Songs of Kangalal Kaithi Sei... seriously.... a national award grabber... but alas, went unnoticed......
--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote: > > On 2/6/2009 12:35 PM India Time, _V S Rawat_ wrote: > > > One of my friends, some 24 year old, visited me yesterday and was using > > my pc and playing songs. He happened to put Kisna songs and was playing > > them all randomly so he reached put "kisna them [inst]". > > Yesterday, this guy visited again and I happen to put "Provoked" songs > in winamp without telling him anything about it. > > Other songs he heard without noticing much, we kept on talking and then > "Shillong" started playing and not even 3-4 seconds into it and he > literally, physically jumped, got hold of mouse and increased the > volume. He commented "soooo catchy." His body was shaking in some dance > moves and he was listening to it fully engrossed. > > He again commented "Rahman?" looking at me. I smiled. He commented "Of > course!" and laughed himself, and said "I never heard this one." and > kept on listening to it and monkey dancing sitting on the chair. > > All songs of the movie kept on playing in loop but this is the one that > captivated him most. > > I had noticed that he had recently started putting "A R Rahman" as his > fav music personality in his social networking sites profiles. > Previously, he was putting only English music personalities' names > there. All those have given way to "A R Rahman" now. > > Yesterday he remarked "if Rahman gets an Oscar, I wish to give him a > dinner wherever he says." > > (hope you guys don't find anything objectionable in his "if" and "he > says". This is innocent comment of a young guy.) > > And his wish has more chance of coming true than many such wishes of > mine because the guy is a charmer and does what he sets to do. As an > example, he is a friend of Simran Kaur (Miss India Universe 2008) whom > he had come to know on his known, he says, while the bombay girl was > studying here at Indore and they both were captains of their ladies' and > men's basketball teams respectively. He said she had even visited his > family and met his parents, so I guess he is not lying. Please read > nothing more in it than what is written. > > I told him "if you manage to give a dinner to ARR, then I will give YOU > a dinner." he he he. I am a humble one. > > Whatever. The point is that our friendship has gone to a deeper level > due to ARR's music. He now asks me things about ARR and his music, > though otherwise he considers himself to be omniscient. > > -- > > I felt sort of sad that several such great works of our man had gone > unnoticed due to poor marketing, no advertising when they have the > capability to charm people in a few seconds. > > I wonder whether we fans can find some ways of spreading awareness about > our man's such "lost" great work among our friends circle. Please > suggest how we can do it. Individually we had been doing it, but I > wonder if we could now start doing it coherently as a mission, like - by > selecting a "song of the week" among ARR's "unnoticed" songs and play > that for ourselves and share with our friends and on net mailing lists, > newsgroups, forums, etc. during the week. > > -- > Rawat >
