[arr] Still Couples Retreat manages a good position in Box Office
No. 4 was Universal's Couples Retreat, the Vince Vaughn comedy, which lured $5.7 million from 1,596 situations in 18 territories for an overseas cume of $28.8 million. A second-place Germany introduction produced $2.8 million from 338 sites, per the distributor. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3iec91181b3bb41981a9ec03f8524a0e49
[arr] AR Rahman Foundation T shirt pic. [1 Attachment]
Attached is the Rahman T shirt that Vithur is trying to sell. I wore it and sold many during Hyd concert. Good cloth and good feel buy one for you and one for your friend. Remixes I Originals I Opinions http://www.wiredbeats.com
[arr] British rocker Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame will team with Oscar winner A.R. Rahman
Brit rocker Dave Stewart goes Street Dancing Fri Nov 6, 2009 1:24am EST [-] Text [+] By Stuart Kemp LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter)- British rocker Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame will team with Oscar winner A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) to write the score for Street Dancing, an against-all-odds movie set in the world of dance competitions held in Singapore and New York. Cindy Gomez will make her big-screen bow in Dancing. She previously was featured as a singing and dancing avatar in Nokia's cell phone game Dance Fabulous. Music videos and feature director Bille Woodruff will direct from a script penned by David Harris. Ashok Amritraj will produce with funding from Abu Dhabi and Singapore. Stewart shared a Golden Globe with Mick Jagger for co-writing the theme song for the Alfie remake.
[arr] Confirmation required on Ponnar Shankar
According to Wikipedia, an epic movie based on M. Karunanidhi's novel Ponnar Shankar is being made with the same name starring Prashanth in dual roles and directed by his dad Thyagarajan. It states that ARR is doing the music score. Can someone confirm on this? I don't remember anyone in this group discussed about this upcoming movie with ARR score during its launch.
RE: [arr] Official ARR T Shirts for sale in Chennai
Proceeds = money collected my selling Official means = These are Rahman foundation T shirts approved by Rahman Remixes I Originals I Opinions http://www.wiredbeats.com To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com From: dasarabull...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 01:11:16 +0530 Subject: Re: [arr] Official ARR T Shirts for sale in Chennai can you plz tell what is official about it? on what basis? proceeds go to arr foundation -- is that the ground for attesting the t-shirts you are selling as official? also, plz clarify what do you mean by proceeds thanks. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Vithur vith...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Official ARR T Shirts are available for sale in Chennai. The proceeds of the same go to the ARR Foundation. These are at present available for sale only in Chennai. Fan Members from Chennai, who are interested in the same can contact me for the same. ( There are men and women T Shirts available ) -- regards, Vithur
[arr] ADA!
Hey Guys, So ADA is FINALLYYY here it is very very very true that they r releasing the movie on the 18th of DEC 2009...:-D A R RAHMAN has done the background as well.. check out the theatrical trailer of the film and join their FAN CLUB ON FACEBOOK asap and support ARR..!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/ADAa-way-of-life/167707852269?ref=ts http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Movie-Promos/2VuJxn46/3/Theatrical-Trailer-Ada-A-Way-Of-Life.html www.adathemovie.com
RE: [arr] Re: Watched Blue yesterday and. (Rehna Tu was meant for the Delhi city??)
