[arr] Re: ARR @ TVM - A first hand Report

2007-02-14 Thread A.M.Aravind 
Hi Arun,

That's a wonderful narration!!! Thanx man!!!


U are so lucky!!!

Aravind


--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "arunkbganesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear Fellow Group-Mates, 
> 
> First of all, apologies for the late report.. 
> 
> Feb 12, 2007
> 
> I had no idea which flight AR was coming in - all I had with me was 
> an unconfirmed news that he was coming in the IA Flight reaching TVM 
> at 11.10AM. I went to the aiport and was relieved to see a "KAIRALI 
> TV" car parked there, with cameras ready at the airport's exit. The 
> flight was delayed by around 20 minutes and reached only at 11:30am. 
> Within 10-15 minutes, I could spot Yesudas inside the airport waiting 
> to pick up his luggage. I could not spot ARR.. (I had also checked 
> with the airport folks whether AR was coming in this flight - and 
> they had said yes). So I was kinda worried when I could not spot 
> him... Anyways, it took some time for them to come out of the airport 
> coz of the cargo delay. 
>   Camera flashes started going off like mad, People started 
> crowding all of a sudden, policemen seemed to come out of nowhere - 
> ARR was on his way out with his Amma. He came down the aisle, was 
> walking towards the car. I was wearing the group T-Shirt, which has 
> his foto on it. He gave a nice stare onto it, smiled at me. 
> 
> I told him "Hi AR Sir, welcome to Trivandrum. I am from the ARR 
> group" . He acknowledged and moved on to his car 
> 
> I went round and again landed in front of him and said, "Sir, The 
> group in TVM would like to have a meet with you if it is not going to 
> cause ANY incovenience to you". 
> 
> AR : Hmmm... Do you have any number? 
> 
> (Damn me, I didnt have a pen, a paper or a visiting card @ that 
> time)  He understood my situation and said come to the hotel. 
> 
> Well, 1 thing i noticed here was, as soon as AR heard I am from the 
> group, his response was fabulous. He kept on talking to me, even when 
> the organisers kept the car door open and was requesting AR to get 
> inside the car. 
> 
> [ Well.. after that, if anyone saw me driving to the hotel , they 
> would have understood that even a Maruti 800 could complete in a F1 
> race. :-)  ] .. En route. I called up the group friends at TVM who 
> had contacted me (Srijith, Swapna, Praveen, Sarath Lal, Hakkeem and 
> the Seven Bells band) and asked them to come to the hotel immd. I 
> reached the hotel around 12.15pm, but AR hadnt arrived yet. (Later, 
> got a confirmation that he had gone to the Bheemapally mosque 
> directly from the airport to pray). 
> 
> AR reached after half an hour. We were waiting at the entrance of the 
> hotel, He smiled at us and went inside the hotel with his Amma, 
> accompanied by the Kairali crew. We decided to wait for however long 
> it was going to take. After around 20 mins, the Kairali person came 
> up and said "You came to meet AR right? Pls come this way"... 
> There was no sign of ARR anywhere nearby, and the other flks had not 
> reached yet, so we decided to wait on at the lobby. 
> 
> After around 5 minutes, one hotel staff came up and said "Are you 
> guys not going there? AR is waiting for you"  I got butterflies 
> in my stomach when I heard that!! Can anyone imagine a person like 
> ARR waiting at the lobby to meet his fans??? We rushed over.. and 
> apologised for the miss. His face looked very tired. We were 5 of us, 
> gathered around him and smiled. Nobody UTTERED a SINGLE WORD! :-) I 
> said "its a dream come true for all of us." He smiled. 
> I said "more people are on their way. they should be here any 
> minute". 
> AR : "Oh! but I am tired.. needed to get some sleep since I have to 
> wake up at 5pm, and go for the function".. (He was very tired, still 
> he came down to meet us and was waiting for us. We all felt so bad 
> making him wait).. We all said "Sure sir, please go ahead. This is 
> more than enuf for us". He said "Thanks" and got up to leave.
> 
> He started walking off which is when we rememberd about taking 
> fotos.:-) He gladly obliged for it (without a small trace of dissent 
> on his face), I took around 4-5 snaps while others posed. And off he 
> walked. ( The number of fotos in the hotel we took must be 2-3, since 
> we didnt want him to wait. Yeah, we knew this was a great 
> opportunity, but we didnt want to make the most of it by troubling 
> ARR).
> 
> Well... The more I see him in real, the more I am awed and amazed at 
> his humility, and down to earth attitude. He is a celebrity who is 
> not living in a fantasy world, and one knows what real life is all 
> about.
> 
> 
> PS : Photos are uploaded at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ergusee
> 
> There is technical problem in getting the videos (airport arrival 
> video and Swaralaya function video)out of the handycam. So please 
> bear with me for a day. I am trying to fix it.
> 
> Cheers!
> ~Arun KB
>

[arr] Re: ARR @ TVM - A first hand Report

2007-02-13 Thread billgates3k 

Dear Music Guru's Fans

Congratsoh you got a Great Moments with Music Guru.

