A.R. Rahman presence rocks alma mater
The Hindu
The former PSBB-Lake Area student was chief guest at the 25th annual
inter-school cultural meet
A SIGN FOR THE FUTURE: Students crowd around A.R. Rahman for an autograph at
PSBB School's
Cultural Reverberations 2005. Photo: K. Pichumani
CHENNAI: A.R. Rahman went back to school at the behest of his mother and
English teacher. This
time, the former PSBB-Lake Area student who "was the one-man band for all the
school events" in
his time, was the chief guest at the inauguration of the 25th annual
inter-school cultural
Reverberations 2005. Violinist brothers Ganesh and Kumaresh were the guests of
honour.
He was greeted with hysterical screams and cheers as soon as his famous curls
became visible to
the students.
He apologised for his late entry ("I was working through the night"), but the
students did not
seem to mind.
The DJ kept playing bursts of Rahman hits such as Muqabla, Fanaa and Vande
Mataram.
The last was also performed spiritedly by the school band, an appropriate
choice as Ganesh also
played for it.
Rahman said though he was musically inclined even as a schoolboy it was during
one of the
culturals that he got his first taste of rock music such as Deep Purple.
"Yeaaah Deep Purple!"
yelled one young man enthusiastically and the DJ played the opening strains of
"Smoke on the
Water" as Rahman looked on amused.
Reverberations was also significant to the two guests of honour as Kumaresh
once made a clean
sweep of the music prizes when he participated in the culturals as a student of
Santhome High
School.
The culturals had an invigorating and memorable opening when Ganesh and
Kumaresh sang a bhajan
of Sai Baba and Rahman sang "Dil Se" ("Wrong song for you, but I like this
song," he said).
"We neglect our cities at our peril. For, in neglecting them, we neglect the
nation."
-John F. Kennedy
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