Hi everyone, I am a person who attended four A R Rahman concerts,
including the jai ho concert at cheyur. being a fan of A R Rahman from
roja, i felt i was let down for the first time by A R Rahman.Attending
concerts would be my only brake from work. as i work 7 days a week, and
i used to relish these experiences for years. i have yet not forgotten
how excited i was at his very first concert at chennai. the words of
vairamuthu and valli on stage is yet embedded in me. i was very proud
when valli said that after mgr it is only A R Rahman who could attract
huge crowds, which even this concert proved. the concert at Bangalore,
my hometown was even better one as i got closer to the stage, i dared
the heavy rain to stay amidst doubts of the show starting, i carried
back home a lot of good feelings and the best part was how A R R sang
azadi and then vandemataram in the same breadth, at that time i could
see my hero just a few feet away thanks to rain the front seats were
vacant.i also heard pray for me brother for the first time there. Rahman
promised bangalore another concert, which i am eagerly waiting for .
these two concerts were very special for me as then paying 1000 and 2500
for tickets was almost a months income of me then. The next one was this
year at calicut. this one too was great for me as i was attending his
concert after a long time and i could afford a 5000 Rs.ticket and travel
by car from bangalore listening to A R R's songs all the way. i enjoyed
the sdm songs and the malayalam song. it was nice as A R Rahman was
interacting with the crowd before few of the songs. i was so happy to
watch the fireworks after the concert.
This time i felt i was let down for the first time as i felt A R Rahman
did not connect to the crowds that well. and it was almost a replay of
calicut concert. i felt he spoke very less and most of it in english.
very few tamil songs were performed, to be exact 12 out of 34 including
snehidhane which was sung in three languages, its not that i din't like
his hindhi songs but at that place hindhi songs were not enjoyed by the
crowd, it makes a lot of difference. i noticed in the 5000 section when
fiqurana was sung not many knew which song is that. just imagine if he
had started the show with Anbe..Aaruyire, how the crowd would have
reacted to the words "naam iruvarum saerum samayam nam kaigaLil varum
imayam naam thottadhu edhuvum amaiyum idhu anbaal iNaindha idhayam idhu
anbaal iNaindha idhayam'.. it would have been out of the world. songs
like Ellaappugazhum, muquabula, saregame,Oruvan Oruvan Modhaladi, would
have been great at this venue. my disappointment was not only with the
song list it was also how A R Rahman spoke on stage, there was a sense
of urgency in his talks and he some how din't speak much in Tamil, which
din't go down well with the crowd. one more thing which really irritated
me was how our national flag was disgraced by many people, i saw a
person cleaning his nose with the flag and another using the flag to
absorb sweat, few children sweeping the ground with them, i informed
couple of organizers in the 5000Rs section about it, but they din't take
it up , finally i had yell at these people to stop misusing the flag. I
hope the some one brings this to the notice of A R Rahman and ask the
organizers of his concerts to not to distribute flags in the concerts
anymore. for the first time i felt A R Rahaman is moving away from me,
which is very tough to digest for me who has lived life on his movies,
his words( preaching), and his thoughts. I do not know why i am feeling
like this. may be the flag thing irritated me just before the show or
my expectations were very high, or even the fact i had very recently
attended the calicut concert. but last two days is horrible for me, i
dint go to work to today. i am feeling restless, and not abel to come to
terms with this let down. only i know that A R Rahman means to me,he is
not just a music artist for me, he is much more to me. he is the reason
is lifetime.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">i wanted to share these thoughts to somebody and feel a
bit lighter, but it is a very difficult thing to share it with my family and
friends. i believe most of you here would understand what this
feeling is about, please reply if any one has a remedy for
this.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif">Thank you </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">GOD bless A R R.</font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Truth is the only GOD</font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Humanity is the
only religion</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Love is the only prayer</font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Madhusudhan.</font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica,
sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></span>
