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Laxhme Aromas Top 10

Topic started by NOV (@ 202.75.128.12) on Sun Jan 14 03:05:19 EST 2001.
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Your TFM Page now has entered into a new frontier!

Acknowledging the powerful role of TFM DF and the Portal in determining the taste in Tamil film songs, TFM Page has been chosen to be the platform for a Top Ten programme for a radio station!

See http://www.la10.newtfmpage.com/

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• From: suresaratha (@ ) on: Mon Mar 4 09:24:08 EST 2002
  
  hi i am saratha from jb ..
  i like to listen thr ragaa..
  and i also appreciate ur djs all.
  keep it up..
  pls dedicate un paniya from nandaa to my lovely husband sures cute ponnu nithiya my parent,mum in law,bro and sis all
  
  
• From: suresaratha (@ ) on: Mon Mar 4 09:28:54 EST 2002
  
  hi i am saratha from jb ..
  i like to listen thr ragaa..
  and i also appreciate ur djs all.
  keep it up..
  pls dedicate un paniya from nandaa to my lovely husband sures cute ponnu nithiya my parent,mum in law,bro and sis all
  
  
• From: Mrs. Anbu (@ 202.188.56.63) on: Wed Mar 6 02:26:19 EST 2002
  
  Hi, Vivek and Kala,
  Ungal padaippu Laxme Aromasai pollave manamagavum, manatirkku itamagavum irrukkiratu!
  Well Done!!
  
  
• From: Uma Gopal (@ 210.195.128.95) on: Wed Mar 13 00:33:05 EST 2002
  
  Vivek & Kala , well done both of u! Your program is really superb & it's proud to feel that our indians can to do such a good work , it's not easy to be a Dj, & not everyone can entertain listners easily ........ so nithia & karthika , i think you guys should be proud that our indian can do such a good job. Please do not critise a person easily, & think how you'd feel being their shoes. Kala & Vivek "DON'T GIVE UP" you guys are really good.
  
  
• From: muniyappan @muthalvan (@ 202.188.71.1) on: Mon Mar 18 02:55:53 EST 2002
  
  HAI . HELLO KALA
  
  we wish a prosperous HAPPY TAMIL NEW YEA Rto all hindus and we pray to god may they all having a good healthy and wealthy life.may `ELLAM VALLA IRAIVAN AASIYAL ELLORUM VAAZHA ,ELLA PUGAZHAZHUM ELLA VETRIYUM THARUVATHAAGA PRATHIKKIROM'.
  
  
• From: Nevashini D/O Palanivelu (@ 161.142.100.86) on: Mon Mar 18 08:45:25 EST 2002
  
  Hi! Vivek Kala. ungal nigalchi migavum arumei.From:Neeeeeeeeeeeeeevashini
  
  
• From: Nevashini D/O Palanivelu (@ 161.142.100.86) on: Mon Mar 18 08:45:46 EST 2002
  
  Hi! Vivek Kala. ungal nigalchi migavum arumei.From:Neeeeeeeeeeeeeevashini
  
  
• From: premani supramaniam (@ ) on: Mon Apr 8 04:27:19 EDT 2002
  
  hey guys....ur show is really happening and i really enjoyed it...well....keep it up guys...and the show really makes me drive crazy....
  
  VIVEK nad KALA....PODE APPEDEYE PODE....enjoy guys
  
  
• From: N.S Kartik (@ ) on: Tue Apr 16 01:55:33 EDT 2002
  
  hi vivek n kala ungal sirippu enake romba pudichereke I love u all
  
  
  
  
  
• From: KARTIK (@ 203.106.223.51) on: Tue Apr 16 01:59:31 EDT 2002
  
  Please refer this song to all malaysian COUPLES..
  
  VASEEGARA
  
  
  
• From: Revival_kamal@Rahman Fan (@ ) on: Tue Apr 23 03:42:22 EDT 2002
  
  A.R. Rahman is on a roll. A Broadway musical about Bollywood? Yes, that's what we are going to see in 2001 thanks to Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber! The music of Bollywood Dreams will be provided by A.R. Rahman. In fact, this coming year we should be seeing a lot more of this hugely talented music composer whose music almost guarantees a box-office hit for a Bollywood movie. Indeed, if there's one single performer who's popularized the sound of Bollywood abroad it's A.R. Rahman.
  
