Re: [arr] Spirit of Unity Concert
Thanks Raam, got it!
Re: [arr] Dedicate A Song To Rahman For His Birthday
hi Frens, i would like to Dedicate the song Vande mataram to Rahman anna. its not only me, but a bunch of my frens would like to dedicate it. here is their names Kumareshan (me), Nava, Maran, Vasu, Vicky, Tinase, Zubair, Vicknes, Ziauddeen OMG y the list is keep on going. i couldnt mention all the names of ma frens. its too long. the reason of dedicating this song is: 1) this is the best ever patriotic song we ever heard. all the teenagers here get the spirit of nationality from this song. 2) the vocal. do i need to tell bout the vocal. hehe... 3) when he sing the line Thaaye un peyar sollum bothe ithayathil min aalai payuthe, ini varum kalam ilanyarin kaalam, yen kadal melisai paduthe thats the moment rise the spirit. Kumar AR Rahman DJs Thulasi Ram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fanaa from AE/yuva On 1/6/07, tanyaagha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:First of all, Happy Birthday again sir. And now, I'm asking other fans in this group to pick a song and dedicate it to him. It doesn't have to be by him but make sure you state why you want to dedicate this particular song. Just a fun thought. I'll start. I would like to dedicate Anbe Aaruyire to Rahman sahab. Why? I think his music has been my best friend for a very long time and will always be. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] my musical tribute to ARR sir
hello friends, here is my tribute to arr on his bdayy http://crusadertvm.blogspot.com/ waiting 4 ur comments
[arr] A note on a pilgrimage
Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he then handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, 'Don't you want a picture?'. I joked, 'I would like you to say a few words or else all the folks would think I made off with the money'. He laughed and agreed. I told him I could wait till the studio was a little quieter. He said fine and went on to have a private conversation with Shankar and then moved away to supervise some dubbing work for Guru that was underway at the studio. Before he left, I mustered the courage to ask him if there was any way I could get another look at Pray For Me Brother, to which his reaction was, 'Of course, why even ask?' and asked Abdul from the studio to screen it for me in one of the smaller rooms. I was waiting around the studio for a while when a Jaya TV crew trudged in for a sound bite. Soon thereafter he came down and shot with them. Then he turned to me and asked, 'Can we shoot now?' And thus was marked another momentous occasion in the history of this fan community. I don't think I can ever thank all of you out there enough for having given me the privilege of undergoing this experience. I sincerely
Re: [arr] Screen Awards - Mixed bag for ARR
i am absolutely shocked. whats happening? i agree that omkara is good not better than rang de basanti. on his birthday this would have been a good gift. wat a poor award selection. hope he would get the others that would follow like national, filmfare , stardust etc etc. --- vinodraju2k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Won Best Background Music for RDB. Lost Best Music to Vishal Bharadwaj (Omkara) Vinod __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] Inside Man
Inside Man DVDs and VCDs are now available in India from Saregama.
[arr] Re: My Collection Of A R Rahman's Mp3 Ringtones
Hey Arun, If you still have all the 55 A R Rahman sir's Mp3 ringtones, can you please upload them on yousendit or some other website. I've tried to access the zip file you've uploaded earlier but the link's no more active. Thank you once again! Have a Good Day Regards, Krishna --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, arun culas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I've a collection of A R Rahman's Ringtones.Felt to share it with you all. 55 A R Rahman Mp3 Ringtones 1.Airtel Song Edited(Good Quality) 2.Airtel Song Complete(Good Quality) 3.Anbe Aaruyire(Anbe Aaruyire) 4.Azaadi(Bose The Forgotten Hero) 5.Bol Sajni(Doli Saja Ke Rekhna) 6.Bol Sajni Ver2(Doli Saja Ke Rekhna) 7.Bolo Kaun Ho Tum(Kabhi Naa Kabhi) 8.Glass Break(Yuva) 9.Chaiyya Chaiyya(Bombay Dreams) 10.Gurus Of Peace(Vande Mataram) 11.Daud(Daud) 12.Dheem Ta Na(Rhythm) 13.Dil Se(Dil Se) 14.Fanah(Yuva) 15.Ga Ma Pa(Bombay) 16.Gopala Gopala Flute Bit(Humse He Muqabla/Kadhalan) 17.Habibi(Tehzeeb) 18.Hey Machan(Sillunu Oru Kaadhal) 19.Hoo La La(Sapnay/Minsara Kanavu) 20.Hum Hain Is Pal(Kisna) 21.Inqualab Zindabad(The Legend Of Bhagat Singh) 22.Ishq Bina Rahman Bit(Taal) 23.Jiya Jale Malayalam Bit(Dil Se) 24.Kadhal Rojave/Roja Janeman Flute Bit(ROja) 25.Kalayil Dhinamum(New) 26.Kalluri Saalai(Kadhal Desam) 27.Karisil Tharisil(Tajmahal) 28.Khalbali(RDB) 29.Khamosh Raat(Thakshak) 30.Khoyee Khoyee(Tehzeeb) 31.Kismat Se Tum(Pukar) 32.Kokku Saiva Kokku Flute Bit(Muthu) 33.Ek Ladki/Margazhi Poove Opening Flute(Love You Hamesha/May Madham) 34.Mumbe Va(Sillunu Oru Kaadhal) 35.Nachley(Lakeer) 36.Nahin Samne(Taal) 37.Narumugaiye(Iruvar) 38.Newyork(Sillunu Oru Kaadhal) 39.Ni Sa Ri Sa(Bombay Dreams) 40.Oh Sa Ni Sa(Bombay Bgm Bit) 41.O Yuva Yuva Piece From Dhakka Laga Bukka(Yuva) 42.Pathsala(RDB) 43.Pal Pal Hai Bhari(Swades) 44.Pyar Ye(Rangeela) 45.Roobaroo(RDB) 46.Saathiya Flute Bit(Saathiya) 47.Tanha Tanha(Rangeela) 48.Dil Hai Sanam/Thee Thee Flute Bit(Chor Chor/Thiruda Thiruda) 49.Tu Hi Re Flute Bit(Bombay) 50.Tu Hi Tu Closing Lines(Dil Se) 51.Vellai Pookkal Flute Bit(Kannathil Muthamittal) 52.Vellai Pookkal(Kannathil Muthamittal) 53.Wedding Qawwali(Bombay Dreams) 54.Yelelo Humming Chotti Si Asha/Chinna Chinna Aasai(Roja) 55.Yun Hi(Swades) Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/3148184/A_R_RAHMAN.zip Password for unzipping the files arrahman Take care, Arun Culas __ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/
[arr] Re:A note on a pilgrimage
I think this write-up of Gopal's summarises the group's seriousness in our love for Rahman. A one and a half lakh plus of money is certainly no joke. And like Gopal said, we stood up when it mattered. And if there's anything else that we can do WE ARE ALWAYS READY. Right everybody?!! Thanks Gopal for handing over the cheque in-person. That's the kind of passion you as a leader of this group can show, then it only increases our faith in doing more for Rahman everytime. Also, Gopal, you have shown immense care in handling all the money and putting it across in the best fashion that could have been done. Kudos to you and for the noble initiative that you have taken! Really proud to be an A R Rahman fan! Love, Adi.
