hey mb4zap, thulasi,ramanfever bro(i like to call u wid dis name), Pravinder
and Vithur
thankyou so much for such beautiful wordings...
Frankly speaking i never imagined dat someone will read the whole post with
such interest..there were alot of things which i wanted to include but didnt
not as it will take months for me to write and same for readers...
but really thank you so much for reading it ..
mb4zap, urs is the best compliment i have got
rahman fever brother-- i was amazed that u picked the right sentence..though i
was hestitant to write that fact..but wen i read ur response...i cudnt help
smiling...and want to thank you for reading such minute things mentioned there
and hey how can i forget someone from trivandrum???LOLZ
Thulasi..thanks for the tag..lolz
and brother vithur...wat to say..movie??? now dats too much...den there wud b
lakhs of movies on the same theme... :)
~Love Music Love Life
Neetika Raina
----- Original Message -----
From: "mb4zap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:53:15 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai,
New Delhi
Subject: Re: [arr]My message for ARR
Excellent expression... i want to congratulate you... for being able to write
this superb post.
My feeling are mutual on many of your notes, he has influenced me the same...
and i have always wished to put my story the way you did, i made many attempts
to complete a write-up... not only for this group but may be for my next
generations - for my future kids, grand kids and so forth! i want them to know
wat ARR is, how he came and evolved in my life and how he has been with me from
my very tender age... but th fear that i cant put all my feelings, all my
emotions and all that has gone between me and ARR (virtually!) has always kept
me from completing it. Now you have inspired me again :)
My thanks to You!
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Neetika raina <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote:
This posting is my story, my journey with ARR..
I just wish to tell him once, how much influenced i am by him
and how much impact ARR has in every big decision of my Life...
I want to thank him with this post.
I knw dis post is very lengthy ...sorry for dat!!!!
http://armozdream. blogspot. com/
THANK YOU SO MUCH
A tiny soul wandering around forests, restless from the remembrance of previous
birth's unpleasant memories. There were a lot of issues which had to be
settled, lots of promises which had to be fulfilled... Saw a beautiful place
surrounded by mountains, fresh air, fresh water, divine ambience and thought of
taking birth to a beautiful and caring couple and that is how I was born... I
was born at the extreme end of country "India" .There is a beautiful city
called as "Jammu". Before I could learn any means of communication, I developed
a sense towards sounds. Sounds which have some special quality in them, which
gave them a pride of being called as "Music"... U can say that I had some
special affinity towards music as the first words which came out of my mouth
were some Punjabi folk song which i used to hear a lot in my early age. It
totally amazed my dad, who nearly jumped seeing his daughter uttering some
words... And after few years, it was the sound
of Aazan (Namaz) in Ptv which caught my ears. Though I too small to understand
the meaning of religion or religious prayers or even to understand the words of
that divine prayer but i was crazy for that. I used to fight with my parents to
switch Ptv at right time every day. That caused a reason of worry in my Hindu
Brahmin family. A doubt occurred to them fearing if its some last birth effect
or some kind of influence of Ptv but after few years, all the doubts were
cleared...
I was nearly 9 years old & watching my favorite show "Surabhi" on doordarshan.
They were talking about a guy "Rahman" who is very young but has created a rage
in music industry and then they played a Tamil song "Chinna Chinna Aasai"
Though the interview with that guy was in English (that time an alien language
for me) but the lines Chinna Chinna aasai infected my nervous system somehow.
Later, after few months the same Tamil film "Roja" got released in Hindi. I
jumped listening to "Dil hi chota sa". That was the time when a new phase in my
life started. My next encounter with ARR was with the movie "Bombay". The
song"Kuchi Kuchi Rakma" was the pick of my ears. May b it was the simple
"Dholak sound" or the innocent voice of GV Prakash which caught my kiddy
ears(but later found out the complexity of the song, how Persian sound is fused
with folk composition) .Those days my ears were not matured enough to
understand the melody of "Tu Hi Re..." or "Bombay
Theme".It was few months later, when i accidently forgot to press the stop
button of my cassette player after the song "Hama Hama" and the sound of "Tu hi
re" filled the room. My heart skipped a beat, all of a sudden i developed a new
emotion. There started a new journey, suddenly as if i understood the meaning
of art. I could relate pain with the sound of "Bombay theme" and den soon i
started to ignore other songs for these 2 tracks. It really sounds funny now.
Then ARR gave his first Hindi album "Rangeela". The songs became like my
morning, afternoon and evening prayers. Within a week i by hearted the lyrics,
tune orchestraization and the mysterious sounds which ARR always embeds in his
songs. The were so many movies which did not make much sound in bollywood but I
was lucky to get a hand over the cassettes like Priyanka ( Indira), Chor
Chor(Thiruda thiruda),Vishwa Vidhata (Pudhiya Mugham), Kabhi na kabhi. I had no
idea how those songs were getting dissolved in my blood. There was some other
music also which caught my ear like Enigma, sound of Colonial cousins, Shankar
Mahadevan's breathless etc but it was ARR who became an inseparable part of my
life. I was a loner from my childhood, lost in my own world. I had created a
world of ARR around me. His pictures at the 4 sides of the wall of my room.
