Extra-ordinarily Superb Neetika... i was not able to move my eyes from this post.. Everything u wrote was running in my mind-screen like a movie.. I had lot of work to do,but still i spared few minutes to complete ur story.. Really really Superb.. U learnt tamil ah... Good.. This shows how much u r crazy on ARR. Expecting more posts from u Neetika
With Regards, Syed > ________________________________ > From: Neetika raina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 3 November, 2008 11:48:33 AM > Subject: Re: [arr]My message for ARR > > > >> as this should be forwarded to ARR himself..... .. > > OMG!!!! I am so much thankful to u all for giving so much of love and respect > to my write up. I was afraid of posting these kinda writeups fearing i might offend someone or wat if someone laughs at my crazyness but thankyou so much for the appreciation. It has given me confidence to be more loud about my bond with ARR world... > It gives me immense happiness if someone could see reflection of their own feelings in this post. > Thanks > > ~Love Music Love Life > Neetika > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> > To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:30:03 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi > Subject: Re: [arr]My message for ARR > > I feel that something as heartfelt and emotional as this should be > forwarded to ARR himself without revealing his email ID, etc. > > --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, || V i s h w e s h || > <Vishwsant@ ..> wrote: > > > > Wow!!! What a heartfelt write-up, Neetika... gave me goose bumps as > if I'm listening to a beautiful a r r melody. > > > > Thank you... > > > > Regards, > > Vishwesh. > > > > "à The search is more important than the destination " - a r rahman - > > > > --- On Sat, 18/10/08, Neetika raina <ariazzz@ > wrote: > > From: Neetika raina <ariazzz@ > > > Subject: [arr]My message for ARR > > To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com > > Date: Saturday, 18 October, 2008, 9:55 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 "Jammuâ. 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 whatâs 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 didnât 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 wasnât 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 doesnât > even know how he has changed the destiny of my life. I wish i could > thank him personally and could tell him, my life wouldnât have been > so beautiful without your music. > > > > THANK YOU SO MUCH > > > > > > > > Neetika > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Recent Activity > > > > > > à 58 > > New Members > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Visit Your Group > > > > > > > > > > > > Need traffic? > > Drive customers > > With search ads > > on Yahoo! > > > > Find helpful tips > > for Moderators > > on the Yahoo! > > Groups team blog. > > > > Yahoo! Groups > > Discover healthy > > living groups and > > live a full life. > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Explore your hobbies and interests. Go to > http://in.promos. yahoo.com/ groups/ > > > > -- > Hyundai to launch the i20 in India. 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