pre LOTR opening interview

An interview with A.R. Rahman before Lord of the Rings opened in Toronto. He talks about the first things that come to his mind when asked about the movies he's been associated with.

Volvic Ad. with Bombay theme

A.R. Rahman's Bombay theme featured in French mineral water brand Volvic's ad.

Italian Ad featuring the Mahatma

This is an Epica award winner from TELECOM ITALIA. Beautiful advertisement with Mahatma Gandhi. The words that appear at the end of the video are

Imagine the world today......


......if he could have communicated like this.

Goalaso!!!!!!!

Do keep the speakers turned on. A commentator's reaction to Ronaldinho's freekick against England in the 2002 Fifa World Cup match. Reminded me of Tony Creig going gaga over Sachin Tendulkar. Old one, but, absolutely delightful. Goalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaso!!!!

Saab performance team

The only more exciting things I've seen are aircraft formations!

The Lost Window

Shot by Vijay Prabakaran for the Goethe Institute competition - "Power of language"

CREW

Cast : Dorothy Thompson , Mathangi
Voice : Jaya Padmanabhan
Director/Writer/Editor : Vijay Prabakaran
Producer : Swathi Raghuraaman
Cameraman : Rohit Reuben Prabhu
Music : Aalaap Raju and Rahul Nambiar
Sound Engineer : Sindhu Rajaram
Language Consultant : Nidheesh Gopalan

One armed bass wonder!

"Bill Clements is a Michigan bass player with one arm (or at least one hand). Fortunately, it's his left arm, and he's exceptionally good at playing jazz bass with it (and a bandanna tied around the neck to stop notes ringing on).

Speechless! Wish I had half the motivation he had!

Allah Rakha

"Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha ask questions to each other in a sawal-jawab segment near the climax of a performance of Raga Bhimpalasi at the Monterey Pop Festival".

Ustad Allah Rakha, father of the tabla virtuoso Ustad Zakhir Hussain is credited for having raised the status of the tabla to that of a solo instrument.

Discography


Monterey Trivia

Monterey Pop Festival, held in 1967 was the big momma of all rock fests.

Almost all the artistes appeared and played for free except Pt. Ravi Shankar who took home $3000.

It was the first major rock act for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

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I had the pleasure of watching Pt. Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar live when they had come to Lawrence during their US tour. Their entourage was packed with some amazing musicians both Hindustani and Carnatic and the jugalbandi was a musical treat.

Palghat Mani Iyer

A thani avarthanam by Palghat( for some reason i like Palakkadu better) Mani Iyer aka PMI regarded the best mridangam player that ever was, here accompanying Alathur Srinivasa Iyer. Worshipable talent. The violinist is Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. A rare classic. More here

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