Hi All, Nice to read everyone's first experience of listening ARR. I Unconsciously listened ARR from Roja time. Roja used to be telecasted on DD1 every 15 August. I used to wait for the part where BGM comes, the one which is the beggining of Roja Janeman song.
Consciously i started listening ARR from Zubeidaa. The song used to come on radio and i loved it. Later on i found out that it was a Shyam Benegal film, the director was my most favorite one. Because of that i bought Cassette. Came to know about A R Rahman and the process started; the end of which was me becoming a Rahmaniac. Pravinder --- In [email protected], "Bergin Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
