Sooper share Mugilan! Thanks! Great to know this! ARR's music is available to all those who are willing!
Love, Adi. PS: We met during Bangalore concert, remember? At the gate?! :-) 2009/3/2 Mugilan Jeyaraman <[email protected]> > Good Thoughts Chord. I completely agree. > > However, I guess, I have been really lucky in this regard :) > > The biggest ARR fan and the closest to me is my dad. He brought a Tape > Recorder during the time Genteman was released. That was my first ever > cassette. He bought it after he liked the songs. > > However, the next cassette we bought was Kizhaku Cheemayilae and it was on > the day of the audio release. He brought it home with a lot of excitement I > still clearly remember. With the song on side A starting "Athaiku > piranthavalae", I remember the smiling approvals we gave each other :) > > We still treasure all those audio cassettes. Infact for most of them, I can > recollect the day we had bought it and the initial feedback we shared. > > During my school days, it was always my dad who tracked the audio release > dates and kept coming home with the 1st day release cassettes. After I moved > to chennai, I slowly took over, thanks to the Internet and > arrahmanfans.com :) > > He still listens to most of his music. He loved Chinnamma > Chillakama(Meenaxi). He loved O Saya from Slumdog! > > No Surprise, the first person I called after ARR won the oscars was my Dad. > He was at his school. He is a teacher. Luckily he was in a break so I didnt > have to wait to share the news :) > > Sorry abt a long mail. Somehow, whatever Chord shared, made me nostalgic > about all the good times :) Thanks for reading. > > Regards, > Mugilan. > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Chord <[email protected]> wrote: > >> After reading Jagjit Singh's, Pyarelal's and Ali Khan's comments about >> ARR and his music, it also struck me the big generational differences >> in terms of attitudes and exposure towards music. Personally, I have >> found that even with people I know, like my parents and their friends, >> their appreciation for music is within a narrow range. Anything >> outside that range is overlooked and not appreciated as much, and >> sometimes ridiculed. I have found that amongst many elders, there is >> a certain arrogance or haughtiness implying, "we know what's best". >> This is a product of our culture revering elders and their wisdom by >> tradition in contrast to many seniors and elders feeling left out and >> disrespected by attitudinal changes in today's world reflecting less >> respect and reverie towards seniors. >> >> For example, when I gave my parents a copy of the D6 CD, they only >> liked the folk and semi-classical elements of the soundtrack. That's >> it. When I asked them about Jaane Tu, they said that they didn't like >> the music, although they love and appreciate ARR's other works that >> are more in line with their taste. Of course, even within elders, >> there will be a lot of variation in terms of taste and attitude, but >> overall, I feel that they are more narrow minded about music than we >> youngsters are OVERALL AS A GROUP, keeping in mind individual >> differences. Because ARR's music is so diverse and touching upon so >> many different genres, a large percentage of his work is not going to >> be appreciated by those with more narrow minded definitions of good >> music. >> >> Who knows, maybe when we reach that age, we too may reflect some of >> that narrow mindedness in terms of our exposure compared to what the >> youth may be listening to at that time. However, I have hope that >> because we youngsters have been exposed to such an array of world >> music through ARR and other artists, I think we will generally have a >> broader appreciation for music than previous generations. >> >> ARR has gifted us with something very important: tolerance and open >> mindedness for different types of music. Thank you ARR! >> >> > > -- "You are what your deepest desire is; As you desire, so is your intention; As your intention, so is your will; As is your will so is your deed; As is your deed, so is your destiny" -The Upanishads