Re: [arr] Exclusive: Guru Tamil track list
Badly missed Hariharan for Ye Manburu Mangaiye... Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.Nan Nare Shreya Ghosal, Uday Mazumdar 2.Aaruyire A.R.Rahman, Chinmayee, Quadir, Murtuza 3.Jodi Jodi S.P.Balasubramaniam, Chitra And Chorus 4.Mayya Mayya Chinmayee, Mariyam Toller, Keerthi 5.Ye Manburu Mangaiye Srinivas, Sujatha, A.R.Rahman And Aslam 6.Paisa Paisa Karthik, Madhushree 7.Ore Kana A.R.Rahman, Chitra, Madras Chorale Group Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [arr] A note on a pilgrimage
Dear Gops, That was straight from the heart. The one person that deserved to hand over the cheque and go through this surreal experience was you. Congrats on getting another opportunity to be in the company of the man who inspires us to be a better human being. God bless him and his family. Regards, Sunil On 1/7/07, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he then handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, 'Don't you want a picture?'. I joked, 'I would like you to say a few words or else all the folks would think I made off with the money'. He laughed and agreed. I told him I could wait till the studio was a little quieter. He said fine and went on to have a private conversation with Shankar and then moved away to supervise some dubbing work for Guru that was underway at the studio. Before he left, I mustered the courage to ask him if there was any way I could get another look at Pray For Me Brother, to which his reaction was, 'Of course, why even ask?' and asked Abdul from the studio to screen it for me in one of the smaller rooms. I was waiting around the studio for a while when a Jaya TV crew trudged in for a sound bite. Soon
Re: [arr] Exclusive pics from ARR's birthday
Gopal, you have got the wrong date in the cheque. you have written 06.01.2006 (rather it should have been 2007) Sorry to point out even though I didn't contribute to your efforts... as I, like you... put more time, money and effort towards my old Alma Mater (my old college).. Rgds, Mirza. --- Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479723/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479715/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479719/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479711/ I have some more photos, but in the interests of ARR's privacy, I refrain from posting it on a public forum. I would be happy to show them in person. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [arr] Exclusive pics from ARR's birthday
Mirza, You are spot-on... I guess all that nervous excitement got to me. I noticed the error this morning and a fresh cheque is already on its way to ARR and he has been informed of the mistake. Thanks, Gopal. --- Mirza G. Munas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gopal, you have got the wrong date in the cheque. you have written 06.01.2006 (rather it should have been 2007) Sorry to point out even though I didn't contribute to your efforts... as I, like you... put more time, money and effort towards my old Alma Mater (my old college).. Rgds, Mirza. --- Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479723/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479715/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479719/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479711/ I have some more photos, but in the interests of ARR's privacy, I refrain from posting it on a public forum. I would be happy to show them in person. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[arr] Re: A note on a pilgrimage
Awesome!! that was really beautiful. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he then handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, 'Don't you want a picture?'. I joked, 'I would like you to say a few words or else all the folks would think I made off with the money'. He laughed and agreed. I told him I could wait till the studio was a little quieter. He said fine and went on to have a private conversation with Shankar and then moved away to supervise some dubbing work for Guru that was underway at the studio. Before he left, I mustered the courage to ask him if there was any way I could get another look at Pray For Me Brother, to which his reaction was, 'Of course, why even ask?' and asked Abdul from the studio to screen it for me in one of the smaller rooms. I was waiting around the studio for a while when a Jaya TV crew trudged in for a sound bite. Soon thereafter he came down and shot with them. Then he turned to me and asked, 'Can we shoot now?' And thus was marked another momentous occasion in the history of this fan community. I
Re :Re: [arr] Dedicate A Song To Rahman For His Birthday
hai ,my heartiest wishes to the nbsp;\guru\.may u achieve more milestones in ur lifetime.a small request please concentrate more on BGM\'s and we are expecting more from u.hope u will create magic in BGM\'s like the big guru \Ilayaraja\.I want to dedicate \Kaatril enthan geetham\ from the movie \Johny\ which is most favourite and also ilayaraja\'s.all the best rahmannbsp; and happy pongal to all my friends.bye,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotehi Frens, i would like to Dedicate the song Vande mataram to Rahman anna. its not only me, but a bunch of my frens would like to dedicate it. here is their names Kumareshan (me), Nava, Maran, Vasu, Vicky, Tinase, Zubair, Vicknes, Ziauddeen OMG y the list is keep on going. i couldnt mention all the names of ma frens. its too long. nbsp; the reason of dedicating this song is: nbsp; 1) this is the best ever patriotic song we ever heard. all the teenagers here get the spirit of nationality from this song. nbsp; 2) the vocal. do i need to tell bout the vocal. hehe... nbsp; 3) when he sing the line \Thaaye un peyar sollum bothe ithayathil min aalai payuthe, ini varum kalam ilanyarin kaalam, yen kadal melisai paduthe\ thats the moment rise the spirit. nbsp; nbsp; Kumar AR Rahman DJs nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;Thulasi Ram lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: fanaa from AE/yuva On 1/6/07, tanyaagha lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: First of all, Happy Birthday again sir. And now, I\'m asking other fans in this group to pick a song anddedicate it to him. It doesn\'t have to be by him but make sure you state why you want to dedicate this particular song. Just a fun thought. I\'ll start.I would like to dedicate Anbe Aaruyire to Rahman sahab.Why? I think his music has been my best friend for a very long time and will always be. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] Thanks Giving to Gopal !!
