Pages

A. R. Rahman - Is he the best musician?


Allah Rakha Rehman (A. R Rehman), Indian film composer, musician & singer is truly the best for the current time & ages to come.

He has been awarded with 13 Filmfare awards (its one of the oldest & prestigious award event for Indian Movies) & with 4 National Awards. His music not only blessed Indians, but its now globally accepted to be the best. And why not, "Slumdog Millionaire", an Indo-British movie, won Oscar for the best motion picture for 2008 & made it mark specially for its music. This was a first solid opportunity for Rahman to get a deserving Global exposure & he scored on the first go.

National achievements weren't enough, now he is acclaimed with 3 awards at two most prominent Award events, he is the first Indian to get a Golden globe award & first Indian to get TWO Academy Awards (Original Score & Original Song for 2008), what an achievement.

Started his career with a small mixing studio in his backyard which was later developed to be the most advanced recording studio in India. He played Keyboard & piano in his rock band "Nemesis Avenue" at Chennai. He now plays keyboard when he compose music, that's the reason apart from his music composing talent the creative tunes from his Keyboard makes it to be the best. :)

And why not he is also the world's "all-time top selling recording artist" for more than 300 million music media to be sold by far.

One of his masterpiece is "Fanaa" from the movie album "Yuva" & to get an essence of how great he is at the keyboard listen to this "O Humdum Suniyo Re" from the movie album "Saathiya".

And obviously the very famous "Jai Ho" with A. R. Rahman & Pussycat Dolls, featuring Nicole Scherzinger. But this track isn't even any closer to his other ones :)

Top 10 TV Shows

I've been watching TV shows for a while now & for what I've seen this is what I think (In fact I might have seen like 20-25 in all, so too early to list them out, but still best by far to me :))) ):


1. Lost (2004-Present):
A plane crash at a wrong / weird place & with survivors on them. And its just one island in there horizon with lot of mysteries to be explored... Best in its first & fifth season. Will be back in Jan 2010 with its final sixth season. The best I feel by far "Get lost in LOST"
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/

2. Entourage (2004-Present):
Entourage (A group surrounding a Special Person). Really does stands for its name. Vincent Chase "Vince" is a struggling Hollywood actor, starts the series with a hit movie in his bag. And his three friends, its a nice LA /Hollywood based story. Specailly look for the role of "Ari Gold" played by Jeremy Piven
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387199/

3. True Blood (2008-Present):
If you like Vampires, this is the show to watch out. The world now co-exists between humans & Vampires, with Artificial blood for Vampires "True Blood", so both the races can co-exist. Lot of thrill & on the wire on particular second seasons rocks.
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844441/

4. Prison Break (2005-Present):
This series run with the seasons, first the best & looses its charm with its seasons. But still first two were simply good. Wentworth Miller acting as Michael Scofield, [extraordinarily smart] planning to eacape his brother who is in prison from a death sentence.
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455275/

5. Rome (2005-2007):
Set in 52B.C, nice sets, nice costumes & nice plot. One of its kind & very good show.
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/

6. Heroes (2006-Present):
Based on super-natural powers to handful special humans. How are they connected, a nice sci-fi & truly addictive.
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813715/

7. Reapers (2007-Present):
Sam Oliver is owned by Satan, revolves around this ordinary guy, who now is working for Satan as a soul Reaper. Aesome comedy act from Tyler Labine
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955322/

8. Friends (1994-2004):
Most popular show around the globe, I used to watch this when I was in India. Filled with comedy, romance & lot of funn & trust me you wont stop laughing on this one.
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/

9. Hung (June 2009-P):
Newest show in 2009, a very different & truly hilarious. Haha, really different :)
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229413/

10. The Black Donnellys (2007):
It is based on 4 Irish brothers for whom family does matters. Based in New-York on how they get into crime, young blood. Didn't make to its second season due to some ban issues, but first was amazing.
Check out on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805661/