For the first time ever Double Oscar Winner AR Rahman will be > performing live in the city of Pune on Sunday, May, 31, 2009. This > concert is part of AR Rahman's Jai World Tour with over 70 artists and > dancers which includes India's best singers such as Hariharan, > Sadhanaji,BLAAZE, Benny Dayal, Rashid Ali amongst others. > > The concert is also AR Rahman's first concert in a major metropolis > after the Oscars. The Pune concert will be hosted at the sprawling > Balewadi Stadium complex which recently hosted the Youth Commonwealth > Games. > > To announce his arrival in the great city of Pune, AR Rahman will > address the public and media in Pune on Friday, 8th May, 2009 at 5pm > at the MAEERs MIT Campus, Kothrud, Pune. AR Rahman will host the Jai > Ho flag amidst a large gathering and speak to the media about this new > world tour and the Pune concert in particular. > > The proceeds of this concert will go to the Lata Mangeshkar Medical > Foundation and the Alandi Dehu Vikas Parisar Samiti. >
