Dear Rahmaniacs, I'm not sure, if this has been discussed earlier. I'd love to start a thread of messages, to share the experience when we listened to ARR's music for the first time ever. And how we were impressed / flattened. Got this idea, when i was reading review of Roja music in a website. Especially from Gopal / Vijay, would love to know your first experience listening to ARR.
Let me start... I happened to know about ARR very very late. I was in Class 9 i guess. We were in Ooty then. So movies dont get release than soon as in other cities. I came to know about him during the National Award for Roja. It was an evening, i had returned from School. There was a program in DD, curtain raiser for the National Award. Thats when i first heard the magical sound that i havent heard ever till then. My God... i said, what a sound it was, it went thru my nerves and mixed on to my blood. It was the song, "Pudhu Vellai mazhai...", the initial interlude, made me shiver in the Kashmiri snow, i really felt a cold when the chill sound splashes along with the beat... Wow man... and so my next question was, who is the composer. Next comes the surprise, a 25 year old young chap... And i ran out to the music shop to grab a cassette. I was flattened and still breathing his music. And i soaked in his music since then... I was called as "Rahman" in my college hostel. Siraj would know that... Where ever I go since then, ppl talking to me for 2 days will know that i'm a fan of ARR. That much i talk on ARR. :) Its been 17 yrs now. I cherish the times i run to music shops to grab the first cassette on almost all releases. Now, at the age of 30, i've somehow lost the habit of grabbing the first CD/Cassette, may be not getting time or out of reach, but the passion towards his music, will be there till my last breathe. Listening now to his voice "yelelo... " from Chinna Chinna Aasai... - Bergin Breathing HIS music.
