Music without borders
Oscar winner opens up about his philosophy and shuttling between LA and Chennai
creating universal music
* By Sunil K. Vaidya, Oman Bureau Chief
* Published: 00:00 January 24, 2010
*
Concert Review
Jai Ho, Rahman
Oman had never seen anything like the Jai Ho concert before as over 15,000
people packed the Royal Oman Police Stadium on Thursday night to watch Oscar
winner A.R. Rahman perform with a troupe of 90 artists.
Drummer par excellence Shiv Mani set the tone for the three-hour show that
started on time at 8pm and ended on the stroke of 11pm.
The concert proved that shows of this scale can be held in Muscat and audiences
would pay to watch. Massive LED screens made a perfect backdrop as everything
worked to precision. Hundreds of lights dazzled the wide stage as the sound
quality and 3D projection provided a life-like effect throughout the show.
Rahman was, as usual, most unassuming on stage, but unleashed his vast
repertoire of songs and demonstrated his ability to handle different
instruments, including an unplugged session on a giant pedal piano with
Hariharan, Sadhna Sargam, Rashid Ali and Javed Ali.
Rahman let his music take centre stage and did not indulge in costume changes,
a la Bollywood shows, but made sure to wear the Omani mussar (headgear) when he
got lost singing sufi songs.
If there was a sombre sufi session by Rahman on harmonium while sitting on the
floor, then there were peppy hip-hop, pop, reggae, heavy metal, rap and ballads
to satiate the eclectic audience.
The audience jumped, danced and whistled with joy throughout the concert and
went away with moist eyes as Rahman called it a day with the emotional
rendition of the Indian national song Vande Mataram.
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AR Rahman - His music for ears for years
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From: Vijay Mohan Iyer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 9:21:47 AM
Subject: Re: [arr] (SemiARR) Anmol Bhave bags National Award for best Sound !
This is nothing short of fantastic !!! way to go and yes the Guru is pleased
:)..passes on his best wishes
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:48 AM, DineshVaidya <dnshvai...@yahoo. co.in> wrote:
>Anmol Bhave, a Yahoo Group member, Chief of The Wandering Souls "RAHMANIA" and
>a disciple of our Guruji has been chosen for NATIONAL AWARD by Government of
>India for Best Sound for a film "GANDH" ( in Marathi ) !
>
>This is Anmol's second National Award for Best Sound. He received his first
>award for his FTII graduation film "CLOSURE" 3 years back.
>
>Anmol also did Music Direction and Sound for a childrens film in Kannada
>"GUBBACHIGALU" and also did sound for another FTII graduation film "THREE OF
>US". Incidently BOTH these films received NATIONAL AWARDs for best films in
>their category !
>
>Directly or indirectly this is a hattrick of sorts for Anmol !
>
>Anmol owes his success to AR Rahman. Though Anmol is a Mechanical Engineer,
>the field of SOUND ENGINEERING attracted him the most after exposed to the
>unique sound of ARRahman's music and he has chosen SOUND ENGINEERING as his
>career now.
>
>Anmol claims that every performance of his show RAHMANIA opens up a new
>treasure into Rahman's unique Sound Engineering skills and Anmol admits that
>on the scale of ARR, he has a long way to go......
>
>On behalf of the Yahoo group, I congratulate Anmol and wish him even more
>success in his future assignments.
>
>I am sure Guruji ARR must be happy with his talented disciple.... ..
>
>Best regards
>Dinesh Vaidya
>Pune
>
>
