I had a chance to meet Rahmanji's sister Rehanaji. She shared a few incidents about thier childhoo days to me. Am sharing it here now,
Rehanaji said during schooldays Rahmanji was equally naughty as any other boy of that age. She and Rahmanji used to fight always for almost everything. She also said that there would be no oral fights ever. Everytime they fought they used to hit eachother. Rahmanji used to get more angryand fight woth her most of the time because whatever the minimum number of friends he had used to go and play with Rehanaji at once they returned from school. Because Rehanaji used to throw off her bags and go out to play after the school but our Rahmanji used to come home and sit with the Harmonium after school. She shared more expeiences about them playing indoor games. Rahmanji used to play only indoor games during his childhood. His most favourites were carrom board and chess. He used to win over Rehanaji everytime they played carrom. Even if Rehanaji was in a stronger position to win Rahmanji would win the game by taking out his coins from the board when Rehanaji does not know. Everytime Rahmanji cheated the game would finally end in a big clash and a fight as usual. Rehanaji shared this incident very happily. She said after 20 Rahmanji became more silent and involved himself fully into music all the time. She said there was a time when she used to advice him but times changed when she started learning more things from Rahmanji. She said they speak more about spiritualism and music nowadaya. I would really fail on my dity if I dont mention about the prayer she had in between the chat. She very plitely said she'll be back after her prayers and went for prayer. This shows the level of devotion to God in Rahmanji's family. She shared more experiences like the emotional way Rahmanji's songs are. She remembered a daybefore the audio release of the movie Karuthama. She had the audio cassette with her. That was the time when they were building their house. She had gone to the terrace alone to check the amount of work getting completed. She said she listened to Porale ponnu thaye at that time and unkowingly she had tears flowing down from her eyes. She says Rahmanji's songs always takes time to grow on you. She feels that all the MD's are getting inspired from the works of Rahmanji. She then remembered another incident about the recording session in Rahmanji's studio for the song Poovukenna Pottu from BOMBAY. There is a baby which smiles in the song. Rhamanji asked Rehanaji to record her daughters voice for it which was only 6 months old. She then brought her child and made her sit before the mike. The baby started laughing in the beginning but soon started to cry at the top of its voice and it never stopped. So Rahmanji had to record the cry. Rehanaji became very confused on what Rahmanji would do with a crying sound because the songs itself was "nee siricha deewana" but Rahmanji had changed the cry to laugh somehow and inserted it in the song. These were the few incidents she had shared with me. Am really grateful to God for giving me an oppotunity to meet someone from Rahmanji's family. Although i haven't met Rahmanji in person, I found myself very lucky to have met Rehanaji who made me feel very comfortable throughout. Thanks alot to her too. She also said gajini audio is soon to release. Sorry bros if it was too boring. Felt i should share it with everyone. Regards, Janardhanan R.