  Last year his four debut concerts across America attracted record crowds: The event in New York drew 16,500 people while over 22,000 turned up at the concert in Toronto, including Japanese fans in T-shirts, which read "Come to Tokyo, Rahman!" In San Francisco there were over 9,000, and in Los Angles 6,000 fans filled the Shrine Auditorium.
  
  This traveling musical extravaganza with a cast and crew of 102 included such well-known names as Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurti, S.P. Balasubramaniam, Hariharan, Sukhwinder Singh, Shankar Mahadevan, Sadhana Sargam and Anupama. A 70 piece orchestra with live chorus, special lighting effects and sophisticated production made the concert a must see, with music from Roja to Taal.
  
  Audiences at the concerts also got to hear a scratch recording from the much-anticipated Bombay Dreams, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage show. "The Moon Song," a richly melodic song, was sung by Indo-Canadian discovery Karen Shenaz. Says Rahman, "It's a love story based in Bollywood and stars both Asian and English stars." He's already created 18 scratches or early versions of the songs and is trying them out at different shows to gauge the reaction.
  
  "It is the increasing popularity of Indian film music which has forced the west to sit up and take notice of the richness and diversity of the Indian notes," observes Rahman. "There is a whole new movement towards Indian music happening the world over. The fact that Taal entered the Top 20 on the UK charts encouraged Lord Webber to experiment with Indian music too." According to Rahman, the music director of Bombay Dreams will interpret his score and the stage show will open next year in London.
  
  This month Sony Music released Zubeidaa, the music from Shyam Benegal's movie starring Karishma Kapoor, Manoj Bajpai and Rekha. This period film evokes the 50's and the music is slow and symphonic, celebrating Lata's voice. Says Rahman, 'I've been wanting to do that style for almost 8 years; the right time was now." Also soon to be released is the music from the Kamal Hasan starrer Tennali and by November, Lagan, which is Aamir Khan's production.
  
  Indeed, Rahman-mania is on full swing across the Indian Diaspora. Go to the Net and you find scores of websites and homepages devoted totally to the unassuming musician. At concerts and social gatherings he gets the kind of adulation generally reserved for Bollywood hunks.
  
  He's sold more than 100 million albums. His music for the Tamil film Padayappa sold 1.2 million copies in two days, and the same happened with the Hindi film Taal whose very catchy score made it one of the top 20 grossers even in the United States and the United Kingdom. He's received every conceivable music related award in India, and films with music composed by him are near-guaranteed box office hits.
  
  The late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan called him a musical genius and he's collaborated with David Byrne, Talvin Singh, L. Shankar, Zakir Husain and Apache Indian. He's won 12 Filmfare awards, the Padmashri, and captured the imagination of Indians everywhere with his patriotic ballads Vande Mataram and Jana Gana Mane.
  
  But who is the man behind the celebrity? And why has success left him unfazed, thoroughly unassuming and really quite cool? Just eight years ago Rahman was a little known musician in Madras. His father, music composer K.A Shekar, died when Rahman was only 9. He quit school early to start working as a musician and supporting his mother and three sisters. He began composing advertising jingles and was fascinated by the synthesizer. He says, "For me, technology and music came together."
  
  He went to the Trinity College of Music in London on a scholarship. After his London sojourn he returned to Madras and established a state of the art recording studio and began experimenting with sound engineering, design and production. He recalls, "I started playing in the studios as a musician and composing commercials. Initially music was a work thing for me; you go and you get money. I started as a player because I didn't know if I had this composing talent. The interest came when I started composing, that was fun. That developed into scoring."
  
  His first film, Mani Ratnam's Roja skyrocketed him to fame, and the blockbusters have rained upon him. His 1995 soundtrack for the film Bombay crossed 5 million units and Rahman had arrived as the King of Indian Pop. Taal, for instance, sold 4 million units by the end of 1999.
  