thanks Jahanzeb saab. Perhaps you are right and i did the CD inlay. Now i am thinking. Thanks for the clarity sir... Remixes I Originals I Opinions http://www.wiredbeats.com To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com From: jahanzebti...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:37:06 + Subject: [arr] Re: Watched Blue yesterday and. (Rehna Tu was meant for the Delhi city??) Rehna Tu was not meant to be a love song. It was a track for the city of delhi.. I don't think so. I think it is a misconception among fans. Here is what CD booklet says about it: It's a love song. But not a eulogy. It's about relationship and its irony. About love and accepting your love in entirety. It's a contemporary thought set on a beautiful melody. A hummable song I think it will resonate with the youth in particular. It's one of my favorite songs with AR. http://www.abhishekbachchan.org/gallery/albums/userpics/10003/normal_xdrdelhi600booklet08vo9.jpg Furthermore from the lyrics also it is clear that it is a love song. Rehna tu hai jaise tu, thoda sa dard tu thoda sa sukoon fits more appropriately to a person than a city. and similarly I don't think haath thaam chalna ho to can be directed toward a city but only a human. that is why they showed Rishi and Abhishek driving in the streets of delhi with long shots of city's landmarks. Again I don't think so. first I don't see any landmark except one (first 4 seconds) though could not get which is it, Hamayun's tomb? second, note that only 40 seconds out of 2:10 minutes song is picturized on city streets, the rest 90 seconds is picturized inside the club, on Abhishek and Rishi. also note that CD booklet picture also shows Abhishek and Rishi holding hands. this all could mean that it was actually meant for the relationship of the two. well who knows. but one thing is true, ROM ruined it mercilessly. and since he completely failed to convey anything through his picturization, people were forced to think that it was meant for the city. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ExnS1PbbA - Jahanzeb --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, wiredbeats . wiredbe...@... wrote: Rehna Tu was not meant to be a love song. It was a track for the city of delhi and that is why they showed Rishi and Abhishek driving in the streets of delhi with long shots of city's landmarks. The track is dedicated to the city and says 'stay the way you are...with a little bit of pain and all that... i know they misled in the promos by showing the hero and heroine ..thats for marketting!!! Remixes I Originals I Opinions http://www.wiredbeats.com To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com From: jahanzebti...@... Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:59:55 + Subject: [arr] Re: Watched Blue yesterday and... oh my god i am again reminded how brutally this magnificent song was ruined in move. it was definitely the WORST treatment given to an ARR song ever. ever ever. picturized it on Rishi and Abheshik, in car and in a snooker club. man (ROM) were you out of your mind doing that??? what on earth made you think it will look good. no director in his right senses would do that. that alone tells even talented directors like ROM cannot understand value of ARR song, and that too of a gem song like Rehna Tu, his best in many years. i always imagine how wonderful it would have been had he picturized it on Abhishek and Sonam. i always visualized it that way but he ruined the whole thing. Rehna Tu for me is the darkest period of ARR song picturization. - Jahanzeb --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Rivjot rivjot@ wrote: Rawat, how can you call Rehna Tu 'situation specific' - that song was so forcefully included in that movie and was ironically picturized on AB Rishi Kapoor traveling in a car? During the promos they showed (different) scenes of AB Sonam Kapoor wow! No offense to the song though, it remains one of the best song of this year. --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, V S Rawat vsrawat@ wrote: On 11/3/2009 4:21 PM India Time, _Gopal Anandan_ wrote: 1. poor movie script, screenplay - screws up some good ARR songs. Like in Blue, Yuvvraj, Delhi 6 1. About Delhi 6, whatever be the merits of ROM style of storytelling, but he did give prominence to our man's songs. - Rehna Tu was such a situation specific that it couldn't have been possible to get it made without very close understanding and communication between the film director and the MD. - Arziya was shot on such a vast panoramic scale that it must have required a lot of efforts from director to shoot this brilliant song by our man.
