Rahman rocked Chennai with Changing note
23 04 2008Guitars, ghatams, tablas, trombones and trumpets played second fiddle to Ar Rahman on Sunday at the Times of India Changing Notes concert. Chennai’s most musical son performed for a 50,000-strong audience in his hometown after years. “I can’t remember the last time he performed live,” said one fan, keeping a wary eye on a policeman with a wicked-looking lathi. And Rahman himself started the show saying, “I haven’t heard sound and cheering like this in at least two years.”
Eager fans turned up on the St. George’s school grounds as early as 4 pm on Sunday evening, to “catch places” in the front rows. Shouts of “Rahman-Rah-Rah” filled the air and the excited audience waved posters, phootgraphs and sketches of Rahman. A bright green and red “Thank you Times of India” poster was waved around. Even the normally-staid VVIPs let their hair down to cheer and screech. The fashionably late found themselves standing in the aisles until accommodating organizers brought in more chairs.
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