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Vote 'Adi Rakkamma' for World's Top Ten for BBC! Click here!

Topic started by Vijay Venkatram J (@ 203.145.160.235) on Mon Nov 11 11:08:23 EST 2002.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

Dear Friends,

Let us vote for 'Adi Rakkamma' from THALAPATHI as our choice for the World's Top Ten Songs poll conducted by BBC!

I am suggesting this song because if in case the BBC people listen to the nominated songs, they will feel knocked out on hearing our Maestro's 150 Vioins' Strings Ensemble!

Let us all do it at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/features/topten/

Yours Always Musically,
Vijay.

Maestro Ilaiyaraaja Fans Club at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilaiyaraaja

RaajaNGAHM at http://www.raajangahm.com/members.html

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Responses:

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• From: Are Yaar (@ 203.115.31.67) on: Fri Dec 20 23:54:37 EST 2002
  
  VM at 2 might not be entirely an ARR album but the it seems they play there on ARR VM. Also all the fight here was happening only on ARR/IR name. Many IR fans didn't vote VM because they thought it is by ARR. Now tell me, as an Indian had we voted for VM as a national song then we wouldn't have seen the day where the paki b*****d stands just behind us holding a gun.
  
  
• From: Prabhu (@ 210.210.62.108) on: Sat Dec 21 02:38:50 EST 2002
  
  Digression:
  curses, Lords la kooda kalladi ah? Thiruthave mudiyaadhappa ungala!!
  Britto: AY 1-0-24-0(struck for 3 sixes by suresh in his only over!)
  
  suresh, poll is over! pls come out of your self-imposed exile!
  
  
• From: curses (@ 219.65.108.63) on: Sat Dec 21 09:52:56 EST 2002
  
  Ungala???
  naanga Chennai crowd!! Acknowledged the most respectable crowd in the world!!
  I meant throwing stones at this BBC poll! And see what happenned!! I was RIGHT!
  
  
• From: curses (@ 219.65.108.63) on: Sat Dec 21 09:53:46 EST 2002
  
  and yeah..
  sorry about the extra punctuation marx! ;)
  
  
• From: fyi (@ 68.97.170.181) on: Sat Dec 21 11:25:20 EST 2002
  
  Listen to the Top 10 recording here:
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/ram/wrightworld.rpm
  
  
• From: Guru (@ 129.49.81.25) on: Sat Dec 21 18:25:45 EST 2002
  
  Just to clear my ignorance...is this an indian song?? sounds like it......plz clarify
  
  Number 7.Reetu haruma timi hariyali basant hau nadihruma timi pabitra ganga hau, Arun Thapa
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.147.84) on: Sat Dec 21 22:02:06 EST 2002
  
  Prabhu,
  final score thaan enna.....pls update! :) ... keepin i mind india lost by 4 wkts! :D
  
  
• From: BBC Politics (@ 205.188.208.37) on: Sun Dec 22 01:13:52 EST 2002
  
  if yall notice, first 3 songs came from nowhere because rakkama was keeping at first. I doubt people cared to vote for vande matarm or any other patirotic themes. So this exercise was cooked up by BBC just to show empathy to Pakistan and Ireland. Why I say, no Irish really cares about the BBC! But, BBC also owes to American audiences because earliest settlers arer Irish, W. Bush is alos or Irish descent if I am not mistaken, Clinton is and much of America's contempt of Britain (as you see in Hollywood filsm) is because Ireland has been made a mess by Britain.
  
  
• From: BBC Politics (@ 205.188.208.37) on: Sun Dec 22 01:20:50 EST 2002
  
  if yall notice, first 3 songs came from nowhere because rakkama was keeping at first. I doubt people cared to vote for vande matarm or any other patirotic themes. So this exercise was cooked up by BBC just to show empathy to Ireland and Pakistan. Why I say is, no Irish really cares about the BBC tv or radio! But, BBC also owes to American audiences because there is a large ethnic Irish. Earliest settlers arer Irish, W. Bush is also of Irish descent if I am not mistaken, Clinton is. Much of America's contempt of Britain (as you see in Hollywood films, eg.. Patriot Games) is because Ireland has been made a mess by Britain.
  
  If you see for non-patriotic songs, Rakkamma stands first. At present, BBC does not want to show that some extraordinary Indian is top of the pops or even acknowledge the fact that there is a composer far ahead of anyone they know. I think they are downplayin it. So, we just got to wait and see what next. But, i feel IR' music does not need publicity or propaganda, when it happens that is it, man.....
  
  
• From: Prabhu (@ 203.94.239.183) on: Sun Dec 22 02:45:38 EST 2002
  
  When the poll was in its infancy, BBC had conceded that majority of the polls were from India. That being the case, from which high heaven did that Irish song drop in? That too a song which was never in the reckoning for the top 10.
  It is quite clear that this was a shameful exercise for BBC to indulge in shenanigans of the highest order. First, they dismissed off the top songs with typical indifference. Soon, they went on to remove the result chart. And finally they come up with this contrived result. BBC stooped to conquer!
  
  
• From: Prabhu (@ 203.94.239.183) on: Sun Dec 22 02:47:23 EST 2002
  
  C~P, curses:
  Does the result really matter?
  Coz the match referee was none other than Mike Denness!
  ;-)
  
  
• From: curses (@ 219.65.109.195) on: Sun Dec 22 02:55:03 EST 2002
  
  Yeah!
  He accused us of tampering! :)
  
  
• From: Palani Kumar (@ 195.226.230.37) on: Sun Dec 22 03:21:36 EST 2002
  
  Glad to see rakkamma song as No. 4 on the world top ten songs. A new site is born for rakkamma song and Maestro at http://www.rakkamma.com
  
  Watch out for more Songs, BGMs etc., in the future.
  
