And finally all the excitements about attending a live concert has calmed down now. Yesterday's ARR's concert had its own pros and cons. The experience could be rated as OK. Not tooooo good at the same time not tooooo bad too :)
Few things I loved in the show
* First comes the sound effect. Wow.. The balloons in our hands were vibrating terribly :P
* The LED effects.. For few songs the visualizations added more impact.
* Stage decorations. The lower level of the stage had orchestra and singers. The upper level had LED effects and dancers. The lighting effects and the stage effects were amazing.
* ARR's entry to the stage & his performance on the crane (Jiya se Jiya song)
* Medley by ARR (Started with Azeem-o-shan (Jodha Akbar), continued with music and humming from Rukkumani rukkumani (Roja) and ended with Veerapaandi kottaiyilae (Thiruda Thiruda) )
* Dil se re (Dil se), Taxi Taxi (Sakkarakatti), konjam nilavu (Thiruda Thiruda), Mayya Mayya (Guru) songs were my favourite performances.
* Dancers at the backdrop were the best part of the show. A visual treat to all our eyes.
* The college girls gang behind our row and guys gang behind them. They were shouting, whistling and commenting throughout the show. People in the front rows were turning again and again to watch these girls (Needless to say that I too joined the chorous shouting :P)
Few things that could have been better
* The concert was supposed to start at 6 PM. But it started only at 7.30PM. There were no announcements regarding the delay in schedule.
* More than 50% of the performances were hindi songs. And in the rest you also had malayam / telugu versions of the songs. At one point, the crowd starting shouting "We want Tamil" :))
* The huge screens they had on the sides to show live performance, captured only one person at a time. Even in group performances !!
* They said not even plastic bottles were allowed inside the auditorium. We thought we would have some options to buy water there. Adyar ananda bhavan had a stall with only snacks and juices. No water bottles :( Enna koduma sir idhu !!!
And the worst part it, we could not attend the full show. Since the travelling time was almost 2.5 hrs, we could not wait after 10.30 PM :( The show actually ended at 11.10 PM.
Finally....
On Cloud 9...
Attending a live music concert had always been my lifetime dream but never came true till date. I have never even told about this dream to many peoples. Always these concerts are held in the evenings and end at late nights which is one main reason I cant go with friends. With my parents - it would be another dream. As they both were working and father being transferred mostly to some other place. They always used to tell me to go out with my friends (for movies, beach, theme parks.. ) as they dint want me to miss out those fun just because they cant take me out :)
Once we got tickets for Shankar Mahadevan's concert held at Anna university as part of their cultural programme (Obviously, OC Tickets provided by office). But unfortunately we were not able to make it on that day :( So, for all these years it was like, I want to go but not sure how / when it will happen.
And finally, the day has come. Just a few hours back my father called up and completely surprised me by telling he got few passes for AR Rahman's live concert on 11th October. I am extremely thrilled and eagerly waiting for sunday now ;) My father said he will also come with me for the concert. So no worries about the location or late night travel :P