Hello Everybody,

Congratulations and kudos to the entire team behind the Rahmania
event.

You guys put up a great show.

I was there for the last of the three performaces and enjoyed it
thoroughly.

The Wandering Souls are a bunch of really talented guys and belted
out great performances in whatever constraints and resources they
had.

Just wished that the show could go on for a longer time and more
numbers could have been performed.

Regards,

Vinay Patil


--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Amith Chandhran"
<amithchandhran@...> wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> All 3 shows of Rahmania are over. I was part of this for last one
month.
> When I woke up this morning, I felt empty and purposeless. I can't
believe
> that this one month ran away like one second. I just met Anmol
Bhave but
> couldn't speak a single word. Its so strange to feel like this.
>
> Anyway friends, as Dinesh Uncle has mentioned before, we really
rocked. For
> the show, we had personalised messages from some people who are
associated
> with AR.. Please listen to them
>
here<http://rapidshare.com/files/16145334/Singers_Talk__Packgd_.rar>
> ..
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/16145334/Singers_Talk__Packgd_.rar
>
> Thanks to Gopal, Swapnil, Vijay, Arun, Vinod, and Prashant for
helping and
> guiding me.
>
> Thanks to Shankar Mahadevan ji, Sadhana Sargam ji, Madhushree ji,
Sowmya Rao
> ji, George Peter sir, Naresh Iyer and Blaaze. They gave us the
inspiring
> audio messages only on a single request. It really helped to boost
the
> confidence of the performers!
>
> Also thanks to the others whom we had contacted. Though we
couldn't get
> their messages, they showed an interest in the concept and spoke so
> beautifully.
>
> Thanks again to Gopal and Prashant.
>
> And special thanks to A. R. Rahman sir! AR sir, we took care of
your
> inspiring words, we retained the 'soul' of the music! :-)
>
> TWS people out there, lets plan about the next things!!
>
> God bless!
>
> :-)
>
> On 2/12/07, Dinesh Vaidya <dnshvaidya@...> wrote:
> >
> > When THE WANDERING SOULS invited our GURUji, A R Rahman, to
attend
> > the programmes in Pune, this is what he replied to us in his
> > usual "short and meaningful" way...........
> >
> > "Good luck to the guys…… Hope they retain the SOUL of the
music…… God
> > Bless !".
> >
> > When the Group met on 8th evening to analyse the 7'th Feb
programme
> > as post-briefing meet, to chalk out the action plan for the
10'th Feb
> > sold out programme in Pune, Rahman's words were weighing heavily
on
> > everybodys mind. We have to respect GURU's words and have to
pull out
> > all stops to make this event a memorable one. And we
delivered…………
> >
> > WE DID IT ! WE DID IT !! WE DID IT !!! We gave a CRACKER of a
> > performance on 10th in Pune !!!! We upheld RAHMAN's trust in
us……………
> >
> > The Balgandharva Auditorium was packed to the capacity at 950PM,
10
> > minutes before schedule starting time. On dot 10PM, the curtains
> > parted to the booming beat of the "Ooruvan Ooruvan – from Muthu"
as
> > opening melody. After brief introduction of the RAHMANIA concept
and
> > paying homage to the late Naushad sahib and OP Naiyyar, the show
> > started. We gave a small sample of RAHMAN's first composition
which
> > he had made at the young age of 7 years and the audience simply
got
> > bowled over as NOBODY knew this information. In the first half,
we
> > presented,
> >
> > Ghanana Ghanana – Lagaan / Roja Janeman – Roja
> > Kahin Aag Lage – Taal / O Humdum Suniyo re - Saathiya
> > Chup ke se – Saathiya / Dil se – Dil se
> > Aye Hairathe – Guru / O Yuva – Yuva
> > Ae Ajnabi – Dil se / Bombay theme – Bombay
> > Sufi Medley ( Mubaraka / Piya Haji ali / Kehna Hi kya / Satrangi
re
> > and many more )
> >
> > That completed the first half. The sound system had held firm and
> > group was already fired up enough. The audience had already
demanded
> > ONCE MORE for 5 songs so we were running short of time.
> >
> > In the second session, we presented following songs,
> >
> > Yun Hi Chala Chal – Swades / Roo Ba Roo – RDB
> > Tu Hi Re – Bombay / Rangeela Re – Rangeela
> > Hasti rahe tu – Saathiya / Paathshala – RDB
> > Tere Bina – Guru / Shakalaka Baby – Bombay dreams
> > And finally the audience favourite Patriotic Medley consisting
of (
> > Bharat Hum ko Jaan se / Des Mere Meri Jaan hai tu / Aazadi / Yeh
jo
> > des hai tera / Maa Tujhe salaam ).
> >
> > It was a tough job to juggle the available time in this session
also
> > due to constant ONCE MORE requests. Finally we had to leave
aside few
> > of the best compositions including Vellai Pookkal. The audience
gave
> > the Wandering Souls a STANDING OVATION !!!
> >
> > Unbelieveable but true, we had visitors from outside Pune.
Shirish
> > (Shirish Musician) from Yahoo fan group had come all the way from
> > Hyderabad, in addition to that there were 25 registered Yahoo fan
> > group members who came from Mumbai just to attend the show. Plus
some
> > special guests and people, who had worked with Rahman. We had
> > received encouragement via audio messages from Shankar Mahadevan,
> > Saumya Rao, Sadhana Sargam, Blazee, Naresh Iyer and Madhushree.
We
> > will always remember their kind gesture.
> >
> > Thank you AR RAHMAN for your apt, and personalized message to the
> > group! We now know how difficult it is to compose and present
your
> > songs. You are a genious……….
> > Thank you GOPAL SRINIVASAN ! You are a true friend, philosopher
and
> > guide to us……..
> > Thank you Vijay Iyer for your encouragement and interaction with
> > Amith Chandhran and for your guidance.....
> > Thank you to the family members of The Wandering Souls, Anmol
Bhave
> > and his loyal soldiers ! you guys and gals ( now as my nephews
and
> > nieces ) mean much more than friends to me........
> > Thank you all our well wishers and the great audience of Pune !
You
> > are our support, can't do anything without you………
> >
> > The programmes were sponsored by Lokasatta ( media sponsors ) and
> > Bank of Maharashtra who have been always supportive of efforts by
> > Puneites in the field of performing arts.
> >
> > There were many many many fond memories, some tense moments, some
> > unforgettable situations. At the end of the programme, I just
> > remember getting up in a trance and hugging Anmol Bhave in highly
> > emotionally charged atmosphere, we both had tears in our
> > eyes........tears of satisfaction, tears of happiness, tears of
> > achievement.
> >
> > It was wonderful feeling…………
> >
> > Thank you RAHMAN ! Thank you PUNE ! We will be back shortly....
> >
> > Best regards
> > Dinesh Vaidya
> > The Wandering Souls, Pune
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Trusting in God never makes the mountain smaller, it just makes
the climbing
> easier. I never ask Him for the lighter load, but only for the
stronger
> back. - A. R. Rahman.
>