Dear Gopal !! At the outset I would like to thank you wholeheartedly on behalf of all the members of this noble community. Achieving an amount of 1,60,000 within few days is not an easy task, but it all happened well with your maximum effort and uninterrupted reply and concern. It’s not about how much we are contributing, but it’s all about why and what for we are contributing. This single event alone shows how much we trust and Love A.R.Rahman sir. Anyways this is not goanna be the last time, there are plenty of opportunities where by we can show our gratitude to our boss. I earnestly request and pray that we all should be united and stand together as always and help and support the poor and needy along with Rahman Sir. A whole lot of thanks and appreciation to Gopal !! We salute your sincerity !! Last but not least I would like to thank all the members of this group who donated generously and also thank those who thought of donating but couldn’t make it due to various reasons. Thanks a lot!! I am proud to be a part of this foundation. From now on stop using yahoo fan group, instead mention “The A.R.Rahman Fans Foundation”. (Personal Opinion) Long Live Rahman Sir, may his music bring joy and peace to this entire world !! Love you all !! Deepak __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] Re: Exclusive: Guru Tamil track list
-Hey! Thanks for that, does anybody knows when will be the audio realese??? Vinoth -- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.Nan Nare Shreya Ghosal, Uday Mazumdar 2.Aaruyire A.R.Rahman, Chinmayee, Quadir, Murtuza 3.Jodi Jodi S.P.Balasubramaniam, Chitra And Chorus 4.Mayya Mayya Chinmayee, Mariyam Toller, Keerthi 5.Ye Manburu Mangaiye Srinivas, Sujatha, A.R.Rahman And Aslam 6.Paisa Paisa Karthik, Madhushree 7.Ore Kana A.R.Rahman, Chitra, Madras Chorale Group
Re :[arr] my musical tribute to ARR sir
very nice praveen,but kindly note himesh is also a gr8 fan of rahman and dont critice him in ur next mail as he also tributes his success to thr almighty like arr.ur mail on meeting and getting autograph is also good,but where u met him,do let us [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotehello friends,here is my tribute to arr on his bdayyhttp://crusadertvm.blogspot.com/waiting 4 ur comments
Re :[arr] A note on a pilgrimage
hai gopal,happy new yr to you.so nice of u taking an initiative to support the foundation and also congrats to allnbsp; our group members for their contribution.we are very eager to see the video taken with him,can u upload it if possible and any other intresting news when u met our \Guru\ apartnbsp; from the long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wroteDear friends,When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR\'s birthday, Ihad only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only bycourier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was onlyfair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning notknowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence ofhis simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know,all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay\'s entreaties, I had the good fortuneof being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify.Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the sameaffection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the keypersonalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busyworkers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir,I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front ofhis home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr.Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executivesfrom WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. Icould see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit andDeepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City weresome names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR\'s right handmen Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance.We were soon joined by ARR\'s mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family.I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home andstudio. ARR still hadn\'t turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we wereushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir,Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio,were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For MeBrother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions thatpassed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performancestruly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indianclassical harmony accompanying a rap segment?Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day,cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special \'Spiderman\' shaped cake, ARRdecided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-)Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed andeveryone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. Iwish I could say, \'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!\' But ARR instead sprang a surpriseon me! He looked visibly moved and said \'I have been telling these folks what you guys havebeen doing.\' I went, \Huh?\ And his response was, \'I was on the group last night and saw allthese messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now\'. Iquickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. hethen handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, \'Don\'t you want a picture?\'. I joked, \'I would like you to say a few words orelse all the folks would think I made off with the money\'. He laughed and agreed. I told him Icould wait till the studio was a little quieter. He said fine and went on to have a privateconversation with Shankar and then moved away to supervise some dubbing work for Guru that wasunderway at the studio.Before he left, I mustered the courage to ask him if there was any way I could get another lookat Pray For Me Brother, to which his reaction was, \'Of course, why even ask?\' and asked Abdulfrom the studio to screen it for me in one of the smaller rooms. I was waiting around the studio for a while when a Jaya TV crew trudged in for a sound bite.Soon
[arr] Thanks Giving to Vijay Iyer !!
Sorry guys forgot to mention Vijay's name. Thanx 2 Mr. Vijay !! Plz forgive me . . . __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [arr] List of 5.1 Audios released
list of a.r.rahman tracks in 5.1 boys sillunu oru kadhaal varaluru i know only these 3 tracks but i don'no if any other a.r.rahman tracks is relesed --- Prudhvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I recently purchased a 5.1 Home Theatre System from Sony. I tried a lot to get some 5.1 Audios of ARR but failed to get even one. The only soundtrack that is available in Hyderabad in 5.1 format is that of Dhoom II. Please help me out by giving the following details: 1. What all Soundtracks of ARR are released in 5.1 format 2. Where can I find those in Hyderabad. Thanks and Regards, Prudhvi Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [arr] A note on a pilgrimage
Thanx a million for this initiative...we feel we have contributed in some way to ARR his dedication thru all these years! It cudnt hv been better...u translated our emotions wishes thru this cause. Hats off!!! N finally, thanx for sharing the wonderful pilgrimage experience..it only reinforces multiplies our love,faith,affection trust 2wards him. ARR...u r truly worth evertything in this world. We feel blessed... Long live ARR n his community swaps Sunil VG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gops, That was straight from the heart. The one person that deserved to hand over the cheque and go through this surreal experience was you. Congrats on getting another opportunity to be in the company of the man who inspires us to be a better human being. God bless him and his family. Regards, Sunil On 1/7/07, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he then handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, 'Don't you want a picture?'. I joked, 'I would like you to say a few words or else all the folks would think I made off with the money'. He