Re: [arr] Confirmation required on Ponnar Shankar
Doubtful... but may happen too... On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:02 AM, ASH askuma...@yahoo.com wrote: According to Wikipedia, an epic movie based on M. Karunanidhi's novel Ponnar Shankar is being made with the same name starring Prashanth in dual roles and directed by his dad Thyagarajan. It states that ARR is doing the music score. Can someone confirm on this? I don't remember anyone in this group discussed about this upcoming movie with ARR score during its launch. -- regards, Vithur
Re: [arr] Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month
Is this the first ARR concert that u are attending ? Do you mean to say ARR doesnt respect the Audience Thats a sin to say like that. Pls refrain from using such words.. You may have to repent later.. There is no artist like ARR. (well, you may be right with certain other points...). In my opinion, the CAR PARK was very fine. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM, iucaa_hari iucaa_h...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I paid 2000 Rs of my hard earned money to watch this show. I am huge AR Rahman fan and have seen two more of his live shows. I am used to the substandard level of service that is offered in India. Any kind of service. We don't have proper facilities anywhere in this country to hold an event together for any number more than twenty thousand people. For example Internation Cricket matches played in India. Have you been to any? No stadium in India can boast of a descent parking facility for ten thousand cars(now if you have a stadium for 50K people you would need it right?). TO be able to park conviniently and to take it of and leave easily itself is not possible. Let alone expect reserved seating, hygienic and versatile top of the line snacks and toilet facilities. All this for the richest cricketing body in the world. Now coming back to the AR Rahman show, the organisers are purely cashing in on AR Rahman's market to make money. Rapport Global thinks that if the Stage and the SOund is good(sound has always had a problem, since the my first show in 2004) then they are world class. Its just a plug-in-plug-out stage and organiser needs to understand that stage alone does not determine if the show is world class. I have a few questions proping up in my mind. (1) For a Brand like Rahman why do you need to coloborate with MARG to donate funds for AR Rahman foundation and Sakhti Foundation. Even if Rahman had done the show directly for Shakthi, the money would have come. Was collaborating with MARG so essential, taking 50K odd people for a 12 hour pacakage(total time to travel to-and-fro). (2) People pay money for the event that is promised. Not to see MARG advertising it self to 50K tired people(remember we are told no water bottles allowed but later everybody seemed to have one and people like me who adhere to ruled were idiots). When the program was promised to start at 6:30 PM why dint they start atleast after the MARG PR excercise. From 7:00 to 7:25 people were sitting like idiots. Tired and Hungry. (3) Extremely unproffessional not to have a Anchor for a show of this magnitude. Imagine 50 K people waiting and there is no show anchor, no introduction to songs, singers. Shocking. Most of the Junta dint know that AR was singing Fiqrana or what. Please organise more professionally. Introduce singers and Pieces. Treat the audience with respect. (4) The way back was another chaos with buses waiting in queque to leave the areana. The wait was for more than an hour. People sitting on the floor of the bus and what not. I reached home at 3 AM. Can't See a good reason why only MARG could do this. (5) The barricades dont work!!! I paid for my ticket but I sat or rather stood with people who dont seem to have paid or many of the people with 300 hundred rupee tickets landed in this part of the arena. The screens were not clear at all. That for the arrangments, to the music part. This sequence of songs has already been heard t the Times of India launch in Chennai Last year. The Jaage hain start and move to Khal Bali. Unless you have a fresher approach what was the need to do the same thing again. If Rahman wants to mix songs and does not want the language to be barrier that is great. ALthough many complained about Telugu(was it a dress rehearsal for the Hyd show?) and Hindi songs being played to a largely tamil audience, am ok as long as they take you thru the song by introducing it and taking people along. Certainly not the way it was done. Mr. Rahman has also moved away from the keyboards to being only a singer on the show. He dint seem as intersted as his earlier shows. But very kind and generouse himself. Did the backup singing for Maula when Javed ALi was singing and also wished everyone a safe journey back home. I am just as big a AR Rahman fan as many of you. But dissapointed by the quality of the show. In online to Rahman if you are listening respect the audience. If gopal or any other Rahman Army people are listening to this. Try to change a few things. -- regards, Vithur
Re: [arr] Audio launch
