Hmm

Almost the first month of the new year is going to wind up. It's been quite tight since the new year began. Lots of work. And yes, lots of good news from the music world too (the Golden Globe and the Oscar nominations and of course Delhi-6 and Connections).

The coming months shall be even more hectic. Not just with office deadlines closing up, but with the preparations for Sadhguru's first ever visit to Seattle. Yes, in case you did not know, Sadhguru is going to be coming to Seattle on March 24 and is going to be giving a free public talk and it goes unstated that you MUST attend it, if you are going to be anywhere in this area, and that might be the best decision you ever made in your life. It is, for me!

More about the event, later!

Rahman on a Roll !!!

The Golden globe was just the beginning. As the Academy award nominations (aka Oscars) poured in, I am sure most of the fans of the humble musical genius, A.R.Rahman would have had a tear or two, out of sheer joy. I don't perceive Oscar as a big deal, their tastes are different, the audiences different and much more... they are not necessarily the final judges. But what an Oscar does give is a world wide recognition, and ARR deserves it every bit. Such a versatile composer, I've never seen. Even if one simply enumerates the different genres he has composed, one can come up with such a huge list, and that too, not a sample composition but one of the highest order, that no one can match his versatility.

Rahman has the following nominations:

1. Best Original Song: Jai Ho
2. Best Original Song: O Saya

Is this the first time a composer is self-competing in the Oscars. The only other song nominated in this category is from Wall-E.

3. Best Original Score: Slumdog Millionaire

Enough said. I am going to watch how things unfold and here's wishing him deep down from my heart that he wins both the Oscars for which he has been nominated for.

As Anil Kapoor says in the movie, "My heart says you are going to win more"
And as Salim says in the climax, Rahman is going to end up saying "God is great"

Naresh vaai adangum neram...

Raghu has the peculiar habit of murdering any class song with his "bhai - paai - saai" gibberish, the one that he invented during college days, and continues to carry on fervently, even after 5 long years. Today, due to the recent requests to make another inane video like this, I got reminded of this and thought that I should record it here.

Context: Naresh is known to love to eat out in restaurants when we were in Hyderabad (and even now), however costly they may be. Due to a fractured jaw, he was mouth-arrested for more than 2 months and when he came out of it, Raghu and myself wrote this song for him. It eventually became a regular song amongst us that we recorded it one evening. It was FUN!
BTW, all proper nouns like Angeethi, Shikaar, Chutneys are all restaurant names.

Thalaa.........Delhi 6

Looks like the master thought that the continuous barrage of musical hits (Sakkarakatti, Yuvvraaj, Ghajini, Slumdog, Ada, Jaane Tu, Jodha) wasn't enough, here he comes, with Delhi-6 that is going to set the music industry on fire!!! You can safely mark my words, as I write this, just listening to it for the first time (not even finished listening to all the tracks), that this is one of THE MOST CREATIVE WORKS from Rahman. You wouldn't have listened to such exotic music before, ever!

Rahman is Rahman - peerless. PERIOD.

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I am mad right now. Should not be a big surprise if you've been following this blog. YES. A.R.Rahman has won the Golden Globe award for the best original score- motion picture this year (2009) and I've no words to express the elation I am right now in.



Yes, tears rolled over as the news sunk in. Being an Indian does not make this award special to me, as is the case with many. It is the person who is getting this award that makes it so special. Here's wishing him all the very best for more to come.


The Golden globe in itself is a huge achievement and a great platform to an international arena. If Oscars also come his way, then it will be an even greater visibility that this versatile genius long deserves. Let us see :-)


By the way, this will be the next Khwaja mere Khwaja... This is from Delhi-6. Songs yet to be released. This song also bought tears in me. Maestro ARR, you are so special!

Happy Birthday ARR

Dear A.R.Rahman,

It is not needed to reiterate how much you are part of my every day... Here's wishing you a very very happy birthday and a fabulous new year. May all your wishes be fulfilled... And hope you get to delight us, song after song, year after year, for a very very long time...




Happy that the first post of 2009 happened to be this one :-D

Have a great new year!