Re: [arr] Exclusive pics from ARR's birthday
Gops, atleast you had the strength to take all those in... if it was me attending his birthday.. guess what... I would have forgotten the cheque in excitement... :-) Thats how stupid I was when I got his signature on the Bombay Dreams CD Cover (sleeve) than the CD itself. Oh and congratulations on that tremendous effort of collections... --- Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirza, You are spot-on... I guess all that nervous excitement got to me. I noticed the error this morning and a fresh cheque is already on its way to ARR and he has been informed of the mistake. Thanks, Gopal. --- Mirza G. Munas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gopal, you have got the wrong date in the cheque. you have written 06.01.2006 (rather it should have been 2007) Sorry to point out even though I didn't contribute to your efforts... as I, like you... put more time, money and effort towards my old Alma Mater (my old college).. Rgds, Mirza. --- Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479723/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479715/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479719/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348479711/ I have some more photos, but in the interests of ARR's privacy, I refrain from posting it on a public forum. I would be happy to show them in person. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[arr] Chaiyya credits in Inside Man
For those who haven't seen the movie, here is a screenshot of the credits for Chaiyya Chaiyya from Inside Man: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arrahmanfans/348965937/
[arr] Let us continue with such positive efforts
Dear Gopal (and Vijay), Thank you guys once again for this positive initiative. It gives immense pleasure and sense of satisfaction, being part of this wonderful group and to do our bit for a good cause. Please continue with your sincere and excellent efforts and I am fully convined that with such a strong and like minded group, we can achieve much more... for eg. - support in organizing concerts to raise funds for ARR foundation - starting up joint share holding professional institutions, dedicated to Music and Arts and contribute on regular basis to ARR foundation - etc Best wishes Ganesh --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he then handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, 'Don't you want a picture?'. I joked, 'I would like you to say a few words or else all the folks would think I made off with the money'. He laughed and agreed. I told him I could wait till the studio was a little quieter. He said fine and went on to have a private conversation with Shankar and then moved away to
Re: [arr] List of 5.1 Audios released
FYI Sillunu Oru Kadhal never release as DTS 5.1 Cd.. A.R Rahman 5.1 DTS (Retail) only have following title :- 1.Boys 2.Varalaru @ Godfather *Sorry if i'm wrong Arvind d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: list of a.r.rahman tracks in 5.1 boys sillunu oru kadhaal varaluru i know only these 3 tracks but i don'no if any other a.r.rahman tracks is relesed --- Prudhvi wrote: Dear All, I recently purchased a 5.1 Home Theatre System from Sony. I tried a lot to get some 5.1 Audios of ARR but failed to get even one. The only soundtrack that is available in Hyderabad in 5.1 format is that of Dhoom II. Please help me out by giving the following details: 1. What all Soundtracks of ARR are released in 5.1 format 2. Where can I find those in Hyderabad. Thanks and Regards, Prudhvi Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [arr] Watch NDTV 24/7 Friday 8:30pm for song of the year
The award was only for The song of the Year. No other awards were given. Love ARR Raghu - Original Message - From: Shwetha Signs To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [arr] Watch NDTV 24/7 Friday 8:30pm for song of the year hi sorry to ask what r other category nominees and winners in both cnn-ibn awards and ndtv awards like lyricist, background score, male singers, female singers etc. i m late here. thanks for ur replies. rgds shwetha.
[arr] Bharat's Guru poster still doing the rounds :-)
From today's Hindustan Times http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Web/HTMumbai/Article/2007/01/07/540/07_01_2007_540_008.jpg
[arr] Music with a cause
Music with a cause The Capital made most of the season with a dose of charity as a mobile phone giant teamed up with a composer to launch a fundraiser; even as a bridal extravaganza and a felicitation for a noted sports personality kept the city otherwise occupied. Mumbai partied at its own pace as yet another actor launched his signature label of clothing (From top): John Abraham and Hema Malini; father-son duo Milkha Singh (right) and Chiranjeev Milkha Singh; A.R. Rahman at the Nokia do; Divya Gurwara (second from left), CEO, Bridal Asia with models What do you get when an ace musician teams up with a giant mobile company? You get a great music video on your mobile phone and in all probability its music with a cause. Last week, A.R. Rahman and Nokia Nseries launched an English music video that the composer has put together exclusively for the mobile brand. Shot on the mobile cinemascope format by Bharatbala of Vande Mataram fame and penned by BlaaZe, Pray for Me, Brother unveils a fund-raising campaign spearheaded by the A. R. Rahman Foundation and Nokia. The attempt will be to raise funds for the underprivileged. To support the cause, Nokia Nseries and A.R. Rahman are also poised to unveil a website, www.prayformebrother.com, where those interested in donating can log on. The music video will be available soon on Nokia Nseries phones before being released for television, said Vineet Taneja, director, multimedia, Nokia India. The video will be preloaded on the N91, N70 and N73 phones. Rahman looked pleased as punch as he talked about the video. It took us two years to bring it to life. While I was working on it, I didnt realise that it would go so far. We thought that the song deserved a great album and Nokia came forward to fund it and also to make it available on its music phones, said Rahman. The song was originally composed as an anti-poverty anthem for the UNs Millennium Development Goals. The video, thats shot in New York, shows the contrast between the Big Apple skyscrapers and men who look minuscule against the towering buildings. The attempt is to reiterate the sharp distinction between the riches and the poverty that exists around the world. Pray for Me Brother will be the worlds first ever music video on vertical cinemascope to be put on music edition devices. Its another add-on for our customers, Taneja added. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070106/asp/weekend/story_7199497.asp
Re: [arr] Screen Awards - Mixed bag for ARR
We shouldn't worry about the awards: the Hindi awards functions in our country are (sadly) a joke 99% of the time, and I feel Aamir Khan has the right idea when he does not attend... On 1/7/07, merson ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am absolutely shocked. whats happening? i agree that omkara is good not better than rang de basanti. on his birthday this would have been a good gift. wat a poor award selection. hope he would get the others that would follow like national, filmfare , stardust etc etc. --- vinodraju2k [EMAIL PROTECTED] rajv_2k%40rediffmail.com wrote: Won Best Background Music for RDB. Lost Best Music to Vishal Bharadwaj (Omkara) Vinod __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] Re: The Official Website