  Born A.S. Duleep Kumar, he converted to Islam during the days of hardship, and finds that his faith in Allah touches everything he does. He says, "Something happens that is beyond you." For Rahman, religion is a family affair and along with his mother, wife Saira, and two daughters, Kateja, 5, and Rafia, 2, they are an observant family. He believes that Allah creates the magic that happens with his music.
  
  A believer in Sufi mysticism, his music is about universal love and comes out bold and unfettered, attracting listeners to its larger than life sound. Using hi-tech equipment and fusing music of different traditions he celebrates Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, reggae, rock and Carnatic music.
  
  In fact, his joyous music seems to bring in vibrant, diverse rhythms, which create unexpected aural images, cutting across international borders. Yet he remembers hard times as well as good times with calm, accepting them both as the will of God: " When I think I'm doing the action, then I feel the pain. So I get that thought out because we are not in control of anything. You try hard, you pray and that's it. It's much more peaceful than thinking you can control everything, because you can't."
  
  Rahman believes that it's all about letting people have their space and living in harmony. He says, "By putting other people down, you never grow big." That philosophy runs through his music, and is the reason he's been able to bring such magic to the patriotic ballad Vande Mataram, on which he also sang. In fact, singing has always been a passion with Rahman and he has sung on a number of film tracks.
  
  With his faith in his heart, Rahman continues to create music that charms audiences across the Diaspora. His concert in Kuala Lumpur attracted 40,000 people and his performance in Dubai attracted 50,000. Last year alone he was in New York several times, twice to receive Bollywood awards from NRI audiences for his music for Taal.
  
  Rahman believes that Bollywood is going to have a major impact on the West. He says, "Madonna is singing our songs, Michael Jackson is crooning Ekam Satyam. Even Stanley Kubrick incorporated Indian notes on the soundtrack of Eyes Wide Shut."
  
  Bollywood, you've come a long way baby! And of course, some of the credit must go the magic of A.R. Rahman.
  
  
• From: Revival_kamal@Rahman Fan (@ 210.186.89.210) on: Tue Apr 23 03:46:19 EDT 2002
  
  Literary translations, no doubt, lack half the flavour of the original. It is even more difficult with poetry, however well transcreated it might be. The music world was quite unaware of this dilemma until A.R. Rahman's dubbed Hindi music rocked the north. As I listen to his original "arabi kadal - humma humma" that courses like bubbly red corpuscles through the veins of Bombay, I find the experience much more ecstatic, if not more earthy, than the Hindi version. But since the transcreator is essentially A.R. Rahman, the beat and tonal richness achieves the near-same levels of melody.
  
  At Time Audio's launch of the Rangeela cassette, Rahman's music drew wide-ranging reactions from the listener-viewers (the picturisation of songs seems to fuse into the soul of music) . Rahman's debut as a Hindi music composer in terms of melodious content drew as little attention to it as the invisible, self-effacing man himself.
  
  Short, swarthy and shy, Rahman was the most unobtrusive, withdrawn guy in that loud, madcap party. Crowds were gravitating towards a bemused Aamir Kahn who was as obliging as a marionette towards his admirers, as they stood around with a shaking glass in one hand and autograph-book in the other. All this while, Rahman stood uncertain, unrecognized in a corner, till a small body of journalists took him aside to a sofa and strained their vocal-chords to make their questions heard in that bedlam. Rahman is a slow, thoughtful speaker, often terse and forthright, and at times witty. The whiz kid has matured after his marriage but hasn't shed his shyness, which often makes him look like a hopeless recluse. Even his secretary has the same impression of him, despite years of working with him. A.R. Rahman often remains cooped up for hours in the echoing confines of his huge house where more and more rooms are being added.
  
  With Rangeela , how does he find the switchover to Hindi music?
  
  "Earlier, I used to get the lyrics dubbed from Tamil into Hindi. Now, it's the other way round,' said Rahman in a simple, matter-of fact style. However, it is not just the dubbing part of it. I try to absorb the atmosphere of the song. I visualise the situation, and my music brings out the mood in it.'
  
