one small correction . the crowd wasnt 50 K but 1.13 Lakh. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM, iucaa_hari <iucaa_h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I paid 2000 Rs of my hard earned money to watch this show. I am huge AR > Rahman fan and have seen two more of his live shows. > I am used to the substandard level of service that is offered in India. Any > kind of service. We don't have proper facilities anywhere in this country to > hold an event together for any number more than twenty thousand people. For > example Internation Cricket matches played in India. Have you been to any? > No stadium in India can boast of a descent parking facility for ten thousand > cars(now if you have a stadium for 50K people you would need it right?). TO > be able to park conviniently and to take it of and leave easily itself is > not possible. Let alone expect reserved seating, hygienic and versatile top > of the line snacks and toilet facilities. All this for the richest > cricketing body in the world. > > Now coming back to the AR Rahman show, the organisers are purely cashing in > on AR Rahman's market to make money. Rapport Global thinks that if the Stage > and the SOund is good(sound has always had a problem, since the my first > show in 2004) then they are world class. Its just a plug-in-plug-out stage > and organiser needs to understand that stage alone does not determine if the > show is "world class". > > I have a few questions proping up in my mind. > (1) For a Brand like Rahman why do you need to coloborate with MARG to > donate funds for AR Rahman foundation and Sakhti Foundation. > Even if Rahman had done the show directly for Shakthi, the money would have > come. Was collaborating with MARG so essential, taking 50K odd people for a > 12 hour pacakage(total time to travel to-and-fro). > > (2) People pay money for the event that is promised. Not to see MARG > advertising it self to 50K tired people(remember we are told no water > bottles allowed but later everybody seemed to have one and people like me > who adhere to ruled were idiots). When the program was promised to start at > 6:30 PM why dint they start atleast after the MARG PR excercise. From 7:00 > to 7:25 people were sitting like idiots. Tired and Hungry. > > (3) Extremely unproffessional not to have a Anchor for a show of this > magnitude. Imagine 50 K people waiting and there is no show anchor, no > introduction to songs, singers. Shocking. > Most of the Junta dint know that AR was singing Fiqrana or what. Please > organise more professionally. Introduce singers and Pieces. Treat the > audience with respect. > > (4) The way back was another chaos with buses waiting in queque to leave > the areana. The wait was for more than an hour. People sitting on the floor > of the bus and what not. I reached home at 3 AM. Can't See a good reason why > only MARG could do this. > > (5) The barricades dont work!!! I paid for my ticket but I sat or rather > stood with people who dont seem to have paid or many of the people with 300 > hundred rupee tickets landed in this part of the arena. The screens were not > clear at all. > > That for the arrangments, to the music part. This sequence of songs has > already been heard t the Times of India launch in Chennai Last year. The > "Jaage hain" start and move to Khal Bali. Unless you have a fresher approach > what was the need to do the same thing again. If Rahman wants to mix songs > and does not want the language to be barrier that is great. ALthough many > complained about Telugu(was it a dress rehearsal for the Hyd show?) and > Hindi songs being played to a largely tamil audience, am ok as long as they > take you thru the song by introducing it and taking people along. Certainly > not the way it was done. Mr. Rahman has also moved away from the keyboards > to being only a singer on the show. He dint seem as intersted as his earlier > shows. But very kind and generouse himself. Did the backup singing for Maula > when Javed ALi was singing and also wished everyone a safe journey back > home. > > I am just as big a AR Rahman fan as many of you. But dissapointed by the > quality of the show. In online to Rahman if you are listening "respect the > audience". > > If gopal or any other Rahman Army people are listening to this. Try to > change a few things. > > >