To reiterate what Vijay has stated, please go all out to publicize the fact that ARR will soon have his own official website, through your blogs, posts on other forums, word of mouth etc. We also value your feedback on the website, it will be given serious thought and consideration. Please feel to comment on all aspects - features, content, navigation, user interface and so on. The website will go live in a phased manner. Please note that the overall design concept is in harmony with ARR's personal beliefs and preferences, as it rightfully should be given that this will be HIS website. Therefore, while commenting on this aspect please attempt to constructively enhance the same rather than suggesting an entirely different approach. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Vijay Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, This is a desire driven by all of us culminating into reality. We take great pride in letting you know that the official website for a r rahman - www.arrahman.com is ready however since we would like to soak in the spirit of the new year with his birthday and the wonderful gesture shown by fans worldwide by contributing to the a r rahman foundation, we thought it was only fitting that we 'go live' with the website shortly so as to not dilute the focus and importance. For the moment, you may log onto www.arrahmanworld.net What you get as fans through this is a first and exclusive look at what's coming your way... the music, the mystery and the man unravelled like never before. Remember, this is just a teaserthe full fledged website will be launched by a r r himself shortly.the official website domain is www.arrahman.com and the domain currently being used www.arrahmanworld.net will be migrated. To start off with, you can post your messages directly on the website which will be read by a r r. You can also register for updates on emails. Obviously, what is expected of you is to go full fledged and spread this on as many forums and to as many people as possible. Remember, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the first and exclusive audience for this. Thanks for all your love support Vijay Iyer Gopal Srinivasan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] Tamil Audio CDs in Mumbai
Hi guys, can anyone tell me where can i get Tamil Audio CDs of ARR in Mumbai? it would be better if i get 5.1 CDs. I tried Giri, Matunga but they dont have so need your help. Thanks Vivek. Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php
[arr] Happy Birthday Guru
Happy Birthday Guru (This post was written one year ago on the same day, for its the birthday of The Boss, AR RAHMAN. It is only apt that the Boss is now changed to Guru) HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOSS A lone boat on the sun kissed waters, makes the ripples ripple a ripple more. When all of lifes oh-nos, whys, some-other-days come to a halt and celebrate life. A smile that refuses to leave the aching face, makes you wonder whether it is worth caring and thinking all that and all those we think and ponder about all the time. For no one goes home with you except the reason you smiled today. Water that flows without the fear of losing ground, like it will always keep falling like the way it does, it will not tear the heart of the earth or spoil the clothes. Water in which I saw all the colors of life, untainted by anything that could taint water- its music, its melody and its integrity and purity. I want to get up and jump like no one is looking, keep making circles on the sand with my index finger till the wave washes it away, the circles keep getting deeper without the fear of an impending loss of identity, may be identity for them meant blending in a bigger, more real reality There is more than images and visual imagination that Rahmans music generates, it is a world indescribable in words, something that can be felt like having a chocolate ice-cream or the first kiss. I have followed his music since I was 13, and it has been a constant presence in my life ever since. All these years, Rahman music movies and songs have been knitted in my memories of school days, friends, girls, movies and my frequent relocations. Every song every note is etched like a brass impression, bringing back times in their exact color and sound. When I hear a Rangeela, I remember the day I bought the tape from hard-saved money, got it home, played it aloud on my 32 watts Philips tape, drew the curtains and started dancing like crazy. People said it was different but I got what I had ordered, every month I used to wait for the next Rahman release, drove all the music shops in town crazy by calling them umpteen times. The movies have changed, people have changed, the scene is different but my association with his music remains the same, innocent and independent of what the world thinks or says. I still run to grab that first copy of his tapes in town, still cant do anything before I listen to the tape at least two or three times, and pass my pre-decided verdict that it is vintage Rahman, period. May he live on and on and keep creating the magic over and over, so that one day when I am 98, I will tell ultracool kids of the future, this tape of Bombay that you see, is the first tape that I bought way back in the summer of 1994, it cost Rs 28 then, and it meant Magic for me then, it means Magic for me now. http://passionforcinema.com/happy-birthday-guru/
[arr] Bloggers wish ARR
http://justjots.blogspot.com/2007/01/ar-rahman-birthday-music-memories.html http://riyazny.wordpress.com/2007/01/07/ar-rahman%E2%80%99s-birthday/ http://in2mind.blogspot.com/2007/01/happy-birthday-arrahman.html http://sammstein.blogspot.com/2007/01/just-listen.html
Re: [arr] Screen Awards - Mixed bag for ARR
I will have to agree with music award. in fact Omkara is a great album. I am not comparing RDB and Omkara. while RDB attracted the youth, Omkara is loved by the matured. so there is nothing wrong in giving it to Vishal Bharadwaj but the funny part of the award is giving best Actor award to Hrithik roshan for his performance in the world's worst movie i have ever seen.. Krish! that was a real joke.. I didn't know flexing muscles and dancing can be regarded as acting.. well, its not a matter to discuss here though.. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Mast Qalandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We shouldn't worry about the awards: the Hindi awards functions in our country are (sadly) a joke 99% of the time, and I feel Aamir Khan has the right idea when he does not attend... On 1/7/07, merson ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am absolutely shocked. whats happening? i agree that omkara is good not better than rang de basanti. on his birthday this would have been a good gift. wat a poor award selection. hope he would get the others that would follow like national, filmfare , stardust etc etc. --- vinodraju2k [EMAIL PROTECTED] rajv_2k%40rediffmail.com wrote: Won Best Background Music for RDB. Lost Best Music to Vishal Bharadwaj (Omkara) Vinod __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] Bloggers' review Guru 27
http://life-easier.blogspot.com/2007/01/music-review-guru-rehman-spins-his.html
Re: [arr] List of 5.1 Audios released
Hai Mahen! I think U r correct. but I couldnt ensure God Father, because here in Sri lanka I got only Boys earlier,then God Fathers two [original KM music's] various Audio CDs only I was able to get.Still not the DTS one.If it give me some details; Im Interest to buy it here :Thanks: M.Mahen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI Sillunu Oru Kadhal never release as DTS 5.1 Cd.. A.R Rahman 5.1 DTS (Retail) only have following title :- 1.Boys 2.Varalaru @ Godfather *Sorry if i'm wrong Arvind d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: list of a.r.rahman tracks in 5.1 boys sillunu oru kadhaal varaluru i know only these 3 tracks but i don'no if any other a.r.rahman tracks is relesed --- Prudhvi wrote: Dear All, I recently purchased a 5.1 Home Theatre System from Sony. I tried a lot to get some 5.1 Audios of ARR but failed to get even one. The only soundtrack that is available in Hyderabad in 5.1 format is that of Dhoom II. Please help me out by giving the following details: 1. What all Soundtracks of ARR are released in 5.1 format 2. Where can I find those in Hyderabad. Thanks and Regards, Prudhvi Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[arr] Rahman in Saarang 2007 ???
