A R Rahman - Live in Concert - 29 Dec 2012

[Thiru]

Went to the concert in Atlantic City yesterday... Awesome concert... It was great to see the maestro live after a gap of 10 years.. Unlike previous concerts, ARR sang 70-75% of the songs.. Hariharan sang just 2-3 songs.. Surprisingly Vijay Prakash and Benny dayal played a big part in the show..

ARR started with 3 peppy numbers O saaya, Athiradee and Rang de basanti.. The crowd on hand was great and there were lots of tamil/telugu ppl in the crowd.. ARR went into slow songs with 'Yeh jo desh' and finishing it with 'undhan desathin kural'..
There was a medley in the middle where they were singing qawalis, ghazals etc.. which was good with hari standing out during that portion..The medley slowly changed into religious songs with Ik Onkar bit, O Palanhare bit and then the maestro delivered the song of the night .. 'Khwaja meri Khwaja'.. I still get goosebumps thinking of the experience when he started out 'khwaja jee''...
The medley continued with a difference with songs from 3 languages (hindi, tamil and telugu).. When vijay prakash sang 'oh cheliya' bit (ennavale) and 'Ee hriyadam' bit in Telugu , you could get that the majority of the crowd in the arena were telugu ppl.. Those two bits had the arena shaking.. It would have really satisfied the goltis if he had performed a full telugu song.. The last 20 minutes of the show was really rocking with Chaiya chaiya, Humma,
Oorvasi blended into Taxi Taxi and finally Jai ho and Maa Thuje Salaam...

Overall It was a great experience.. Hariharan was missing at the end and sang only 2-3 songs..
ARR went with many not so famous songs..'Only you' from vandhe matharam.. 2 songs from jaane tu ya na jaana.. 'Holi Re' from Mangal pandey etc.. Lots of stuff from Sllum dog and Bombay Dreams..

Final note, If you are a ARR fan, you should go to these concerts..