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ARR's LIVE concert in Long Island, NY

Topic started by Dorai (@ 216.217.47.130) on Mon Sep 25 10:01:44 EDT 2000.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

Folks,
I had been to ARR's Live concert in Long Island, NY. Apart from 2 or 3 songs out of a total of around 25 to 30 songs all the Music was DEFINETLY played from tracks. ARR had hired musicians locally (ie., in the US) to make such a drama or what???.

Its totally a pity to see a established MD to trick and fool people with track music played in live shows. He should have tried to bring the real live music from his troop whether it comes out good or bad.

I saw most of the foreign musicians idle most of the time and the good part about it is that they did not pretend to play music as opposed to their Indian counterparts who were pretending all thro the show.

Any more obervations are welcome.

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• From: Sasikumar (@ 138.15.102.97) on: Thu Sep 28 14:11:04 EDT 2000
  
  Kumar,
  
  Out of tamil songs you have listed,
  song no. 2,6,7,8 & 9 are completely sung.
  Others are eye wash to the tamil audience.
  Hope you like that.:-);
  
  I know this is not a fault by AR Rahman. It is because of the organizer. However we are the one who got disappointed.
  
  
• From: rajaG (@ 207.43.195.201) on: Thu Sep 28 14:37:51 EDT 2000
  
  Sasikumar: I think the list (with some full thamizh and some part thamizh) is still skewed quite heavily in favor of thamizh considering that the show was not meant to be an "exclusively Tamil show". You definitely cannot make the extension that saree = tamil or chudidhaar kameez = not tamil. And jusging by the ticket prices ranging upto $150, namma makkaL avvaLavu dhaaraaLamaa wallet a thirakka maattaangaLey nnu sandhEgam varadhu:-)
  
  
• From: Sasi (@ 138.15.102.97) on: Thu Sep 28 14:58:14 EDT 2000
  
  rajaG,
  
  Pls read my comments properly.
  I have not used anywhere that chudidhaar kameez = not tamil. chudidhaar kameez now everyone wears, but sarees for ar rahman show, not surely by north indian. North Indians wear sarees during some important accasions and not just like that..Only south indians will wear frequently. Being AR as tamilian it could be tamilians more than any other south indians over there.
  
  The show could have properly organized by alternative songs of tamil and hindi. Then it would have not been so paining. but playing hindi non stop from the 3rd song to till 11:30pm and finally few basibulla bath songs are not so good for the tamil audience.
  
  
• From: uNmai viLambi (@ 198.73.152.100) on: Thu Sep 28 15:30:54 EDT 2000
  
  One should NOT blame ARR!!
  
  No! Never!!
  
  One should blame 'God'. Since ARR directs all the glory to God, we should direct the blame to the one and the same God.
  
  Please spare the organizers.
  
  avanga paavam.
  
  intha viskitta vachchu oru naalu kaasu sambaathikka paaththaanga. intha puyal payal ennadaanna, ellaam reeecard meesickaa poottu tholachittaan.
  
  thupaayla enna nadanthathu ennu therinchum, kaasa kottinathu neenga. ippo poi ethukku yaar yaar melayo paLi sumathareenga?
  
  
  
• From: Ravi (@ 147.4.253.253) on: Thu Sep 28 16:24:13 EDT 2000
  
  Kumar :
  
  Good job on coming up with the list of Tamil and Hindi songs.
  Correct me if I am wrong, Hariharan also sang a Hindi song -- something that started with "Chanda...". Also, Sukhwinder did a medley of a few of his songs (Hindi) when something went wrong and ARR had to leave the stage for about ten minutes.
  
  There were many of ARR's great hits that could have been included, such as Bombay, especially since Chitra was one of the singers. Personally, I feel Chitra should have sung "Chinna Chinna AAsai" in Tamil, instead of having Sadana Sargam singing "Choti Choti Aasha" in Hindi, especially since ARR announced that the 'next song was his first song'. Technically, the Hindi version was not. I know I am nitpicking here.
  
  Ravi
  
  
• From: rajaG (@ 207.43.195.201) on: Thu Sep 28 17:15:05 EDT 2000
  
  Not my original compilation. pizhaigaLukku mannikkavum.
  