Check this out : read the last statement http://www.saarang.org/07/Pro-Shows/This+Year Pro Shows 2007 Global Rhythms Global Rhythms has been in the news lately with several collaborative exercises with AR Rahman, most recently at the Hollywood Bowl in July 2006. Global Rhythms is a combination of traditional and non-traditional music from all over the world. A concept conceived by Miami Alumnus Srinivas Krishnan in close collaboration with Pamela Fox, Pat Hernly and Jason Koontz in the year 1996, the project aims to integrate sounds from all over the world and create music that utilizes an eclectic blend of Middle Eastern, Caribbean, Indian, African, Brazilian, Latin, Australian, and Western instrumentation and their team has been invited as a result to Cornell, MIT, Harvard, Dartmouth, the Vatican, Hollywood Bowl to name a few. There are over 140 members within Global Rhythms today and what makes them unique is their ability to embrace every kind of music within their repertoire. This ensemble has performed in concert with over 50 guest artists from all over the world including Grammy winners Horacio Hernandez, Eguie Castrillo, and Glen Velez, mridangam vidwan Sri Umayalpuram Sivaraman from India, and over a year ago, they combined with Ghatam Karthick, Embar Kannan, Poongulam Subramaniam and Mandolin U.P. Raju (part of Heartbeat Ensemble). Global Rhythms benefits from the experiences of music professors Ethan Sperry and Roger Davis, its co-directors. Davis' experiences lie in the bass guitar and musical arrangements while Sperry specializes in vocals. The talent these instructors possess echoes in the unique and beautiful sound Global Rhythms plays for its audiences. But what makes Global Rhythms so unique is that they can give a whole one hour show focusing entirely on percussion or an hour show focusing on voice (they have a 100 piece choir). Earlier in August 2006, the US Consulate had honored AR Rahman and Srinivas Krishnan for their collaborative work through Global Rhythms over four years. Rahman's contribution is significant because it has allowed for the members of Global Rhythms to adventure and explore every kind of music and each show with Rahman has opened new doors for over 350 members of Global Rhythms over the four years. On January 25, 2007, IIT MADRAS will feature Global Rhythms that will feature a total of 18 artists who will present a whole range of music, catering to the needs of an Indian Audience. The concert will highlight percussion instruments and will aim at sowing a new seed of world music in Chennai. Five of the band members including Patrick Hernly, Jeff Queen, TJ Hartman and James Sparling were recently featured live in concert with AR Rahman and Sivamani in Mumbai over New Years Eve and their skills in a range of percussion traditions will certainly make for an attractive concert more so because they are now combining with some of the best artists from India that evening including Ghatam Karthick's team. The oboe, saxophone and the flute that are woodwind instruments will also be integral to the show and feature Carrie Hernly, Leigh Ann Woodard and Seetha Shivaswamy. Cleve Johnson who is a scholar in Carnatic Music will also be part of this team on the keyboard and a dance trio team of Suzanne Maier, Melissa Jungles and Tami Robinson will be part of a class act that will end the show that evening with music of Chennai's very own AR Rahman. -- best regrards Logesh A
[arr] Re: A note on a pilgrimage- Sound Quality???
Gopal.. If its a privilage for you to share moments with ARR, its a privilage for us to read your experience. However one thing i wd like to know is.. as you have witnessed ARR studio, just wonderfing how good is the sound quality in it? How do you compare it with the best sound systems yu have seen before. Are we really missing any ARRs genius sound work by regular sound systems? Thanks Raghu --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Sunil VG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gops, That was straight from the heart. The one person that deserved to hand over the cheque and go through this surreal experience was you. Congrats on getting another opportunity to be in the company of the man who inspires us to be a better human being. God bless him and his family. Regards, Sunil On 1/7/07, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he then handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, 'Don't you want a picture?'. I joked, 'I would like you to say a few words or
[arr] Air-Tel Ring Tones
Hi friends, I'm desperately looking for the Air-Tel and other A R Rahman sir's ringtones. I would really appreciate if someone can help me :) Thank You, Krishna
[arr] Article on Karen David in Mumbai's DNA Daily Newspaper
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1072243 Anyone who hasn¹t seen the Video for ³Alive² yet the link is http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6451303424366463701q=karen+david The movie Provoked is released on 23 Feb worldwide - in 7 languages. The track ³Alive² will be released shortly on i-tunes through Solid Air Music. Rgds, Mirza. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [arr] Re: The Official Website
Following is a post I made regarding the an official website on 13th November, 2005. Re: [arr] ARR fans deserve respect from Music Companies !! Its wired but just soon after reading your mail I realised a similar post that I made on this group never made it. I don't know why. I am mailing a copy of this mail to you.. just in case if it doesn't get posted online... I made almost similar suggestions.. but not to get the respect from music companies but to be recognised that ARR has fans all over the world.. who are not born an Indian nor they speak Tamil I think he could stand high with an official website... if that.. all the rumours about tax problems... the now-on, no-off projects like WATER.. and the unheard BOSE... all the problems including the demand of BGM of any movie can brought to a stop... Imagine if we can buy his music online.. so that a fan in Africa doesn't need to find a shop which sells Indian Music... Imagine Pre-Ordering CD's even before the songs are finalised I will definitely order each and every music that ARR releases... I will be glad to leave my Credit Card details at his website that everytime he releases a single, album, Original Sound Track for a movie.. or even a musical that I will be one of those first person to receive it first... if each and every fan of his does this he will have a guaranteed sale (of I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH) even before the songs are released... When I met ARR for the first time and since then it has been the last time at Tower Records, Picadilly Circus in London (at the autograph session of Bombay Dreams)... I never had the opportunity of mentioning this to ARR... cause for the very first time I was surrounded with cameras and I was left speechless next time I meet him I will definitely will try mentioning that to ARR... as I am in the Web industry I know what kind of potential that it could bring to his career... Regards, Mirza from London --- Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To reiterate what Vijay has stated, please go all out to publicize the fact that ARR will soon have his own official website, through your blogs, posts on other forums, word of mouth etc. We also value your feedback on the website, it will be given serious thought and consideration. Please feel to comment on all aspects - features, content, navigation, user interface and so on. The website will go live in a phased manner. Please note that the overall design concept is in harmony with ARR's personal beliefs and preferences, as it rightfully should be given that this will be HIS website. Therefore, while commenting on this aspect please attempt to constructively enhance the same rather than suggesting an entirely different approach. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Vijay Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, This is a desire driven by all of us culminating into reality. We take great pride in letting you know that the official website for a r rahman - www.arrahman.com is ready however since we would like to soak in the spirit of the new year with his birthday and the wonderful gesture shown by fans worldwide by contributing to the a r rahman foundation, we thought it was only fitting that we 'go live' with the website shortly so as to not dilute the focus and importance. For the moment, you may log onto www.arrahmanworld.net What you get as fans through this is a first and exclusive look at what's coming your way... the music, the mystery and the man unravelled like never before. Remember, this is just a teaserthe full fledged website will be launched by a r r himself shortly.the official website domain is www.arrahman.com and the domain currently being used www.arrahmanworld.net will be migrated. To start off with, you can post your messages directly on the website which will be read by a r r. You can also register for updates on emails. Obviously, what is expected of you is to go full fledged and spread this on as many forums and to as many people as possible. Remember, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the first and exclusive audience for this. Thanks for all your love support Vijay Iyer Gopal Srinivasan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [arr] A note on a pilgrimage
