Rahaman asphyxiated by hysteric fans!
By Behindwoods News Bureau.
May 02, 2007
We have had talent hunts of all kinds, for singers, dancers, actors,
comedians and what not and now we have a talent hunt for an entire
music troupe. This initiative has been taken by Sun TV and Sa Re Ga
Ma. This search that is going to span the entire of Tamil Nadu and
Andhra Pradesh will finally zero in on one talented group that will
get a golden opportunity to make a musical album that will be released
by Sa Re Ga Ma.
The hunt will be quite a thorough process covering almost regions of
Tamil Nadu, right from Chennai to Coimbatore and Tirunelveli touching
Salem and Madurai too. A similar search will be on in Andhra. At the
end of the regional search, the best teams will be required to set to
tune a song written by Kavingar Vaali under the title Nambikkai
(confidence). The team that impresses the most will walk away wit the
big prize. The contest will be aired on Sun TV this June onwards.
When the event is this big, the judges too have to be big enough to
justify the event. It doesn't get bigger than this! A.R.Rahman will be
judging the teams and he will be accompanied by singer-actress
Vasundhara Das. The official curtain raiser for this talent hunt was
held on Wed evening (May 2nd) at the Park Hotel in Chennai in which
Rahman participated. The news of Rahman's presence somehow leaked and
within no time there was a huge crowd outside the venue and when
finally it was time for Rahman to leave it was pandemonium. Rahman was
virtually engulfed by the wave of admiring fans and why not, after all
this is Rahman's first real public appearance after the Sivaji audio
release. The crowd did not spare any effort in making their
appreciation for the wizard's music evident. But Rahman, caught in the
middle of a huge crowd had a tough time. After what seemed to be a
very long time Rahman finally managed to get away from the swarming fans.
The organizers of any function in which Rahman has to participate
please be prepared, the man has just delivered one of the biggest
musical hits in the history of Tamil cinema. It would only count as
common sense to expect huge crowds to gather to catch a glimpse of the
man who has given them `Balleilakka', `Athiradee' and other chartbusters.
As for A.R.Rahman, we have only one thing to say. Please don't feel
flustered, we just don't know how else to express our appreciation.
Your music is truly mesmerizing.
