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23 Feb 2009!!! What a day it has been for millions of AR Rahman fans back home. YES. The Oscar goes to Rahman... Not one but two :) I could say nothing but a BIG congrats to ARR and Pookutty!!
Simplicity is something that i like the most in ARR... perhaps even a step more than his music. Very few personalities stick to this code.
Unfortunate to miss out the live coverage today morning, but was abreast with the event on the web like many others in the office. It was the first time i heard the excitement across the office for an event other than cricket. I could hear the noise... "Yes AR got it...", "Its two now..." everybody was as excited as holding the golden statue in their hand itself...
What a moment it was...
Still remember the days where we go buy the cassettes/CDs on the very first day of the ARR's music release... It was indeed great disappointment when i was told that all the 'alaipayudhe' CDs were sold out inspite of getting additional stock!! all this among busy entrance exam preparations... :)
Highlight of the day, what made whole Indians proud is the "Mere pass Ma hai" and "ella pugazhum irraivanukke" thats truely taking India on global stage. Very special thanks to him for taking India's glory to the red carpet.
As a close follower of his every compositions, i do believe that he had given much much great music than this... ultimately its just the recogintion that matters, he deserves it and he gets it!!
I wish he gives us more and more great music, With Delhi 6 already rocking... eagerly awaiting for all his other releases. Plenty more to come!
"Jai Ho" AR :)
Taking liberty to copy/paste the content of my friend Varun's blog here... No harm in spreading good messages :)
It is good to know that few good men does exist... surrounded by the world of selfish people who do whatever it takes to go forward, world of blaming people, world of people doing wrong stuffs saying they are correcting someone's mistake...etc etc. List is huge...i don't want to highlight bad things while talking about some good stuff. Here is the content from Varun...
I was in the Coimbatore railway station to catch a train back to Bangalore when a strange incident happened. I could not locate the platform where the train would come so i asked a police man standing nearby. Forgetting that i was in Tamil Nadu i asked him in Hindi. Bewildered, the police man answered back in fluent English that i would find the train in 4th platform. Embarrassed with my wrong perception that police men are uneducated, i walked on to the platform. After wandering aimlessly in the platform, a middle aged man looking like a small barrel with shirt on it approached me and asked if i needed any help. I was confused and little suspicious of the courtesy shown by this stranger refused the kind gesture. This was the second time i replied back to someone in English although knowing the native language. I soon realized that he was there for money and would squeeze out as much money as possible assuming that i was a stranger to this part of the country. At this point i decided to play along and see what all he would do to get money. I also decided that i would maintain "only English" image. When it was time to get into the train compartment, he pushed himself into the crowd and made way for me to enter the compartment. I soon settled down and knew that it was time for give-me-money talk. To my surprise he wished me a happy journey and walked away. I couldn't help asking him what this is all about. This time, to his surprise, i spoke to him in Tamil asking him why he was so courteous? After a smile he said that he was working for the Tourism department of TN and his job was to help non-locals from getting cheated. The police man i spoke to earlier had asked him to help me as didn't look like a person from this part of the country. It was a very different experience and something i will remember for a long time. Now iam curious if this happens in other cities also?
Personal experiences apart...Nice to know good people do exist!