It hasnt still. On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:49 PM, riyaz_funky riyaz_fu...@yahoo.com wrote: *When did vinnaithandivaruvaya audio release anybody tell plz?* -- regards, Vithur
[arr] Kolkata Love for Rahman
*Kolkata* *Love for Rahman* Off late Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has become an A R Rahman fan. During a recent visit of the composer in Kolkata, Mamata personally called him up and wished him good luck. “I told him that I am a very big fan of his. I welcomed him to Kolkata and said that I will be happy if we could meet,” said Mamata. Rahman, who is scheduled to hold a concert in Kolkata in the upcoming days, may find the Railway Minister as one of his audiences. “I really want to be there when he performs. But provided I could get some time out of my busy schedule,” said Mamata, who was heard saying to his senior party leaders and close aides. http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/kolkata-confidential/539078/ -- regards, Vithur
Re: [arr] Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month
one small correction . the crowd wasnt 50 K but 1.13 Lakh. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM, iucaa_hari iucaa_h...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I paid 2000 Rs of my hard earned money to watch this show. I am huge AR Rahman fan and have seen two more of his live shows. I am used to the substandard level of service that is offered in India. Any kind of service. We don't have proper facilities anywhere in this country to hold an event together for any number more than twenty thousand people. For example Internation Cricket matches played in India. Have you been to any? No stadium in India can boast of a descent parking facility for ten thousand cars(now if you have a stadium for 50K people you would need it right?). TO be able to park conviniently and to take it of and leave easily itself is not possible. Let alone expect reserved seating, hygienic and versatile top of the line snacks and toilet facilities. All this for the richest cricketing body in the world. Now coming back to the AR Rahman show, the organisers are purely cashing in on AR Rahman's market to make money. Rapport Global thinks that if the Stage and the SOund is good(sound has always had a problem, since the my first show in 2004) then they are world class. Its just a plug-in-plug-out stage and organiser needs to understand that stage alone does not determine if the show is world class. I have a few questions proping up in my mind. (1) For a Brand like Rahman why do you need to coloborate with MARG to donate funds for AR Rahman foundation and Sakhti Foundation. Even if Rahman had done the show directly for Shakthi, the money would have come. Was collaborating with MARG so essential, taking 50K odd people for a 12 hour pacakage(total time to travel to-and-fro). (2) People pay money for the event that is promised. Not to see MARG advertising it self to 50K tired people(remember we are told no water bottles allowed but later everybody seemed to have one and people like me who adhere to ruled were idiots). When the program was promised to start at 6:30 PM why dint they start atleast after the MARG PR excercise. From 7:00 to 7:25 people were sitting like idiots. Tired and Hungry. (3) Extremely unproffessional not to have a Anchor for a show of this magnitude. Imagine 50 K people waiting and there is no show anchor, no introduction to songs, singers. Shocking. Most of the Junta dint know that AR was singing Fiqrana or what. Please organise more professionally. Introduce singers and Pieces. Treat the audience with respect. (4) The way back was another chaos with buses waiting in queque to leave the areana. The wait was for more than an hour. People sitting on the floor of the bus and what not. I reached home at 3 AM. Can't See a good reason why only MARG could do this. (5) The barricades dont work!!! I paid for my ticket but I sat or rather stood with people who dont seem to have paid or many of the people with 300 hundred rupee tickets landed in this part of the arena. The screens were not clear at all. That for the arrangments, to the music part. This sequence of songs has already been heard t the Times of India launch in Chennai Last year. The Jaage hain start and move to Khal Bali. Unless you have a fresher approach what was the need to do the same thing again. If Rahman wants to mix songs and does not want the language to be barrier that is great. ALthough many complained about Telugu(was it a dress rehearsal for the Hyd show?) and Hindi songs being played to a largely tamil audience, am ok as long as they take you thru the song by introducing it and taking people along. Certainly not the way it was done. Mr. Rahman has also moved away from the keyboards to being only a singer on the show. He dint seem as intersted as his earlier shows. But very kind and generouse himself. Did the backup singing for Maula when Javed ALi was singing and also wished everyone a safe journey back home. I am just as big a AR Rahman fan as many of you. But dissapointed by the quality of the show. In online to Rahman if you are listening respect the audience. If gopal or any other Rahman Army people are listening to this. Try to change a few things.
