Dear Mr. Rao, Thanks a lot for your wonderful words. In a few lines you have described what a true ARR fan has in his heart...and I wish to hear more from other members of this group instead of hearing X,Y n Z trying to justify himself thinking he knows everything, trying to prove his knowledge and being arrogant with personal conflicts towards other members who dont share his views. This group should be reserved and privileged for messages with scoops about rahman's projects and glorify his works. I wish to hear more of messages describing the uniqueness of rahman's genuosity in using a common instrument for other MDs and how he uses it differently in his songs to his own style...
I urge Gopal and other moderators to be more vigilant on messages from members who deviates from the main purpose of this group. Maybe should we have policies for posting. I dont want to see anymore mails about language issues or hindi/tamil stuff. Rahman's religion and language is music and music ONLY. I dont understand neither hindi nor tamil, still I understand the feelings in his music and I dont ask for translation cause i prefer it like that. Rarely will I pay attention to lyrics unless I watch dvd. I wonder why we dont hear from Ranojoy, Krish ashwin, Thevaker, Satish etc... who was members since 1999. Gopal do we have statistics about the group? Cheers, NIVEN (I think im only rahman fan from MAURITIUS :-( > > csrao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Friends, > I do not know how much I am qualified or not qualified to say some thing on this knowledge forum. Though I am with the group for months on, this is my first posting. My favorites are almost all the songs of ARR. As a matter of fact I am, eminently placed to get disqualified from belonging to this Group. I do not know Hindi. I do not Know Tamil. I do not have any knowledge of Music. Above all this, I am aged all of 72 years. But I have a gut feeling about and instant reaction to good tunes, good instrumentation and calm, soothing and vibrant music. > That day ages back when I first heard songs from Roja, I instinctively knew that this gentleman arrived to thrill us forever and take us on a musical raid of un-scalable and unimaginable heights. He elevated cine music to unattainable heights. > I have a good collection of his Tamil songs which I love many, I like all. Daily, I listen to these songs for 2 to 4 hours. They refresh me, keep me fit and energetic. Arr's uniquness, according to me, I repeat, according to me,, lies in: > 1. Treating voice [male or female] as yet another instrument, to be played upon. > 2. Each of his song is a symphony. To reach those heights and lows in 3/4 minutes is possible only to him. > 3. He is a master at creating heavenly interludes which are more often than not are the highlights of many songs. > 4. I had never heard any one using drums [or allied instruments], shehnai, [I am not worried about exact names, as long as I enjoy them], flute to this advantage. How he introduces weaving them in to the voice, takes them, leaving the voice behind, to a solo crescendo and taper off, very effectively, yet all in a fraction of a minute, which is humanly impossible. He is Blessed, if not he himself is Divine. > 5. I divide the Indian cine music era in to two segments. PreARR and PostARR eras. In the PreARR era we used to ask who sang that song? Rafi or Kishore. Now we ask who composed it? That is the power duly acquired and got by our honored ARR. > I have my own two Play-lists of ARR's Tamil songs. One I play in whichever mood I am in. These songs are level-all gems. The second list I play when I feel I am in good and high spirit! > In other words, what I am saying is that I adore those, around 70, Tamil songs tuned by ARR, even though I do not know the language. Proving, if proof is needed, music has no language. Rather It is ARR who proved it through millions like me. Let us not enter in to Lilliputian arguments over that GIANT Musician whose presence amongst us we are fortunate to have. > The Beauty is I hear his songs even when I am not listening to them!!! Thanks to those haunting and teasing melodies and tunes. > csrao > > > > > > "No matter how much you do, > it's never enough. > Music is my only therapy. > There are so many awful things happening in the world. > I wish i could heal the world." -- A R Rahman > > --------------------------------- > Explore your hobbies and interests. Click here to begin. >
