I wrote with a bit of Anxiety as I dint know how the fans will react. Wow,Rahman fans so matured am glad its that way. I dint meant to tell "Rahman" to respect the audience. I represented it incorrectly and I apologise for the typo. I meant to tell the "Organisers" to respect the spectators. Rahman, like I said is probably one celebrity I can think of in India who is more innocent, humble and sweet as honey than Sachin Tendulkar.
He repeatedly thanked people for taking so much effort to come so far to listen to him. Having said that, I stand by my observations. For a charity show, the audience does its part by buying the "donor passes". In many cases free passes seem to outnumber the bought ones. They need not have to put up with "in-your-face advertising" which happend at Chennai show. Better organizing is needed. Rahmans humility should hopefully rub of the organizers and they should quit using words like "world class". The spectators should say its world class not them! Greed for money makes them sell as many tickets than they can offer good viewing services for. To Rahman, certainly don't repeat songs so many times. The Azeem-o-Shan Shenshah- Rukmani-Veerapandiya combo is beaten to death. We need more innovation. Die-hard fans would love to hear little gems that might not have made an impact coz it may be part of a insignificant film. More of unplugged sessions please. Please dont move away from being there with your keyboard. We need you there on the stage with all the things that you do. Dont relegate your self to just singing..... Organisers need to ensure if not all, most of the "star" singers are available for future shows. The Chennai show was so parched of typical rahman regulars like KArthick, Srinivas, SPB, Sujatha, or even shankar mahadevan that it was like, playing songs based on singer availability rather than other way around. I am so happy to see regulars like Dinesh Vaidya(I read about him person from the Rahman ARmy at PUne show..), Vithur and Farshad respond positively. iucaa_hari --- In [email protected], Indmov Buff <indmovb...@...> wrote: > > Vijay, is that a hint at what we might have in the future?! ;) > P.S: We want to see Rahman at the Wembley stadium again! Please- I don't care > if it's a hopeless concert in terms of organising. I just want to see Rahman, > the Oscar winner perform for us. > > > --- On Tue, 10/11/09, vi...@... <vi...@...> wrote: > > From: vi...@... <vi...@...> > Subject: RE: [arr] Re: Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a > month > To: dnshvai...@... > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 10 November, 2009, 10:37 > > > > > > > >  > > > > > > > > > > Keep your fingers crossed..... .....:) > > > > -original message- > > Subject: [arr] Re: Chennai Jai Ho Concert - Hopeless - Analysed after a month > > From: "DineshVaidya" <dnshvai...@yahoo. co.in> > > Date: 10/11/2009 15:24 > > > > I agree with HARI's points. Even if Rahman is not directly involved in the > event organisation, being a person on whose name the entire event is staged, > he should be made aware of the feedback of the audience / fans. And if the > situation is beyond his control, I guess, he should not continue with the > present setup and go solo. > > > > To be honest, the audience / fans come to listen / see ARR and ARR alone..... > atleast that's what I and my family did in the Pune concert. If Rahman > decides to do simple 1-2 hour impromptu unplugged sessions with chosen few > artists and a simple orchestra, no fireworks, no dancing puppets and songs > which he and he alone wants to perform, I think that programme will be a > stupendous success and will not be a logistical nightmare for any event > organiser. > > > > And who can know the true worth of GURUJI than his own disciples, the > rahmaniacs ? So if Rahman starts a new trend of organising shows with local > band or artists / musicians from his fan group, I would wholeheartedly > support such a venture. This group has huge talent pool of musicians / > singers / sound engineers / remix specialists amongst us, why do we require > outsiders ? > > > > Best regards > > Dinesh Vaidya > > Pune > > > > --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, "iucaa_hari" <iucaa_hari@ ...> 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. >