Re: [arr] Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month
ARR has always respected Audience. There are many things which need to be addressed in concerts..yes I agree..but those things are not under AR's control.He always gives his 100 %. I appreciate you have brought some good points. Regards Yogesh Pune The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
[arr] Kolkata Love for Rahman
Kolkata people must be eagerly waiting for concert. And I'm proud that AR is among few composers who have loved and worked upon Tagore's 'Rabindra-Sangeet'..He has used few elements of it in his music like 'Ghumparani' ,'Tanaha rahi', 'Kabhi neem neem' and I hope he'll do more research on that. Regards Yogesh Pune The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/
[arr] Re: Still Couples Retreat manages a good position in Box Office
It's currently at No. 7 and has already grossed 95 million. note that a movie that succeeds to gross 100 million (domestically) is considered a bonafide hit in Hollywood (given that it's budget is not above that). that's a great news for CR given that it received hugely negative reviews. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/ - Jahanzeb --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, mohammed sajin mnsa...@... wrote: No. 4 was Universal's Couples Retreat, the Vince Vaughn comedy, which lured $5.7 million from 1,596 situations in 18 territories for an overseas cume of $28.8 million. A second-place Germany introduction produced $2.8 million from 338 sites, per the distributor. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3iec91181b3bb41981a9ec03f8524a0e49
RE: [arr] Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month
Very well put and probably this is what is also required from this group , time to time. I guess the sole intention of this fan is to see ARR related things do not let down the ARR name that has come to reckon with supreme quality. VIjay and Gopal, please take this mail to ARR...I am surehe would be happy to see such contructive critisisms. regards, Karthik From: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com [arrahmanf...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of iucaa_hari [iucaa_h...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 1:37 AM To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Subject: [arr] Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month I paid 2000 Rs of my hard earned money to watch this show. I am huge AR Rahman fan and have seen two more of his live shows. I am used to the substandard level of service that is offered in India. Any kind of service. We don't have proper facilities anywhere in this country to hold an event together for any number more than twenty thousand people. For example Internation Cricket matches played in India. Have you been to any? No stadium in India can boast of a descent parking facility for ten thousand cars(now if you have a stadium for 50K people you would need it right?). TO be able to park conviniently and to take it of and leave easily itself is not possible. Let alone expect reserved seating, hygienic and versatile top of the line snacks and toilet facilities. All this for the richest cricketing body in the world. Now coming back to the AR Rahman show, the organisers are purely cashing in on AR Rahman's market to make money. Rapport Global thinks that if the Stage and the SOund is good(sound has always had a problem, since the my first show in 2004) then they are world class. Its just a plug-in-plug-out stage and organiser needs to understand that stage alone does not determine if the show is world class. I have a few questions proping up in my mind. (1) For a Brand like Rahman why do you need to coloborate with MARG to donate funds for AR Rahman foundation and Sakhti Foundation. Even if Rahman had done the show directly for Shakthi, the money would have come. Was collaborating with MARG so essential, taking 50K odd people for a 12 hour pacakage(total time to travel to-and-fro). (2) People pay money for the event that is promised. Not to see MARG advertising it self to 50K tired people(remember we are told no water bottles allowed but later everybody seemed to have one and people like me who adhere to ruled were idiots). When the program was promised to start at 6:30 PM why dint they start atleast after the MARG PR excercise. From 7:00 to 7:25 people were sitting like idiots. Tired and Hungry. (3) Extremely unproffessional not to have a Anchor for a show of this magnitude. Imagine 50 K people waiting and there is no show anchor, no introduction to