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Hi
folks, I have been to AR Rahman Live concert was held on 23rd Sep 2000 at
Nassaucoliseum auditorium. Tamilians across u.s. travelled a long distance
to see this show. Many travelled
for 4 to 5 hours from boston, new hamshire, atlanta, chicago etc. The cost
of the concert is also very high when compare to any other american show.
It was 25,35,50, 75 and 150$. But
inspite of all this, AR Rahman live concert had 99% of hindi songs. The
show started with two tamil songs and ended with three tamil songs.
Totally 5 tamils songs in 3&1/2 hour show.
All tamilians who came to show are very much disappointed. Everyone
started requesting to put tamil songs ,padaiyappa , kathal desam etc., but
with no luck. AR Rahman has highly
disappointed all tamilians over here. This AR Rahman show was marketed as
if it is a south indian show, but the show had all hindi songs only. This
was very highly disappointing evening. You can also see the fwded mail
below, where they were marketing for their next show in california, which
is going to disappoint lots of tamilfans, not only by time but also by
money. I would appreciate if you can bring this news to the knowledge of
entire public in California. Atleast all hindi speak can enjoy the show
and avoid more tamilians to get disappointed.
Thank
you, SASIKUMAR
FORWARDED
MAIL
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:09:25 -0400 From:
Subject: A.R.RAHMAN LIVE IN CALIFORNIA To: Subject: A.R Rahman Live in
California-Please forward Please forward this to all your friends who love
music Variety Entertainment brings the one and only, A.R Rahman for his
first live tour of the U.S.Coined as the Biggest Musical Extravaganza to
come out of India, A.R. Rahman Tour USA will be the single largest musical
production to come out of India. The L.A show is at the famous Shrine
Auditorium on Friday, October 6th and the S.F show is at the Cow Palace on
October 8th at 7.30 P.M. The concerts will start on time so please arrive
early. The foremost singers including Udit Narayan, Sadhna Sargam,
Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Kavita
Krisnamurthy, S.P Balasubramaniam, Sukhvinder, Anupama, Chitra, Sujata,
Deven, Srinivas, Clinton, will be accompanying A.R Rahman on this one of a
kind concert. The show will also feature a fourty-five piece orchestra
along with some of the finest dancers from India and the U.S. Also singing
for the first time will be Karen, the lead singer from Lord Andrew Lloyd
Webber and Rahman's collaboration- 'Bombay Dreams'. The MC for the evening
is the talented and funny, Javed Jaffrey. Featured percussionist include
Sivamani, Vikku Vinayakram and some of the finest Brazilian players. The
sold out New York show on 23rd September at the Nassau Collisieum was
attended by over 15,000 people. A.R Rahman performs a mix of his Hindi and
South Indian hit songs including from his forthcoming album Zubeida and
the single from Bombay Dreams. This show features more than 15000 watts of
power on a sound system used by the Rolling Stones, laser and special
effects from Broadway Shows and six costume changes. This is one show that
you do not want to miss. Check out www.arrahmanustour
for details. For online tickets visit www.eindia.com.
We are proud to be associated with HCL Technologies, Specsoft and
Jamcracker in bringing you this very special event. Tickets are available
at selected Indian stores and at the Box Office. For information call 408
737 8500 in Northern California and 562 865 9196 in Southern California.
If you are a part of a large
corporation that has a number of South Asian employees, we have worked out
special corporate ticket group rates. Please send us an email to this
address and we will follow up with your
company's marketing department. Pass this email on to all fans of Indian
music. This is the greatest Indian music show ever.. Join us for a night
you will never forget!
www.varietyshowbiz.com
www.arrahmaustour.com
Hi folks,
Many of them would have read my article in kumudam as well as in this
thread. Though i have got a few supported mails, i have also got few
apposing replies. I am not mentioning about the quality or the composing
of AR Rahman. All i am talking was the disappointment for the tamil only
speaking indian people. The show was marketed as if a south indian musical
show (which you wud have seen their sample advertisement mail that i have
posted last time.) so many tamilians bought the ticket and visited. But
the show was in hindi and few tamils songs were played for the sake of
tamilians as an eye wash. If they would have marketed the show as hindi
then there would not be much of tamil crowd. Only hindi known people would
have gathered and enjoyed a lot. If anyone would have attended the show
will know how people have reacted and their face impression with lots of
disappointment. Everyone wasted their time and money. Particularly Andra
people were very much disappointed, because they did not get even a single
song in their language. There are lots of hindi shows are happening like
bollywood awards etc. But all those show does not cost more than 20$ to
30$. Even american shows in naussau coliseum does not cost more than 25$.
But this AR Rahman show costed from 25$ to 150$ where all tamilians paid
for and they got cheated very badly.
There also some of them mentioning different url where the AR Rahman show
was praised like anything. But all that information are not true. It is
for the sake for marketing and to earn more
money than satisfing the respective language speaking AR rahman fans.
This is mails is my personal view and some of the other tamilians view who
have attend the show. If this mail would have hurt your feelings i am very
sorry about that.
"Fact is stranger than fiction"
With love,
SASIKUMAR
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