May god bless Rahman , you and all fans of this group ... I feel great to be a part of such philanthrophic group , I believe music is close to divinity ..that all good happens around it ... Regards Logesh A On 1/7/07, ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx a million for this initiative...we feel we have contributed in some way to ARR his dedication thru all these years! It cudnt hv been better...u translated our emotions wishes thru this cause. Hats off!!! N finally, thanx for sharing the wonderful pilgrimage experience..it only reinforces multiplies our love,faith,affection trust 2wards him. ARR...u r truly worth evertything in this world. We feel blessed... Long live ARR n his community swaps *Sunil VG [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote: Dear Gops, That was straight from the heart. The one person that deserved to hand over the cheque and go through this surreal experience was you. Congrats on getting another opportunity to be in the company of the man who inspires us to be a better human being. God bless him and his family. Regards, Sunil On 1/7/07, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he
[arr] �Guru is about rediscovering life�
Guru is about rediscovering life Screen On Off A.R. RAHMAN tells Pratim D. Gupta why the sky is the limit with Mani Ratnam, why he picked Luka chhupi, Chhan chhan and Khalbali for the Oscars, his UN song, making music with Nelly Furtado and more Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai in Guru What is it about Mani Ratnam that makes you reserve your best for him? I think its the vibe. The vibe is very important when two creative people work together. It is not about egos. It is about working towards the same goal, reaching the same result. Then again, I dont reserve anything special for him (laughs). It so happens. Its how you get inspired by each other. What is the process? How do the two of you approach a film score? Its just that once the film is decided he gives opportunities to come up with ideas. Not just me, whether its the cameraman, the actors, everyone. He pushes the ball in your court and then you go about working on it. Then he comes back when things need to be tweaked around, to be made better. This is very unlike certain other directors, who would say: I want this and I dont want anything else. There you already have the boundaries. Here, with Mani, the sky is the limit. You can think about weird things also and he always wants to do work which is groundbreaking. Its not that you have to work hard or anything. It just comes naturally with him. Yuva, your last work with him, had a very Bengali setting. What about Guru? Its actually more Gujarati. Its more close to Mumbai than anything else. We wanted to do one song like Govinda ala re kind of thing but that didnt fit into the script. So we used that sound and feel in the first song which is Barso re megha megha. Thats where all the big drums came in from. So, it was done for a different song but it fitted into that. Its all Gujarat. So there was no problem. Mayya mayya is on the lines of Hamma hamma and Chaiyya chaiyya. When you create an item number like that do you keep the popularity aspect in mind? In the sub-conscious mind you would want the song to become popular. Thats the whole reason of doing a number like that. People should sing and enjoy. So we put in all into that. For Mayya mayya, I took the hook from a man who was shouting mayya mayya on the road when I was on the road to Haj. The word mayya means water in Arabic and he was selling water. Then later in Mayya mayya we have even added some Gujarati lines because of the characters present in the picturisation. Tere bina is your tribute to the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Yes, when I was doing the soundtrack of Guru, I was listening to Nusratsaabs Sajna tere bina. And I thought there was no such song which had come into Hindi films. You know in terms of the feel. So I thought it would be great to use a song like that in this film. And I even used the same kind of lyrics, Tere bina and it fell into the whole groove in a very different way for the film. But I would say the inspiration was definitely Nusratsaabs music and his style of singing. You didnt know a word of Hindi when you started out. These days, you seem to contribute to the lyrics (Laughs) Its good to work with people who are filled vessels like Gulzarsaab. They are so calm and yet the little, little things they do are fantastic. Tere bina is so simple the way hes written it. Yet it complements the whole setting so beautifully. And he never tries to do something which is great and show the world what he can write. Its all from the heart. Why get someone like Bappi Lahiri to sing the Guru title track? I was at an award function in 2005 and I heard him sing on stage and I found his vocals to be very dynamic. We intended Abhishek (Bachchan) to sing that song in the film but then he was busy. And I had to go abroad when he was free. So Gulzarsaab and I were talking who we can try out and he said why dont you use Bappi for the song. It was a great idea actually. He just came from Calcutta and sang the song in two hours flat. How would you compare the soundtrack of Guru to your last work with Mani Ratnam, Yuva? The music of Guru is about rediscovering life. Yuva was actually more like item numbers, like fillers rather than actually parts of a film. But here it is all bound together, in the way Jaage hai becomes the backbone of the film. Yuva started apologetically ok, we will also have songs. But then here Mani said from the start: Lets have songs in the story. This is more like him. Coming to the song you have done for the United Nations, was Pray for me brother your idea? I made the song first because I have been feeling very strongly about this for quite some time. You know India is really coming up as a country but at the same time you are having these suicides by farmers and there is so much of poverty all around. That inspired me to make this song. Blaaze and I have sung it. Then the United Millennium Development Cause came in.
Re: [arr] A note on a pilgrimage
That was a great account of the day and the events as it unfolded Gops Blessed you are for being graced with the opportunity to spend time with the man - on his birthday. And yes, you are right - its the magic, the divinity of this man and the respect we all have for him that helped us all achieve in such a short period of time what you started . a salute to the members of this group and to the man himself - A R Rahman and lest I forget thanks to you Gops for taking the initiative for the collection drive and also for posting the 'thank you note' from Rahman. -A On 1/7/07, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, When we set out to raise funds for the A.R.Rahman Foundation as a gift for ARR's birthday, I had only planned to send him an image of the cheque by email and the physical cheque only by courier. But when the contributions soared past anything I had hoped for, I felt it was only fair that it be handed over in person. And so, I set out to Chennai on Saturday morning not knowing if I would actually be able to meet him. Though by now, we have seen enough evidence of his simplicity I imagined being stopped by security guards even before I could let him know, all of which was completely unwarranted. Thanks to the never-say-no graciousness of ARR and Vijay's entreaties, I had the good fortune of being your representative at the birthday celebrations of the person whom many of us deify. Far from being met with for a few seconds and summarily dismissed, I was treated with the same affection, care and love by everyone at his home and studio as were many of the key personalities of the industry who made their way to his abode to greet him in person. I made my way to his home with some navigational aid from Vijay to only find a bunch of busy workers setting up the place in preparation for