  Song list:
  01. The show started with a local percussion band, but ARR show
  started off with the song from Muthu - Oruvan oruvan...by SPB.
  02. Endrendrum punnagai... - Alaipayuthey, by Clinton, Srinivas and Devan.
  03. Kay sera... - Pukar, by Kavita Subramanian
  04. Dil hai Chotta Sa... - Roja, by Sadhna Sargam
  05. Musical Piece from Taal
  06. Ruth aa gayee re... - 1947 Earth, by Sukhwindra Singh, with extra intro by Rahman.
  07. Sunta hai... - Pukar, Kavita Subramanian.
  08. Roja janeman... - Roja, by SPB in both Tamil and Hindi.
  09. Rang de... - Thakshak, by Chitra.
  10. Nahin saamne... - Taal, by Hariharan.
  11. Enna sola poghira... - Kandukonden Kandukonden by Shankar Mahadevan.
  12. Chanda re... - Sapnay.
  13. Only Love - Bombay Dreams.
  14. Kehta hai mera... - Jeans, Kavita Subramanian.
  15. Snegidhane... - Alaipayuthey, by Sadhna Sargam.
  16. Ramta Jogi... - Taal, by Sukhwindra Singh.
  17. Taal se taal mila... -.Taal, by Udit Narayan.
  18. Chandralkeha... - Thiruda Thiruda, by Anupama, with new live intro by Rahman.
  19. Anjali anjali... - Duet, by SPB and Chitra.
  20. Kal nahin tha yeh... - Vishwavidata, by Sadhna Sargam.
  21. Nila kaigirathu... - Indira, by Hariharan.
  22. A brand new song by Kavita Subramanian. The song should be from one of ARR's forthcoming movies!
  23. Azhagana raatchasiye... - Mudhalvan, by SPB.
  24. Smayai... - Kandukonden Kandukonden, Devan.
  25. Thaniye... - Rhythm, by Shankar Mahadevan.
  26. Chaiyya chaiyya... - Dil se, by Sukhwindra Singh.
  27. Dil Se Re... - Dil se, unplugged Rahman LIVE!
  28. Taal se taal... - Taal, all new version, LIVE!
  29. Chand aaya hai Zameen pe... - Dil hi dil mein, by Udit Narayan.
  30. Ni mein samajh gaya... - Taal, by Sukhwindra Singh.
  31. Nahin saamne... - Taal, by Hariharan, Sukhwindra Singh and one more singer.
  32. Gurus of Peace (Rahman's ode to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
  33. The show ended with Maa tujhe salaam, by Rahman.
  
  
• From: VK (@ 156.153.255.195) on: Thu Sep 28 19:08:16 EDT 2000
  
  Hi,
  
  Aahhh? stage'la acting'a??
  wow! nalla velaya theriyardhey!!
  
  I am ready if A.R.R wants a keyboard player to act on stage. (ticket free'a kidaikkumaa?) :-)
  
  But going by the above posts,
  I know now, what to expect in SFO 2 weeks from now...
  
  Have a great weekend, y'all..
  
  
• From: adhO andha paravai la 3 para irukku (@ 208.24.179.201) on: Thu Sep 28 19:18:20 EDT 2000
  
  VK: neenga naduvu naduvula nijammaavEy vaasichchuduvELnu bayappadaradhaa kELvi:-)
  umakku traffic ticket thaan free yaa kidaikkum!
  
  
• From: chandy (@ 131.230.25.38) on: Thu Sep 28 19:27:41 EDT 2000
  
  Sasi :
  
  From the list of songs provided by you as well as rajaG, it doesnt look skewed. Even the Dubai not-so-live concert did have a mixture of hindi and tamil songs. IMO, there was a fair distribution of hindi and tamil numbers. But I do agree that fans of TeFM might have got disappointed.
  
  chandy
  
  
• From: VK (@ 156.153.255.195) on: Thu Sep 28 20:17:30 EDT 2000
  
  Hi RajaG,
  
  >adhO andha paravai la 3 para irukku
  
  seri, seri...
  pannara thappa innamO pannittaen.
  adha ippo kuthikkuthi kaamikaNuma ;-)
  
  BTW, P.Susheela and Mano are doing a program in the bay area, mid october.
  