  [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/389380465_f54cb57b99_m.jpg] 

Yesudas presenting the award to ARR

  [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/389746950_182ecd66ac_m.jpg] 

ARR at Leela kovalam - with Emil, Praveen & Swapna

  [http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/389379045_95f31b4add_m.jpg] 

ARR with Emil & Praveen - at Leela Kovalam

with regards
billgates3k



--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "arunkbganesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear Fellow Group-Mates,
>
> First of all, apologies for the late report..
>
> Feb 12, 2007
>
> I had no idea which flight AR was coming in - all I had with me was
> an unconfirmed news that he was coming in the IA Flight reaching TVM
> at 11.10AM. I went to the aiport and was relieved to see a "KAIRALI
> TV" car parked there, with cameras ready at the airport's exit. The
> flight was delayed by around 20 minutes and reached only at 11:30am.
> Within 10-15 minutes, I could spot Yesudas inside the airport waiting
> to pick up his luggage. I could not spot ARR.. (I had also checked
> with the airport folks whether AR was coming in this flight - and
> they had said yes). So I was kinda worried when I could not spot
> him... Anyways, it took some time for them to come out of the airport
> coz of the cargo delay.
> Camera flashes started going off like mad, People started
> crowding all of a sudden, policemen seemed to come out of nowhere -
> ARR was on his way out with his Amma. He came down the aisle, was
> walking towards the car. I was wearing the group T-Shirt, which has
> his foto on it. He gave a nice stare onto it, smiled at me.
>
> I told him "Hi AR Sir, welcome to Trivandrum. I am from the ARR
> group" . He acknowledged and moved on to his car
>
> I went round and again landed in front of him and said, "Sir, The
> group in TVM would like to have a meet with you if it is not going to
> cause ANY incovenience to you".
>
> AR : Hmmm... Do you have any number?
>
> (Damn me, I didnt have a pen, a paper or a visiting card @ that
> time)  He understood my situation and said come to the hotel.
>
> Well, 1 thing i noticed here was, as soon as AR heard I am from the
> group, his response was fabulous. He kept on talking to me, even when
> the organisers kept the car door open and was requesting AR to get
> inside the car.
>
> [ Well.. after that, if anyone saw me driving to the hotel , they
> would have understood that even a Maruti 800 could complete in a F1
> race. :-) ] .. En route. I called up the group friends at TVM who
> had contacted me (Srijith, Swapna, Praveen, Sarath Lal, Hakkeem and
> the Seven Bells band) and asked them to come to the hotel immd. I
> reached the hotel around 12.15pm, but AR hadnt arrived yet. (Later,
> got a confirmation that he had gone to the Bheemapally mosque
> directly from the airport to pray).
>
> AR reached after half an hour. We were waiting at the entrance of the
> hotel, He smiled at us and went inside the hotel with his Amma,
> accompanied by the Kairali crew. We decided to wait for however long
> it was going to take. After around 20 mins, the Kairali person came
> up and said "You came to meet AR right? Pls come this way"...
> There was no sign of ARR anywhere nearby, and the other flks had not
> reached yet, so we decided to wait on at the lobby.
>
> After around 5 minutes, one hotel staff came up and said "Are you
> guys not going there? AR is waiting for you"  I got butterflies
> in my stomach when I heard that!! Can anyone imagine a person like
> ARR waiting at the lobby to meet his fans??? We rushed over.. and
> apologised for the miss. His face looked very tired. We were 5 of us,
> gathered around him and smiled. Nobody UTTERED a SINGLE WORD! :-) I
> said "its a dream come true for all of us." He smiled.
> I said "more people are on their way. they should be here any
> minute".
> AR : "Oh! but I am tired.. needed to get some sleep since I have to
> wake up at 5pm, and go for the function".. (He was very tired, still
> he came down to meet us and was waiting for us. We all felt so bad
> making him wait).. We all said "Sure sir, please go ahead. This is
> more than enuf for us". He said "Thanks" and got up to leave.
>
> He started walking off which is when we rememberd about taking
> fotos.:-) He gladly obliged for it (without a small trace of dissent
> on his face), I took around 4-5 snaps while others posed. And off he
> walked. ( The number of fotos in the hotel we took must be 2-3, since
> we didnt want him to wait. Yeah, we knew this was a great
> opportunity, but we didnt want to make the most of it by troubling
> ARR).
>
> Well... The more I see him in real, the more I am awed and amazed at
> his humility, and down to earth attitude. He is a celebrity who is
> not living in

[arr] Re: ARR @ TVM - A first hand Report

2007-02-13 Thread durba bhattacharjee 

Congratulationsyou must have had the most precious moments of 
your life time...thanks for the images...ARR is really looking very 
tired

