Aparna’s Blog

As I was hurriedly getting ready to leave for work today morning, my mom asked me if I saw in the Metro Plus about the programme that was going to be held at Narada Gana Sabha. Thinking it would be some concert of Sanjay/T.M.Krishna, I went and took the Metro Plus from her and what did I see?!! A.R.Rahman is going to release the new CD of Ganesh & Kumaresh titled ‘Carnatic Chills’ on Saturday!!!!!! You should know how excited I must have got! So, right after I reached office, I forgot all my work and called up the number given in the ad. The person who answered said that passes (free passes) would be available from 10 a.m. today at Narada Gana Sabha. When I called up NGS at 10, they said they had no clue about it! I called up the number given in the ad once again and he said he was on his way to the venue taking the passes with him and the passes would most probably be available in the evening too. But, how could I take a risk and wait till the evening to get the passes when it involved a chance of getting to see A.R.Rahman in person? My sister finally managed to get the passes in the afternoon. I just hope Rahman does come on Saturday. I am not ready for another disappointment. (Neither did Rahman come during the Global Rhythms concert at Saarang nor did the show live up to my expectations) Rahman, please do come on Saturday!

Here’s a lovely photo of the moon appearing yellow in colour, taken by my sister when she went to the beach on ECR on Sunday:

As I had written earlier, I got hooked on to Rahman’s Spirit of Unity Concert title music a few months back. This programme is being re-telecast on DD on Sundays at 10.30 am for quite sometime now. Apart from the first one which I got from A.R.Rahman’s Yahoo Group, I recorded all others recently. I thought I would share it with all the readers of my blog.

(I don’t know why this one is getting played in a fast tempo like this. Can anyone please help me?).
This is the one that comes in the beginning of the programme, before a female voice starts saying the words, ‘Welcome to the Spirit of Unity Concerts’.

These two come at the end of the programme (I recorded these on two different days).


I have uploaded these in Rapidshare.com. In case any of you are interested, here are the links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/14832199/Spirit_of_Unity.mp3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/14832283/spirit_of_unity1.mp3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/14831548/SoU_-_2.mp3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/14832023/SOU-Title.mp3.html

P.S.: Thanks to this post by Ranjhith, I came to know about the embedded audio feature of Wordpress.com

The one road on which I like travelling in the evenings is the Adyar Bridge. If you are someone who likes to see sunrise  or sunset, then you must surely travel by the Adyar Bridge at around 6 pm. The sun appearing like an orange ball, the sky in myriad hues of pink and its reflection on the water! Wow! Thank God water is there atleast in Adyar river!

This is what someone had searched for in Google and my blog comes up as a result for that. I wanted to see what other results came up for this search term. That’s where I came across this interview with Srinivas that Prabhu has mentioned in this post.
Coming back to the question, I have attempted to answer it here. One thing about most of Rahman’s songs is that you would never have heard anything like that before! So, naturally it might take sometime to like that song. Take for example, some of Harris Jeyaraj’s songs like Oru Nadhi (Samurai), Mudhal Mudhalai (Laysa Laysa) and Kadhalikkum Aasai (Chellamey), don’t they all sound similar? (No offense meant to any HJ fans out there. I too like these songs.) The point I am trying to make is since we had already liked and enjoyed one of these songs, the moment we listen to the others, though we say that they sound similar we do like it immediately. That is not the case with Rahman’s music.
Now speaking as a Rahmaniac, I will listen to a Rahman’s song till I like it! I strongly believe that the man who gave us songs like Chinna Chinna Aasai, Dil Se Re, etc. would never give something that is not good. So, if I don’t like a song the first time, I will keep on listening to it and will eventually find Rahman’s magic in it. So it’s not that we don’t like some of Rahman’s songs the first time we listen to it, it’s just that it takes some time for the music to grow on you.
Rahman Rocks!!!!