  
  
• From: SL (@ 63.253.226.15) on: Thu Sep 28 22:23:37 EDT 2000
  
  VK, un programme-ukku ticket vikkara samayaththula thaan intha forum-ukku varaNuma...periya aaL thaan ya.......
  
  
• From: reporter (@ 205.189.94.54) on: Mon Oct 2 16:05:07 EDT 2000
  
  Well, the toronto show was sorta strange cuz mostly tamil people showed up but they had a lot of hindi songs lined up, maybe because ATN did the sponsoring. The tamil guys made a big fuss everytime tamil songs came on:-))
  
  
• From: chandy (@ 131.230.179.217) on: Tue Oct 3 02:34:54 EDT 2000
  
  A review of ARR's NY concert is available at latest vikatan. http://www.anandhavikatan.com/. (Look under the "Specials" section)
  
  
• From: rajaG (@ 208.24.179.202) on: Tue Oct 3 11:12:53 EDT 2000
  
  reporter: If ATN did the sponsoring then KJYesudas's melodies video la kaamichchiruppaangaLEy?:-)
  
  
• From: Kutty (@ 212.26.19.153) on: Wed Oct 4 12:23:36 EDT 2000
  
  Ravi, I saw your comment that Chithra would have
  sung the Tamil song "Chinna Chinna Aasai " from Roja."Chinna Chinna aasai" is a song sung by Minmini.Chithra has number of great and very popular songs to her own credit in various languages and I Personally feel there is no necessity for Chithra to sing a borrowed song of a contemporary artiste.
  
  
• From: kannaries (@ 205.227.43.17) on: Wed Oct 4 20:36:42 EDT 2000
  
  Chitra's most of the Kannada songs are Junk. Her memorable songs are very very less. And her recent song are unbearable and zero expression.(may be language problem,poor lady) We kannada people really missed Sushila and Janaki very much.God please save our kannada songs.
  
  
  
• From: Kutty (@ 212.26.19.153) on: Thu Oct 5 08:00:20 EDT 2000
  
  Mr.Kannaries,
  Saw your comment on Chithra. Are you aware Chithra
  is a singer who also has won a karnataka state award for the best female play back singer? This is only one of the numerous great awards she has won.Please try to remain unbiased while commenting
  about singers who have proved their worth over years.While a person is always welcome to express his personal likes and dislikes, it is really not
  expeceted of them to make a comment representing
  the whole community(I mean,"we", "Kannada people" etc.) I have many of my friends from Karnataka who are ardent fans of Chithra.
  
  
• From: friend (@ 205.227.43.12) on: Thu Oct 5 21:15:19 EDT 2000
  
  Mr Kannaries are you from karnataka? I am also from B.lore.I also repeats the same.Her most of the kannada songs are really bad. I can't say she is a bad singer,but her voice is really boring.Yes she won a karnataka state award,but I don't believe this meaningless awards.I think Vanijayaram voice is much much better than chitra's.I really missed 60's to 80's kannada songs.It is really pretty.
  I really express my personal likes.
  
  
  
  
• From: sasi (@ 205.189.94.57) on: Fri Oct 6 10:10:06 EDT 2000
  
  How does one person post a comment and write a direct reply for that as well?:-))
  
  
• From: sasi (@ 205.189.94.50) on: Fri Oct 6 12:26:15 EDT 2000
  
  Forgot to mention...
  
  For songs to be good, the industry in itself should be good. I think that without doubt, most people know the pathetic position of Kannada industry. Of all four southern film industries, it is in the poorest state, and I am not talking solely about finance. Everything about the Kannada industry is boring....that is a fact. And if you want prove, buy some cine magz or kannada newspapers.
  
  
• From: ARR Fan (@ 63.22.120.154) on: Sun Oct 8 10:50:39 EDT 2000
  
  http://www.juniorvikatan.com/11102000/jv0302.htm
  
  

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