Infinite Love is his second opportunity to watch ARR sir perform live, whereby this was the very first time for the other 3 of us. My brother was fortunate enough to attend ARR sir’s first ever live concert in 1996. We joined the long queue at about 4.10pm and waited until the gates were opened at 6.20pm. Bought the ticket in February as soon as the ticketing information was released and kept calm until the slated day arrives. It drizzled slightly while we (brother, sister, me and love) were on the way to Stadium Merdeka as early as 3.30pm. The ARR’s Infinite Love Live in KL concert was officially announced in January and based on the list of performers it was pretty obvious that it will be featuring ARR’s Rahmanishq team with few more other artistes and it will be the best of both worlds, Tamil and Hindi. Skipping to today, I can proudly say I’m a fan of AR Rahman sir whom had finally watched him perform LIVE on the 26th April 2014 at Stadium Merdeka!
And that was how I was introduced to the legendary, AR Rahman sir 20 years ago.
Slowly, listening to the song played by my brother on our (by then) Aiwa stereo system, I learnt about Roja. Later that day, I learnt that he was the man who created the songs of the film that I’ve watched earlier with his magic box, maybe. After the film, appa (who is also a huge fan of ARR sir) gifted brother with the Kadhalan audio cassette and ARR sir’s image was printed on the cassette cover. Yeah, I missed Roja, Gentleman and Pudhiya Mugam because I was just turning 5 when those films were released and too young to even understand what does a music composer even mean. The first film with ARR sir’s music that I’ve watched in cinema was Kadhalan when I was 7 years old.
I grew up listening to ARR sir’s songs mainly, perks of having an elder brother, Saravanan ( who has a huge collection of ARR sir’s cassettes and CDs right from Roja to the very latest Kochadaiiyaan (mostly Tamil albums). 26 th April 2014 will always be a legendary day for me.
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