Jai Ho - A R Rahman Concert

The 'jai ho' concert was excellent, showcasing Great talents.
Marg Swarnabhoomi is some 90 km from Chennai and I feel pity for my fellow audience as we had to travel so long for A R Rahman's live concert. They should not call it 'Concert at Chennai'. But for A R Rahman, nobody would have travelled so long.
Next time on, may i request the organizers to conduct such performances in some Open Stadium, nearby the city and request the people humbly to use public transports. Inexperienced drivers driving in ECR in such a traffic, was very dangerous.
The buses arranged by the organizers were all empty. Very few used the facility. I too did not use the Bus service thinking it might be crowded. I went in my bike 180 km up and down. But thats the reason why I bought a 150 cc bike. :)

Blazee, Benny Dayal and Sivamani were as good as they usually are.
Lots of Hindi songs. Performing in TamilNadu many people would have been happier if there were as many songs from Tamil too.
I was expecting Chinmayee to perform 'Sahana' from 'Sivaji, The Boss' and Karthik performing songs esp from Baba. Both did not perform. Chitra was as cool as she is and she filled our hearts with her great voice. 'Kannalaney' from Bombay was the highlight esp after Rahman performed the Hindustani (I think) Arziyan song from Delhi 6 and two more songs clad in Muslim Topi aka yankee, we say 'gulla'.And of course 'Humma' song from the same film was rocking. In the end Jai ho and Vande mataharam was touching.
Everybody performed like a school kid. They jus did what was said and was fantastic. Nothing extra nothing less. Sheer performance. That is what I like in A R Rahman's troupe.
Rehena (A R Rahman's Sister) performed a song and she was mostly with chorus during the concert. It was good to see her performing in her brother's concert esp in his home town - Chennai.

All through the concert i had 'mei silirkum' experience.


The Fireworks was very colorful. Can I say raining colors.

The concert started at 7:30 pm (supposed to start at 6.Thanks to traffic and A R Rahman himself who was late to the venue) and concluded at 10:45 pm.

oh! I forgot to mention 'Mustafa' song. It was awesome and they flew hot air balloons as A R Rahman performed this song. One small remote connection here.

I met my High School tuition mate (remember last seeing him some 5 years back) at the venue. It was really surprising and we felt happy. Cherished our memoirs. (I also befriended Meeran, Hema, Gokul and Hema's friend Anu who are Leo's team Mates at his workplace )

There are three reasons why i cant forget Oct 11 2009.

I watched A R Rahman performing live, met my high school buddy and third reached home safely without (my stolen) helmet. :)

Nagala Trek - CTC

Went to Nagala Trek last month. It was too good.enjoyed at the slide rock in the stream. Thats muthukumaran,and naveen along with me.

SAVE A LIFE

Got this as a fwd mail. Its true that 108 is doing a great service.

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Dear All

I am sharing my personal experience with “108” (EMRI) on their Quick response.

When I travel from Pondicherry to Coimbatore last Sunday (02-08-09) night by Bus, the bus met an accident with lorry in National Highway nearby “Atthur” Landmark: “Paaventhar college of Arts and Science”.

Two of my co-passenger got injured.

One is lady and second is her baby of 15months old.

The lady had an injury in her hand and the baby was motionless. The First-Aid kit is also missing in the bus.


The accident happened at mid-night 00:57am.

On seeing the condition of the baby and mother, I immediately called 108 at 00:59am. Explained the state of injured persons and location of the place, Village, District & Taluk (assisted by a local person). It took around 3minutes.

At 01:03am (within a minute) I got a call from 108 with a conference to the district level center explained the exact location and condition of the persons injured. It took around 3minutes.

At 01:08am again I got a call from the Ambulance saying that they are on the way to accident spot.

To be surprise, the Ambulance reached the spot at 01:17am and started the treatment. The baby was brought to the active state (may be due to timely attempt by 108-EMRI) and medicines given for injured lady. At the end of their treatment both of them came to normal.

The EMRI 108 Ambulance reached the spot within 15minutes from the receipt of information to them


Here I would like express one thing that except me, none of the co-passengers were not aware of 108.

As I am aware of 108 through training given for EMERGENCY EVACUATION DRILL conducted in June ’09, I could help the co-passengers.


Kindly share this experience, so that the people can make use of wonderful service provided by EMRI – “108” in TamilNadu.

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I too have had a similar experience. I am used to go home late in the night and it was saturday. Needless to say, was returning home at around 11:30 - 12:pm on Velachery ByePass road. There was a group of people surrounding a couple of accident victims. They were lying on the median. Bike was lying nearby. It seemed like the accident had taken place not less than 5 mins before. I parked my bike some distance away on the road side and came to the spot.Immediately heard a siren. And it was 108 ambulance service. They took the victims to a nearby hospital. Both in the same van. Only when this ambulance was about to start Appolo Ambulance was reaching the spot. Don't know which one was called first, i was really astonished (shock aaiten) to see a Govt aided service reacting at this pace.

Should say 'Really Great Service for Saving one's Life'.

108 - Jai Ho :)

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