songs, singers. Shocking. Most of the Junta dint know that AR was singing Fiqrana or what. Please organise more professionally. Introduce singers and Pieces. Treat the audience with respect. (4) The way back was another chaos with buses waiting in queque to leave the areana. The wait was for more than an hour. People sitting on the floor of the bus and what not. I reached home at 3 AM. Can't See a good reason why only MARG could do this. (5) The barricades dont work!!! I paid for my ticket but I sat or rather stood with people who dont seem to have paid or many of the people with 300 hundred rupee tickets landed in this part of the arena. The screens were not clear at all. That for the arrangments, to the music part. This sequence of songs has already been heard t the Times of India launch in Chennai Last year. The Jaage hain start and move to Khal Bali. Unless you have a fresher approach what was the need to do the same thing again. If Rahman wants to mix songs and does not want the language to be barrier that is great. ALthough many complained about Telugu(was it a dress rehearsal for the Hyd show?) and Hindi songs being played to a largely tamil audience, am ok as long as they take you thru the song by introducing it and taking people along. Certainly not the way it was done. Mr. Rahman has also moved away from the keyboards to being only a singer on the show. He dint seem as intersted as his earlier shows. But very kind and generouse himself. Did the backup singing for Maula when Javed ALi was singing and also wished everyone a safe journey back home. I am just as big a AR Rahman fan as many of you. But dissapointed by the quality of the show. In online to Rahman if you are listening respect the audience. If gopal or any other Rahman Army people are listening to this. Try to change a few things.
[arr] MovieWave review of Couples Retreat score
James Southall with a capsule review of the Couples Retreat score. http://www.movie-wave.net/capsules/?p=232
Re: [arr] Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month
Hi everyone, i think many of us had the same opinion about the concert. i had also posted one such letter in this group couple of days after the concert. i have just two things say 1) A R Rahman should be care full to do concerts with business houses. the point that it was the best possible advertisement marrg could have got can not be refuted. 2) In online to Rahman if you are listening respect the audience. I strongly condemn these words i would like to request iucaa_hari to look up the earlier posts on chennai concerts, he should be finding the forward mail from the GOD of music himself. i agree with vithur you will regret it. i also did the same blaming everything on A R R but few days later when i realized that A R R could not really control too many things there. i felt very bad that i have found a fault in A R R. i hope you take these words back. i felt even it is A R R's fault then to i should not regret because last 18 years of my life if i have to celebrate his music would be with me, his music has never made me feel lonely and all of us would have the same experience...he is working day and night for us...to give us something better each and every time..this would not be possible had he not respected his audience. in the same concert he did admit the mistakes in sound. -- ** MARKETPLACE Parenting Zone: Find useful resources for a happy, healthy family and homehttp://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=14krfheh6/M=493064.12016295.13793596.10835568/D=groups/S=1705043929:MKP1/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1257788306/L=/B=YnytJ0SO5.o-/J=1257781106109798/K=2xc9jIlO51.C9ehCpDcJkA/A=5898843/R=0/SIG=11kkq36go/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/parentingzone/ [image: Yahoo! Groups]http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkaWZkZjdtBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzEyNDcwOTIEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDQzOTI5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxMjU3NzgxMTA1 Switch to: Text-Onlyarrahmanfans-traditio...@yahoogroups.com?subject=change+delivery+format:+Traditional, Daily Digestarrahmanfans-dig...@yahoogroups.com?subject=email+delivery:+Digest• Unsubscribe arrahmanfans-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com?subject=unsubscribe• Terms of Use http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ .
[arr] Kahin To - Jai HO concert
Does anyone have video/audio of ARR playing Kahin to on piano @ Jai ho Chennai concert (or elsewhere)? Kindly share. Thanks.