  Never before has a particular genre of music been copied as fast and as unabashedly as the Rahman style. To suffer from rahmanitis have been music directors like Anu malik (who went to psychopathic lengths in claiming and then believeing in the lie themselves that gentleman's three songs including Roop Suhana Lagta Hai were composed by them). Pradip laad came out with non-filmi songs copying Muqabla Muqabla. Dilip Sen Sameer Sen repeated it in Raghuveer's Aye jaane man chehra tera.. The fever is catching on fast.
  
  "I do not care a damn for copycats,' said Rahman, and then carefully relaxing into the role of a forgiving Samaritan , he said, 'I do not blame Anu Malik for lifting my tunes. I blame none. Why should I bother All I can say is a true music lover, dedicated to music, will create music. Music is part of a person's mental and physical make-up. No two persons can compose in a similar way as no two persons can sing in the same way."
  
  With popularity comes a surfeit of offers - some good some bad. And some very bad. Creativity suffers.
  
  "That's true", Rahman reflects, taking the cue. "But I am very selective in my work. When I am composing my mind cannot just focus except on one tune at a time. I can't churn out five tunes in the same time. At present I am doing a couple of Hindi films - you have listened to Rangeela. There is Kabhi Na Kabhi and Shikhar.
  
  Is it true that Subhash Ghai paid him One crore for Shikhar?
  
  Rahman as rather agitted for a moment by this question. He moved uneasily, his brow lined by a worried pleat. "if somebody pays me one crore he will ask for quick results," he began rather unconvincingly.
  
  "I can't offer a ready made recipe of music. I need time to compose to my heart's satisfaction.' Clearly, Rahman was being evasive. Money was too serious a matter to talk about in public maybe, Subhash Ghai could give a straight answer someday.
  
  Now a peek into Rahman's past. Rahman's father R.K. Sekhar was a popular director of Tamil and Malayalam films.
  
  "When I was nine," said Rahman, my father died. He was 43 then. Till then Rahman was a Hindu. After her husband's death Rahman's mother embraced Islam.
  
  " I often used to pour into my father's scattered work , notes which we'd find in some old box or on some room shelf. For some time I also took lessons in pop music from the Trinity College of Music in London. I returned to India in 1987 and started giving music, in ad films. I had an adventure of a lifetime going around the world with the troupe of tabla-maestro Zakir Hussain - from him I got some schooling in classical music. And in 1991, I gave music for Mani Ratnam's Roja.'
  
  Besides his Tamil hits, Rahman caused quite, a stir in Malayalam Yodha and Telugu's Gang Master. The Tamil: string of melodies include films like Roja, Thiruda Thiruda, Pudiya Mugam, Duet, Kadhalan and Indira.
  
  Who has he been most inspired by among the old and new music directors?
  
  I love Naushad, S.D. Burman and Madan Mohan. Among my favourite songs is Mughal-e-Azam's Pyar kiya to Darna kya.. I want to create a song of that melody. Among the modern compositions Panchamda's Ek ladki Ko Dekha stirs me deeply. And, yes, Raja's Akhiyan Milaaoon Kabhi is a very sweet melody.'
  
  As you watch the irresistible tyranny of the sensuously provocative song in Rangeela Jackie Shroff and Urmila Matondkar seductively entwined in the melody of tossing sea - you feel A.R. Rahman must have composed the song alongwith the build-up of the situation.
  
  'Yes, my songs are rather situational in the film - there's a strong imagery backed up by picturesque movements. I was regularIy on the sets with lyricist Mehboob and director Ram Gopal Verma and some of my songs have grown stanza by stanza with the picturisation - so the overall effect is the inseparable fusion of the two. The elements of melody and movement (dance) are sharply etched in your mind as a whole.'
  
  The growing popularity of A.R. Rahman hasn't left untouched even the sports world."I am going to compose the World Cup cricket inaugural beats. There was a rumour that I'd dissociated myself from the project. That's not true. I am seriously thinking of composing something special for the occasion. It's a question of our country's pride".
  
  
  
  

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