lunch. When I said that I had to meet ARR Sir, I was asked to wait in the first floor of the studio which is the building right in front of his home. I made my way there to find many people doing the same, some of them being Mr. Srinivasa Krishnan of Global Rhythms, Sridhar Subramaniam of Sony BMG, Naresh Iyer, executives from WorldSpace and Saregama and producers from the Tamil industry whom I did not recognize. I could see gifts of flowers from a host of people from the industry - Subhash Ghai, Udit and Deepa Narayan, Rajkumar Santoshi, Bharat and Kanika, Chinmayee, Radio Mirchi, Radio City were some names that I managed to spot amidst the sea of bouquets in the studio. ARR's right hand men Noell James, Sivakumar, Swamidorai, Faiz and H. Sridhar were also in attendance. We were soon joined by ARR's mother, daughters, son, wife and sisters and others in the family. I soon realized that simplicity and humility runs through every brick and body in his home and studio. ARR still hadn't turned up and his mother insisted that we must have lunch and we were ushered back into his home where ARR joined us. Soon director Shankar and family, Kathir, Krishna (of SOK), Praveenkanth made their way in. After lunch we made our back to the studio, were ARR took us to a large studio room on the 2nd floor and screened the video of Pray For Me Brother. I am still searching for words to describe the multiple exhilarating emotions that passed through me as I watched the video. Nothing we have heard so far in the live performances truly captures the brilliance of the recorded song. Who else, but ARR, could have an Indian classical harmony accompanying a rap segment? Following this, both ARR and his son Ameen, who also celebrates his birthday on the same day, cut the cake jointly. While his son wanted to cut his special 'Spiderman' shaped cake, ARR decided his simpler cake was more appropriate :-) Coming to the crux of my visit, it was the time after the birthday cake was distributed and everyone was leisurely seated around the studio that I chose to hand the cheque over to ARR. I wish I could say, 'Did we spring a surprise on ARR or what!' But ARR instead sprang a surprise on me! He looked visibly moved and said 'I have been telling these folks what you guys have been doing.' I went, Huh? And his response was, 'I was on the group last night and saw all these messages about a collection drive. You guys are increasing my responsibilities now'. I quickly assured him that he could count on our support in anything that he wanted to do. he then handed the cheque over to his mother and introduced me to the rest of the people there. He then asked, 'Don't you want a picture?'. I joked, 'I would like you to say a few words or else all the folks would think I made off with the money'. He laughed and agreed. I told him I could wait till the studio was a little quieter. He said fine and went on to have a private conversation with Shankar and then moved away to supervise some dubbing work for Guru that was underway at the studio. Before he left, I mustered the courage to ask him if there was any way I could get
Re: [arr] The icing on the cake: ARR's message to the group -GOOGLE VIDEO LINK
i uploaded the video in youtube (link given below). but as Gopal said, for some reason, only 4 secs is reflected after the upload... i had to do some processing with the avi file and upload it in google video.. result: finally succeeded! link is given below here is the google video link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9068050726598947366 here is the youtube link (but just 4 secs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2E86oTxIdg video description that i gave: ARR, the leading music composer is known for music all over the world. He is kind-hearted and most humble man that a cine industry could see. Having reached the zenith of achievements and accomplishments, he tries to experiment more with his music and also works for the welfare of the people all over the world with his unique power i.e. music.. ARR fans donated a huge sum of money to ARR foundation which has been rooted to alleviate poverty and TB. This video briefs ARR's genorosity to his fans for donating money. Thanks to Gopal Srinivasan (arrahmanfans (yahoo group)) who represented ARR fans and handed over the cheque... enjoy! On 1/7/07, Thulasi Ram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanx a zillion Gopal! hail ARR! On 1/7/07, Gopal Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to post this video clip of ARR addressing us, all of yesterday. It was a 68 MB file and all my efforts at converting it to something smaller were in vain. Yahoo Video and Google Video gave up several times mid way through the upload process. You Tube would take it all in but say the clip was only 4 seconds long. After some struggle I got it uploaded on Veoh but things didn't end there, Veoh wanted 8-12 hours to process the video. To cut a long story short, here is our man himself addressing all of us directly in response to our efforts: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v200760NNBD22j3
[arr] One clarification
Hi all, Was surfing through Raaga website they have listed all his movies at the bottom of the list i saw the name of this movie Yinee ellam sugame starring Sarath kumar what is this movie? r they correct..? luv the Boss Prasanna -- Visit my Blog http://rahmanic.blogspot.com/ -- Search is important than destination--a.r.rehman --
Re: [arr] Screen Awards - Mixed bag for ARR
Totaly agree with Roshan... even our boss mentioned in an award ceremony that Omkara is his personal favourite.. as a fan of A.R Rahman we should also appriciate others composition as other composer look up to our bosss. thanks... On 1/7/07, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will have to agree with music award. in fact Omkara is a great album. I am not comparing RDB and Omkara. while RDB attracted the youth, Omkara is loved by the matured. so there is nothing wrong in giving it to Vishal Bharadwaj but the funny part of the award is giving best Actor award to Hrithik roshan for his performance in the world's worst movie i have ever seen.. Krish! that was a real joke.. I didn't know flexing muscles and dancing can be regarded as acting.. well, its not a matter to discuss here though.. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Mast Qalandar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We shouldn't worry about the awards: the Hindi awards functions in our country are (sadly) a joke 99% of the time, and I feel Aamir Khan has the right idea when he does not attend... On 1/7/07, merson ak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am absolutely shocked. whats happening? i agree that omkara is good not better than rang de basanti. on his birthday this would have been a good gift. wat a poor award selection. hope he would get the others that would follow like national, filmfare , stardust etc etc. --- vinodraju2k [EMAIL PROTECTED] rajv_2k%40rediffmail.com wrote: Won Best Background Music for RDB. Lost Best Music to Vishal Bharadwaj (Omkara) Vinod __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? b Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
[arr] Hai friends
Dear friends iam shalu iam a greatest fan of AR pls send me ar photos intersting mail thank 4 u all wish u happy new year BYE
Re: [arr] List of 5.1 Audios released
sillunu oru kadhaal dts relesed. i have see it in city center in chennai --- Parthipan Ratnasingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai Mahen! I think U r correct. but I couldnt ensure God Father, because here in Sri lanka I got only Boys earlier,then God Fathers two [original KM music's] various Audio CDs only I was able to get.Still not the DTS one.If it give me some details; Im Interest to buy it here :Thanks: M.Mahen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI Sillunu Oru Kadhal never release as DTS 5.1 Cd.. A.R Rahman 5.1 DTS (Retail) only have following title :- 1.Boys 2.Varalaru @ Godfather *Sorry if i'm wrong Arvind d [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: list of a.r.rahman tracks in 5.1 boys sillunu oru kadhaal varaluru i know only these 3 tracks but i don'no if any other a.r.rahman tracks is relesed --- Prudhvi wrote: Dear All, I recently purchased a 5.1 Home Theatre System from Sony. I tried a lot to get some 5.1 Audios of ARR but failed to get even one. The only soundtrack that is available in Hyderabad in 5.1 format is that of Dhoom II. Please help me out by giving the following details: 1. What all Soundtracks of ARR are released in 5.1 format 2. Where can I find those in Hyderabad. Thanks and Regards, Prudhvi Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
