Is this the first ARR concert that u are attending ? Do you mean to say ARR doesnt respect the Audience ???? Thats a sin to say like that. Pls refrain from using such words.. You may have to repent later..
There is no artist like ARR. (well, you may be right with certain other points...). In my opinion, the CAR PARK was very fine. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM, iucaa_hari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I paid 2000 Rs of my hard earned money to watch this show. I am huge AR > Rahman fan and have seen two more of his live shows. > I am used to the substandard level of service that is offered in India. Any > kind of service. We don't have proper facilities anywhere in this country to > hold an event together for any number more than twenty thousand people. For > example Internation Cricket matches played in India. Have you been to any? > No stadium in India can boast of a descent parking facility for ten thousand > cars(now if you have a stadium for 50K people you would need it right?). TO > be able to park conviniently and to take it of and leave easily itself is > not possible. Let alone expect reserved seating, hygienic and versatile top > of the line snacks and toilet facilities. All this for the richest > cricketing body in the world. > > Now coming back to the AR Rahman show, the organisers are purely cashing in > on AR Rahman's market to make money. Rapport Global thinks that if the Stage > and the SOund is good(sound has always had a problem, since the my first > show in 2004) then they are world class. Its just a plug-in-plug-out stage > and organiser needs to understand that stage alone does not determine if the > show is "world class". > > I have a few questions proping up in my mind. > (1) For a Brand like Rahman why do you need to coloborate with MARG to > donate funds for AR Rahman foundation and Sakhti Foundation. > Even if Rahman had done the show directly for Shakthi, the money would have > come. Was collaborating with MARG so essential, taking 50K odd people for a > 12 hour pacakage(total time to travel to-and-fro). > > (2) People pay money for the event that is promised. Not to see MARG > advertising it self to 50K tired people(remember we are told no water > bottles allowed but later everybody seemed to have one and people like me > who adhere to ruled were idiots). When the program was promised to start at > 6:30 PM why dint they start atleast after the MARG PR excercise. From 7:00 > to 7:25 people were sitting like idiots. Tired and Hungry. > > (3) Extremely unproffessional not to have a Anchor for a show of this > magnitude. Imagine 50 K people waiting and there is no show anchor, no > introduction to songs, singers. Shocking. > Most of the Junta dint know that AR was singing Fiqrana or what. Please > organise more professionally. Introduce singers and Pieces. Treat the > audience with respect. > > (4) The way back was another chaos with buses waiting in queque to leave > the areana. The wait was for more than an hour. People sitting on the floor > of the bus and what not. I reached home at 3 AM. Can't See a good reason why > only MARG could do this. > > (5) The barricades dont work!!! I paid for my ticket but I sat or rather > stood with people who dont seem to have paid or many of the people with 300 > hundred rupee tickets landed in this part of the arena. The screens were not > clear at all. > > That for the arrangments, to the music part. This sequence of songs has > already been heard t the Times of India launch in Chennai Last year. The > "Jaage hain" start and move to Khal Bali. Unless you have a fresher approach > what was the need to do the same thing again. If Rahman wants to mix songs > and does not want the language to be barrier that is great. ALthough many > complained about Telugu(was it a dress rehearsal for the Hyd show?) and > Hindi songs being played to a largely tamil audience, am ok as long as they > take you thru the song by introducing it and taking people along. Certainly > not the way it was done. Mr. Rahman has also moved away from the keyboards > to being only a singer on the show. He dint seem as intersted as his earlier > shows. But very kind and generouse himself. Did the backup singing for Maula > when Javed ALi was singing and also wished everyone a safe journey back > home. > > I am just as big a AR Rahman fan as many of you. But dissapointed by the > quality of the show. In online to Rahman if you are listening "respect the > audience". > > If gopal or any other Rahman Army people are listening to this. Try to > change a few things. > > > -- regards, Vithur