[arr] Re: Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month
Some more from another fan: * The sound and volume - For an event like this, people come expecting to HEAR the sound and enjoy - everyone cant be near the stage to see but sure everyone can HEAR THE SOUND clearly? After the show started I was simply hoping anyone of the organisers would come and stand amidst the crowd and get to know how low the volume was. Midway through the show the volume improved but the system was nothing to boast of. * ARR thanked the musicians at the end of the show..nice..Wouldnt it be be good to see the musicians who play the songs onstage? Atleast on video screen? It was always the dancers and singers on stage. Agree this is a more general one applicable to many of the televised music programmes - For the DD 50 years Delhi show, Stephen was introduced as the keyboardist but after that there was no sight of him. Not even once. Playing keyboards is not some easy thing. Though there were shortcomings I ENJOYED THE SHOW TO THE HILT! IT WAS MY FIRST ARR CONCERT! :) --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, iucaa_hari iucaa_h...@... wrote: I paid 2000 Rs of my hard earned money to watch this show. I am huge AR Rahman fan and have seen two more of his live shows. I am used to the substandard level of service that is offered in India. Any kind of service. We don't have proper facilities anywhere in this country to hold an event together for any number more than twenty thousand people. For example Internation Cricket matches played in India. Have you been to any? No stadium in India can boast of a descent parking facility for ten thousand cars(now if you have a stadium for 50K people you would need it right?). TO be able to park conviniently and to take it of and leave easily itself is not possible. Let alone expect reserved seating, hygienic and versatile top of the line snacks and toilet facilities. All this for the richest cricketing body in the world. Now coming back to the AR Rahman show, the organisers are purely cashing in on AR Rahman's market to make money. Rapport Global thinks that if the Stage and the SOund is good(sound has always had a problem, since the my first show in 2004) then they are world class. Its just a plug-in-plug-out stage and organiser needs to understand that stage alone does not determine if the show is world class. I have a few questions proping up in my mind. (1) For a Brand like Rahman why do you need to coloborate with MARG to donate funds for AR Rahman foundation and Sakhti Foundation. Even if Rahman had done the show directly for Shakthi, the money would have come. Was collaborating with MARG so essential, taking 50K odd people for a 12 hour pacakage(total time to travel to-and-fro). (2) People pay money for the event that is promised. Not to see MARG advertising it self to 50K tired people(remember we are told no water bottles allowed but later everybody seemed to have one and people like me who adhere to ruled were idiots). When the program was promised to start at 6:30 PM why dint they start atleast after the MARG PR excercise. From 7:00 to 7:25 people were sitting like idiots. Tired and Hungry. (3) Extremely unproffessional not to have a Anchor for a show of this magnitude. Imagine 50 K people waiting and there is no show anchor, no introduction to songs, singers. Shocking. Most of the Junta dint know that AR was singing Fiqrana or what. Please organise more professionally. Introduce singers and Pieces. Treat the audience with respect. (4) The way back was another chaos with buses waiting in queque to leave the areana. The wait was for more than an hour. People sitting on the floor of the bus and what not. I reached home at 3 AM. Can't See a good reason why only MARG could do this. (5) The barricades dont work!!! I paid for my ticket but I sat or rather stood with people who dont seem to have paid or many of the people with 300 hundred rupee tickets landed in this part of the arena. The screens were not clear at all. That for the arrangments, to the music part. This sequence of songs has already been heard t the Times of India launch in Chennai Last year. The Jaage hain start and move to Khal Bali. Unless you have a fresher approach what was the need to do the same thing again. If Rahman wants to mix songs and does not want the language to be barrier that is great. ALthough many complained about Telugu(was it a dress rehearsal for the Hyd show?) and Hindi songs being played to a largely tamil audience, am ok as long as they take you thru the song by introducing it and taking people along. Certainly not the way it was done. Mr. Rahman has also moved away from the keyboards to being only a singer on the show. He dint seem as intersted as his earlier shows. But very kind and generouse himself. Did the backup singing for Maula when Javed ALi was singing and also wished everyone a safe journey back home. I
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[arr] Kolkata Love for Rahman
ghumparani mashi pishi is an old lullaby from bengal...and which song of rabindra nath is kabhi neem neem..??!! and i wish politicians from kolkata stays away from him...