  
• From: WN (@ 203.24.100.132) on: Sun Dec 22 05:27:01 EST 2002
  
  Guys, r u kidding? Why wud BBC want to show empathy to an Irish song tat goes "A Nation Once Again"? Isnt there a limit to tis? Actually there is a world out there bigger than ARR vs IR & the Irish have more reason to rig the polls for ANOA than any ARR or IR Fan. Why can't we jus accept it instead of coming up wit some conspiracy theory. And it's not as if VM or RKT were 100% true & genuine votes.
  
  
• From: OISG (@ 193.188.97.152) on: Sun Dec 22 08:13:23 EST 2002
  
  BBC Politics
  
  Could this be a joint operation by CIA & IRA ?What are Mossad s views on this?Is it true Blair wanted Cliff s song but Maggie & Major still playing backroom politics just pushed this song forward to buy peace from Belfast to emabarass Tony.
  
  Do you really think Powell could be involved?Is Kissinger s resignation something to do with this poll?
  
  
  
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.180.7) on: Sun Dec 22 09:04:09 EST 2002
  
  Prabhu,
  ya dats true.....and the umpire daryll harper accused us of chucking! :)
  mayb the referee shud be changed......some1 might get their first ever century only to learn that the match wasnt official! :D
  see.....OISG has got some valid points too...mm....sumthin fishy! :)
  
  
• From: Thengai Cheenuboss (@ 205.188.208.37) on: Sun Dec 22 13:08:43 EST 2002
  
  OISG:
  
  aaaman saar, are u Karan Thapar? athey istyle athey enthooswasam, athey coorocity, athey athey. orediya labokunnu kelvi meley kelvi kekkiringeley athaan.
  
  
• From: kk (@ 172.150.30.191) on: Sun Dec 22 13:44:34 EST 2002
  
  how stupid can we get?. First similar fools made amitabh the actor of the millenium!. Email and forum campaign for rigging polls is a shame. Be it IR fans or any fans, playing the national card. You guys were fooled by another ireish group. Now VM stands with songs like 'poovum nakuthu ...'. It deserves much better treatment guys.
  
  
• From: Poove Poochoodava (@ 205.188.208.37) on: Sun Dec 22 13:57:07 EST 2002
  
  kk, poovum nadunguthu is a patriotic song, so most patriotic themes are featured except rakkamma, though it is a patriotic theme for IR fans. poovum nikithu is a good tune and it is the words not the music that matters. i am all for poovum nakuthu as one of top ten, which also came overnite like the Irish song. if only poovum nesikuthu toppled the Irish song, we could've rejoiced for a Tamil song as no.1 even though Srilankan' Tamils themselves may not have heard of this song.
  
  But, Prabhu has the complete insight into this Steven Written poll
  
  
• From: shankar (@ 67.216.203.91) on: Sun Dec 22 20:10:52 EST 2002
  
  Hey....10 days back ,"Rakkamma" was at NO.1 position with more than 50% of votes. Iam really
  surprised to see it No.4 now.
  
  Also the funniest part is that BBC has mentioned "Thalapathi" is a remake of "God Father"
  
  hahaha
  
  
• From: malar (@ 204.27.156.146) on: Mon Dec 23 11:45:34 EST 2002
  
  aren't we all upset over nothing........I agree we all voted for our song...we wanted our own song to top the list........just 'cos VM or RKT didn't top, how does it affect our patriotism......if BBC can let Amitabh win, why wont they let RKT or VM......if we can rig the poll, why not Pakistanis? guys aren't we taking it too far? it just music and our favorite music director......it is just a measure of poll rigging....it is not a measure of patriotism....that is a different issue needs to be shown differently..............
  
  
• From: updates requested from raaja.com (@ 64.12.96.72) on: Mon Dec 23 16:00:39 EST 2002
  
  Has Raajangahm.com can share any info since Nov 21 to the web site. Maybe they the admin has a lot of info about who enquired, no. of hits on the web site , on the song etc...
  
  
• From: Maverick (@ 192.128.133.68) on: Mon Dec 23 17:05:23 EST 2002
  
  Here we go again.....It is not over yet !! We can still have some fun.
  
  Choose Your Album Of The Year
  Category :Music -> Easy & Soundtracks
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/easy/albumofyear.shtml#vote
  
  and chk out ARR's Bombay Dreams review at http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/easy/reviews/arrahman_bombay.shtml
  
  Results will be out in January
  
  
• From: Maverick (@ 192.128.133.68) on: Mon Dec 23 17:19:38 EST 2002
  
  I guess someone should advise CNN.com to come up with a similar poll like this BBC one. Someone can explain them about the number of hits that BBC got during the poll and convince them. And all ARR & IR fans would have a list of 'Lessons Learnt' this time :-))
  
  
• From: wnosigay (@ 172.179.33.170) on: Mon Dec 23 18:28:34 EST 2002
  
  Hey,
  WN & AY....
  you are expected to pat OSIG's back after his profound post(that's what he thinks ...heheheheh). where are you?? please pat his back na....otherwise he is going to wait forever quite dejected by the lack of response from the 'MUTUAL ADMIRATION" society....hahhahhahahha
  
  
• From: WN-OSIG-AY (@ 172.179.33.170) on: Mon Dec 23 18:36:56 EST 2002
  
  Well YES..
  here we go,
  
  let us all vote for BOMBAY DREAMS. our patriotism should win this time. We have to have an INDIAN album on top atleast this time. Please lets not split votes between ARR's Vande Mataram and Bombay Dreams. We have to do this this time atleast..... please... IRFANS and ARRFANS lets get together once and put BD on top.... an humble request????
  
  

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