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KOLKATA: Come Saturday, and music lovers are in for a star-studded
treat. A R Rahman will be in town with an entourage that reads like the
who's-who
of Bollywood playback music. The winner of two Oscars has some great
plans up his sleeves, and helping him conjure a magical evening at the
Yuba Bharati Krirangan will be some of the country's best singers
Sadhana Sargam, Hariharan, Javed Ali, Rashid Ali, Shweta Pandit and
Nitin Mohan, not to mention renowned percussionist Sivamani.
The
thousands of Rahman fans who will turn up for the evening are certain
to be mesmerized at the concert organised by the Liver Foundation, West
Bengal, which will build a liver hospital in the city from the proceeds
of the ticket sales. During a trip to Kolkata on October 13, his first
to the city since winning the Oscars, the music genius signed guitars
which will be auctioned off within a few days. The revenue so raised,
too, will be spent on building the hospital. Most paintings and
portraits creations of Liver Foundation vice-president Kalyan Bose that
Rahman signed during that visit have been auctioned at a gala dinner.
"Rahman told me that my painting of a mother holding a girl to her
chest was the one he loved the most. Among the 18 paintings, 13 were
auctioned and fetched around Rs 25 lakh. The remaining will also be
auctioned after the concert on November 14. A special portrait of
Rahman, painted by Bose, will be presented to Rahman. "Painting is
something that I enjoy. It is my hobby as well as passion. What could
have been better than my paintings being auctioned to raise funds for a
cause and make our dreams come true?" he said. The three-hour programme
details have been kept under wraps, with Rahman deciding to surprise
the audience with a few new compositions.
At the press
conference on October 13, Rahman had said that the Jai Ho concert will
form a part of his nationwide chain of concerts that has already been
taken to Calicut, Pune and Chennai. "A unique project has been taken up
by the Liver Foundation and I am glad to be part of it. The
organization has a great aspiration to serve the society," he had said.
Rahman fever
His Music ~ My Mother Tongue
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