More than 75 pictures. I used to keep an eye on magazines. Actually one of my
cousins used to get cuttings of ARR
interviews for me from various magazines. I used to read about his Tamil music
in interviews. Tried a lot but never got any Tamil album in Jammu. Then, after
my 10th standard exam i got an opportunity to visit Bangalore "My First Trip to
South India". There i bought all the Tamil songs of ARR. There were about 20
cassettes ..Pudhiya Mugham,Gentleman, Muthu,Padayappa, Kadhal Desam,MayMaatham,
Kaaruthamma, Kadhalan, Duet, Indira, Iruvar, Kizhaakku Cheemayile,Uzhavan.
...etc.They started bringing changes in me.Sitting on the terrace of my
sister's hostel(ie in Chitradurga) ...staring at the coconut trees (We dnt have
coconut trees in jammu), listening to the songs like Thirakatta, enswasa
kartrae . It was a memorable time of my life. I have no idea, when "Chinna
Chinna Asai" took the place of "Dil hi chota sa" in my heart or u can say that
i became addicted to "Thiruda Thiruda" or "Indira" more than "chor chor" or
"Priyanka".
I was missing SouthIndia after returning back to my native.Though I had the
cassettes with me but i faced one small problem. I wanted to know who the
singers are and the cover details were usually written in Tamil. I could easily
recognise singers like SPB,Hariharan, Chitra,Sujatha etc who had sung hindi
songs also but there were many singers who were not known to there in north
India. I loved unni Krishnan,Bombay Jayshree's voice in Iruvar but that time
always wished if someone could read the names for me... And then i got the
solution for that.The movie names were written in both the languages, Tamil and
English. So, I started picking up the alphabets from there and learnt them and
that was the way i started reading and writing tamil ... yeah, i learnt to read
and write tamil words but noone was there to explain the word's meanings to me
. The first word i learnt to write in tamil was ofcource , the name,
ARRahman...
Then after my 12th, i got admission in a college in Bangalore. So the problem
to the access to tamil music got solved but there i came accross people who
like barring music in terms of langauge , regions. They scolded me for
listening to Tamil music while staying in Karnataka. Politians were playing
games with the hearts of people but as the distance between north and south
couldnt keep me away from worshing ARR's music , how could these small talks
stop me? "ARR never stopped creating gems, and i never stopped decorating my
life with those gems. " He always gave me reasons to smile,dance, cry even gave
me inspiration and support. I remember how much inspired i had been with the
song of film Meenakshi "Do Kadam Aur Sahi". ARR gave me all the emotions and
expressions of my life.
Then , the day came which i was like a dream for me. ARR was going to perform
live in Bangalore. It was like a dream come true. But then came the worst part,
Tickets were very costly. The decent crowd ticket was for minimum 3k and i was
supposed to buy two tickets as i had to sponsor the ticket for my friend also.
Otherwise it was impossible for me to attend the concert alone, at night. To
arrange 6k was a big issue for a student...but then my sister helped me like an
angel. She bought the tickets for me and my friend. I reached the venue 2 hrs
before. My heartbeat was impossible to control I was just dying to see ARR but
as God was testing my patience. It started raining like anything. Even a part
of stage broke down. I and my friend got fully drenched in rain. She asked me
if we could return back but how could i return without seeing ARR??? Then after
sometime the whole crowd roared, and someone shouted, SEE ARR ON STAGE!!!
YEAH!!!!GOSH THE MAN
HIMSELF..... he was there with usual smile and asking us to calm down and
whatever is the condition, he will play music for us and he kept his promise.
The concert for reduced for 2 and half hrs almost and in the ending again it
started raining badly. When ARR was signing vandematram the whole crowd went
mad. I too was not on earth dat time, somewhere in air singing (shouting,
screaming) with ARR and den he said thanks for listening and a final goodbye to
crowd. After saying all he stood on the stage staring back at the crowd. He
must be wondering that what's making people standing there in that heavy
downpour. I remember him standing there with a smile and then my friend pulled
me to go back. I didn't want to go back. I wanted to be there but as the rain
was getting angry on us, i was pulled back somehow. But my eyes never left him
till we reached the point from where stage wasn't visible... Wonderful
experience.. .
It was the end of my Engg days when I came across a group called Yahoo ARR Fan
Group and there I met fellow Rahmaniacs and found out that my craziness for ARR
is not only a single example in this world. There are lakhs of people . I met
wonderful people there. I got my second family there. I was never this much
happy before, Now i can express my views on ARR and people are there to
understand and enjoy them. Finally i feel as a river which started from a small
place and finally met the Sea. I got a job in Chandigarh (near my hometown) but
it was impossible for me to stay away from South India. ARR has injected
something in my blood. So I came back.. Well, now the time has come in my life,
where I am not only supposed to admire South Indian culture but also to accept
it . Am little scared but actually happy about it ... Recently I got an
opportunity to be a part of ARR fan's Independence day celebrations with the
kids of an orphanage. I never felt so
content in my life before. Spending time with those kids was an unforgettable
day of my life. Now just one wish is left in my heart. If i could see and meet
ARR personally. I want to see the man who has dominated my life for such a long
time, who is actually a part of every big decision i take in my life. I want to
see how different does he look from how i see him in my dreams. I want to thank
him for all the colors he has brought in my life. He doesn't even know how he
has changed the destiny of my life. I wish i could thank him personally and
could tell him, my life wouldn't have been so beautiful without your music.
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Neetika
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