Durba


--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "arunkbganesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> Dear Fellow Group-Mates, 
> 
> First of all, apologies for the late report.. 
> 
> Feb 12, 2007
> 
> I had no idea which flight AR was coming in - all I had with me 
was 
> an unconfirmed news that he was coming in the IA Flight reaching 
TVM 
> at 11.10AM. I went to the aiport and was relieved to see 
a "KAIRALI 
> TV" car parked there, with cameras ready at the airport's exit. 
The 
> flight was delayed by around 20 minutes and reached only at 
11:30am. 
> Within 10-15 minutes, I could spot Yesudas inside the airport 
waiting 
> to pick up his luggage. I could not spot ARR.. (I had also checked 
> with the airport folks whether AR was coming in this flight - and 
> they had said yes). So I was kinda worried when I could not spot 
> him... Anyways, it took some time for them to come out of the 
airport 
> coz of the cargo delay. 
>   Camera flashes started going off like mad, People started 
> crowding all of a sudden, policemen seemed to come out of nowhere -
 
> ARR was on his way out with his Amma. He came down the aisle, was 
> walking towards the car. I was wearing the group T-Shirt, which 
has 
> his foto on it. He gave a nice stare onto it, smiled at me. 
> 
> I told him "Hi AR Sir, welcome to Trivandrum. I am from the ARR 
> group" . He acknowledged and moved on to his car 
> 
> I went round and again landed in front of him and said, "Sir, The 
> group in TVM would like to have a meet with you if it is not going 
to 
> cause ANY incovenience to you". 
> 
> AR : Hmmm... Do you have any number? 
> 
> (Damn me, I didnt have a pen, a paper or a visiting card @ that 
> time)  He understood my situation and said come to the hotel. 
> 
> Well, 1 thing i noticed here was, as soon as AR heard I am from 
the 
> group, his response was fabulous. He kept on talking to me, even 
when 
> the organisers kept the car door open and was requesting AR to get 
> inside the car. 
> 
> [ Well.. after that, if anyone saw me driving to the hotel , they 
> would have understood that even a Maruti 800 could complete in a 
F1 
> race. :-)  ] .. En route. I called up the group friends at TVM who 
> had contacted me (Srijith, Swapna, Praveen, Sarath Lal, Hakkeem 
and 
> the Seven Bells band) and asked them to come to the hotel immd. I 
> reached the hotel around 12.15pm, but AR hadnt arrived yet. 
(Later, 
> got a confirmation that he had gone to the Bheemapally mosque 
> directly from the airport to pray). 
> 
> AR reached after half an hour. We were waiting at the entrance of 
the 
> hotel, He smiled at us and went inside the hotel with his Amma, 
> accompanied by the Kairali crew. We decided to wait for however 
long 
> it was going to take. After around 20 mins, the Kairali person 
came 
> up and said "You came to meet AR right? Pls come this way"... 
> There was no sign of ARR anywhere nearby, and the other flks had 
not 
> reached yet, so we decided to wait on at the lobby. 
> 
> After around 5 minutes, one hotel staff came up and said "Are you 
> guys not going there? AR is waiting for you"  I got 
butterflies 
> in my stomach when I heard that!! Can anyone imagine a person like 
> ARR waiting at the lobby to meet his fans??? We rushed over.. and 
> apologised for the miss. His face looked very tired. We were 5 of 
us, 
> gathered around him and smiled. Nobody UTTERED a SINGLE WORD! :-) 
I 
> said "its a dream come true for all of us." He smiled. 
> I said "more people are on their way. they should be here any 
> minute". 
> AR : "Oh! but I am tired.. needed to get some sleep since I have 
to 
> wake up at 5pm, and go for the function".. (He was very tired, 
still 
> he came down to meet us and was waiting for us. We all felt so bad 
> making him wait).. We all said "Sure sir, please go ahead. This is 
> more than enuf for us". He said "Thanks" and got up to leave.
> 
> He started walking off which is when we rememberd about taking 
> fotos.:-) He gladly obliged for it (without a small trace of 
dissent 
> on his face), I took around 4-5 snaps while others posed. And off 
he 
> walked. ( The number of fotos in the hotel we took must be 2-3, 
since 
> we didnt want him to wait. Yeah, we knew this was a great 
> opportunity, but we didnt want to make the most of it by troubling 
> ARR).
> 
> Well... The more I see him in real, the more I am awed and amazed 
at 
> his humility, and down to earth attitude. He is a celebrity who is 
> not living in a fantasy world, and one knows what real life is all 
> about.
> 
> 
> PS : Photos are uploaded at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ergusee
> 
> There is technical problem in getting the videos (airport arrival 
> video and Swaralaya function video)out of the handycam. So please 
> bear with me for a day. I am trying to fix it.
> 
>