pattern & arrangement of old traditional VM + beautiful orchestration by rahman is stunning awesome. it made to think why anuradhu sriram having ample energy scope to sing most difficult phrases as she did in this video could not get much offers from rahman. Anuradha Sriram deserves lot from rahman compositions. Sujatha is also good but her renditions are limited. Sujata cant much come out of her creativity like anuradha did her vocals. Its a fact anuradha learnt both carnatic & hindustani for most of years under some best gurus. This helps her to reach that complicated brigaas & vocal patterns. Thats where rahman give freedom to singers & choose the best from them with his gadgets. Else :) by collecting their creativity, rahman stealing all credits owing to singers & instrumentalists. People who are not used to classical music will be thinking all these suggested by rahman which is not so. In all the cases of creative part of that extra vocals, full marks go only to the singers which is not much known to the minds of commons. Thai mannay vannakkam is also excellent & rare to see rahman shouts vande mataram in middle. He looks casual doing these. thanks 4 videos.
--- On Sat, 9/20/08, Aravind AM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Aravind AM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [arr] [Youtube] RARE video! ARR performing at Marina beach To: "ARRFANS" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008, 4:44 PM Hi, I was looking through my old VHS tapes, and chanced upon this video which I recorded when I was a kid! I was so excited to see this again after about 12 years! And, of course, I wanted to share my excitement and happiness with everyone here - in the arrahmanfans Yahoo group!! I've converted from the video from VHS to digital format and have uploaded it youtube. (If you find the audio/video quality to be poor it is because it is a 12 year old video extracted from an old and dilapidated VHS tape!!! Please excuse! :P ) About the event: This was during Independence Day Celebrations in 1997 or 1998 (I'm not sure!!). A huge set, which was a replica of Andaman Cellular Jail, was erected at the Marina in Chennai, which served as a backdrop. A.R.Rahman performed 4 songs -Vande Mataram-Revival, Thamiha Thamizha (bit), Bombay Theme Music and Maa Tujhe Salaam. Singers Sujatha Mohan, Anuradha Sriram, Flautist Naveen performed in this show. Here are the links: http://in.youtube. com/watch? v=3Ruz0Mk9vxw http://in.youtube. com/watch? v=KTrVYFYTcsk Cheers, Aravind http://arrahmaniac. blogspot. com Download Rahmania show interviews at http://rahmania. 4shared.com Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now
