hey durba!!! am so so so glad that u mentioned surabhi interview here!!! dat SURABHI interview was my first encounter wid arr.. I remember, Renuka shahane and Siddharth were mentioning that there is a young boy who has composed a music for some southindian movie which is making everyone go mad!!! i was around 7 years old that time!!! Though the interview was in English..so, that time i cudnt understand it fully!!! but the song "chinna chinna asai" kept on ringing my ears for almost an year!! and almost a year later..i heard the same song in hindi ..on DD metro!!! wow!!!! i jumped..i shouted saying...hey a very young boy has composed this music... everyone in my home was laughing at me..the way i was jumping and narrating the story to everyone sitting there.. NOONE KNEW THAT TIME THAT...THIS YOUNG BOY WILL CHANGE MY LIFE FOREVER.. well, to tell the truth..i am from extreme north ..Jammu and Kashmir is my state.. but its just the power of arr's music..that now i can even read and write tamil !! I have almost byhearted all the tamil songs!!!In my college ppl used to call me the Encyclopedia of AR Rahman..u need any info bout him...i was there...hehehehehehe arr's music is running in my blood... he has turned me into half south indian!!!lol!! and the best part is that i found my soul mate..who is also a Rahmaniac!!! and who belongs to Southindia!!! so we can say that ARR's magic has brought NORTH and SOUTH together!!!
but guys...i yesterday i thought of downloading that Surabhi interview from youtube..but they have deleted that!!! if anyone is having that..can u plz upload that or send to me???ill b million times thankful to that person..as that interview is very close to my heart..and i always want to preserve it wid me!!! thanx.. -- love music love life ----- Original Message ----- From: durba bhattacharjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:15:02 +0530 (IST) Subject: Re: [arr] When I heard ARR for the first time !!! It's a wonderful thread started by Bergin (???)....I read it when he posted it first but couldnt reply. It's good that the topic has come up again. Just like Bergin (???), I heard arr for the first time in the curtain raiser program for national award that year. It was the starting piece of Yeh Haseen Vadiyaan. Madhu looking amazed at the snow covered peaks and valleys. At that time except for the music piece, nothing registered in my mind as Roja was a Tamil movie and then Tamil was similar a language as Hebrew now. After some time I saw the interview of ARR in Surabhi and again nothing registered in my mind. I was in school then and I hardly could understand English conversation. Some months later when me and my family happened to watch the dubbed version of Roja quite accidentally, and when the Yeh haseena Vadiyan started, I was on the verge of my chair, as the tune was very familiar, something very lovable. Only it was then when I started to hunt my brain hard and started to recollect all the 'unregistered' events and came to knwo the man - a r rahman. durba Pradeepan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It was not ROJA for me ! actuall my case of getting into Rahman is slightly different from most others. because the first time I started to listen to film music was when "Kadhalan" was released and "Take it Easy" was playing everywhere !!! I didnt even know at that time about Roja or Thiruda Thiruda or Bombay ! wonder I was like that.. but its basically because my parents used to play lot of non-film music.. so I never was into listening filmi music. but it was my Quarterly holidays. and Vividh Bharathi was playing Kadhalan Ad. "Gentleman Films pugal K.T.Kunjumohan vazhangum Kadhalan" "A.R.Rahman innisayil Kadhalan".. I got hooked onto Take it Easy & Kadhalan as a whole. I saw an interview of him & fell in love with the man himself ;) . I then started going backwards in time. I learnt this same guy had composed Roja, Bombay, Thiruda Thiruda, Duet & many others.. and I was able to pick the small changes in ARR (evolution) from Roja to Thiruda Thiruda.. Kadhalan changed me forever ... from being a guy who never listened to music much To someone keeping his ears almost into the speaker finding out the small sounds & effects ARR uses in each song. Long live ARR & His Music. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Aravind AM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh.. this is a good thread! :) should be interesting to read everyone's experiences! my first exp - I had narrated when i went on the Fan show on Aaha FM's Rahmania.. here we go again... I was in my 4th standard when Roja released.. I didnt know much about movies/ film music at that time, though I used to listen to a lot of music....The only MD i knew then, was Illayaraja... one of my seniors from school came and gave me a cassette and asked me to practice one of the songs on my keyboard, so that I could accompany the singers. Need I even mention that the cassette was Roja cassette? the song was "Thamizha Thamizha"... I listened to it and was totally floored!!! It was nothing like anything I had heard b4. I listened to all the songs, and I was spell bound, and listened to them so many times that day!! And later, when we performed Thamizha thamizha on stage, we got a very good response as well! :) Aravind Indmov Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is such a lovely thread! Thanks for starting it, Bergin! Although it's a bit old I can't help sharing my unforgettable experience with you guys. My parents and I were on holiday in India for the very first time ( I was 9 years old). We were in most parts of India and finished off in Chennai as part of a pilgrimage. So our last 3 nights in India were in Chennai and I remember my mother enjoying all the shopping whilst my dad and I were too engrossed, absorbing the radiance in the atmosphere of the city. So different to where I come from but still felt very much like home and I remember not wanting to leave. On the last night we decided to go watch a movie (my first Indian movie on big screen) and Roja had just released. I can't remember why we picked it. Actually everything from this point is a blur except for until Chinna Chinna Aasai started playing on screen. I remember vividly the feeling that came over me when Chinna Chinna Aasai started. I think 'happy' would be too simpler word to use but I felt an extremely pleasant feeling taking over me. Something beyond words and same for the other songs and of course the movie itself! My mum loved the songs too. I walked out of Roja , with admiration for two people*. Two people that I now have the greatest admiration in Indian Cinema: Rahman and Maniratnam. I remember being really adamant in wanting to buy the Roja cassette before we left to the airport. I was literally crying at the hotel reception so my poor parents were forced to take this crying kid to this Bazaar (not sure what the name is) to buy the cassette, on our way out of T.Nagar towards the airport. Mission accomplished, for me- we found it! Unfortunately not everyone was happy at the end of that day! My parents that is -because we missed the flight back home! Well, my parents think that we may have made it if I hadn't thrown a tantrum to buy the cassette and if we didn't have to go out of the way to get the cassette but I am sure you guys would agree that it was the Chennai traffic. Not my fault or anything!:) P.S: I still cherish that first cassette. Although a bit in tatters , it's still part of my proud rahman collection. *Actually 3, if I have to be honest (arvindasamy too! ) ;) --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://arrahmaniac.blogspot.com --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. -- Cheers, Pradeepan. "All you need to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to you !" --------------------------------- Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. Click here to know how.
