He is an INDIAN and an excellent human being. What more is required !!! Lets not get too much into this. and divide ourselves.
MERA BHARAT MAHAAN On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:40 PM, mohd noor < [email protected]> wrote: > Just had a general question: Is Rahman a Malayalee, How authentic is > this claim? If he is which part of Kerala is his Native Place, Does anyone > of you Rahmaniacs have an answer? > > > --- On *Sun, 1/18/09, mohd noor <[email protected]>*wrote: > > From: mohd noor <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [arr] Good as gold > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 2:30 PM > > Just had a general question: Is Rahman a Malayalee, How authentic is > this claim? If he is which part of Kerala is his Native Place, Does anyone > of you Rahmaniacs have an answer? > > Regards, > > > --- On *Sun, 1/18/09, Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@yahoo. com>* wrote: > > From: Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@yahoo. com> > Subject: [arr] Good as gold > To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com > Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 8:10 AM > > Good as gold > Kaveree Bamzai > January 16, 2009 > Comment Print Email A A A Share > Over the past decade at least two people have made an industry of their > Hollywood careers: > Shekhar Kapur who can talk anyone to sleep on this subject and Aishwarya > Rai who has turned > down more roles from Will Smith than she has acted in international movies. > So it is apt that a > little man who looks like a genial garden gnome and is as ferociously > talented as he is > unfailingly self-effacing, is enjoying the sort of global acclaim that has > eluded so many big > talkers and pushy splashers. > > Allah Rakha Rahman sings his tune > Allah Rakha Rahman, a Malayalee Muslim who was born a Hindu and has been > playing professionally > since the age of 11, fulfils two of the most important criteria for success > in my book. One is > of doing whatever you do best for at least 10,000 hours in a lifetime, the > golden mean that > Malcolm Gladwell shows in his new book Outliers is the hallmark of > successful people. > The other is humility, a lesson the late Randy Pausch says he learnt quite > early on his life. > In The Last Lecture, he speaks of how he once complained to his mother > about a particularly > difficult graduate class. "We know how you feel, honey," his mother said. > "When your father was > your age, he was fighting the Germans." > > This is not to suggest that winning a Golden Globe or perhaps an Oscar is > anywhere close to > winning a war, but there are wonderful things to learn from Rahman's story. > Look at the > barriers he has broken: first in Bollywood which regards talent from the > south with the disdain > reserved for the underclass. And then in the rest of the world, which has > gone from using his > songs in end credits to giving him a movie of his own. > > It's not been easy. While Rahman's Bombay Dreams did fairly well at the > West End, it faltered > on Broadway and pretty much the same fate befell the Toronto staging of the > Lord of the Rings > musical, of which he was co-composer. But he hasn't let it affect his > enthusiasm for trying > something new. > > Bollywood, which has immediately claimed Rahman as its own, hasn't always > been kind to him. It > finds the Mozart from Madras too exacting and demanding. I remember a > particularly rueful > comment from him at an awards function in Singapore where he acknowledged > an award for Lagaan > but noted how Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham's soundtrack seemed far more popular. > > Rahman has also followed a principle that few talented individuals adhere > to. Which brings me > to the other Pausch lesson: If you want to achieve your dreams, you had > better learn to work > and play well with others. Indeed, Rahman's newly set-up music conservatory > and his unique > ability to pick gloss from dross makes him an institution builder, not just > a professional > selfpromoter with a megaphone for a mouth. > > It's the kind of thing middle India needs to cling to right now with > another dream, built by an > apparent model of rectitude, B. Ramalinga Raju, crumbling before our very > eyes. > > http://indiatoday. digitaltoday. in/index. php?option= com_content& > issueid=89& task=view& id=25460& sectionid= 23&Itemid= > 1<http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&issueid=89&task=view&id=25460§ionid=23&Itemid=1> > > > > > -- regards, Vithur
