the best SELlers....

The SEL in caps stand for Shankar Ehsaan and Loy , the 3 awesome ppl who performed on Saarang in the eve of Republic Day 2006. Luckily we got a leave on Republic Day
:)and who wud miss the mother of all culturals, 14 of us made it atlast. This time the number of tickets were minimised due to the IISc incident and other security threats by terrorist lunatics.
The show started at around 7:00 and Shankar made us stand breathless for the 1st 5 minutes. Amazing exhibhition of vocal wizardry. Compared to last year the show was very much interesting coz Shankar made the entire concert interactive. Usually whenever we stand up and start dancing immediately the volunteers wud come to stop us. But this time Shankar himself declared that none of us shud sit. Similar to last year our dudes and dudettes performed a candle light like dance with their cell fones. Everyone has a mobile except for my friend Muthu who doesnt want to get 1 fearing his manager might call him to office :)). The Urvasi song from the movie Kaadhalan deserves a special mention, the way Shankar changed the tempo in the due course of the song was amazing. Then came the magnum opus of these 3 ppl, Dil Chahta Hai we were very much excited when they sung each and every song of this film. Shankar and co. was accompanied by Mahalakshmi Iyer and Blaze. Srinivas and Vijai Yesudas were surprise packages even though they sung just a few lines. Shankar changed our mood alternatively by mixing his fast and melodious numbers. The other guy Ehsaan did a gr8 job with his guitar, he was playing with it, and thats when i understood why some ppl say "i play guitar" mind blowing performance. When Shankar performed Pretty Woman from Kal Ho Na Ho he called some cute looking pretty women on the stage and danced with them. In the middle Shankar said that he composed some songs which is close to his heart but didnt make it well with the audience and he sung "Aaaona Aaaona..." from some movie in which Vivek Oberoi paired with Ash,that movie was a flop but i loved this song it was so melodious. While singing "Ganan Ganan.." from Lagaan Shankar stopped in the middle and said it wud rain if he completed the song, and it rained yesterday night. Simple coincidence huh. but it happened.
We all danced througout the show and had a great time, in fact we returned to our college days. Shankar ended the show with his patriotic pop number "Hindustani..".After the show some of my frends even started blabbering that "PL, TL thollai illama inniku nalla thoonguven da","College Dayku appurama inniku thaanda sema kuthu" etc. :)) in short we had a very gud time and enjoyed to the max.
Now lets come to the cons, Shankar jus sang a few lines of tamil songs, i understand that majority of the crowd likes Hindi but he shud have sung those 2 songs that fetched him national awards,(Varaaaga nadhikaraiyoram from Sangamam and Sandhana thendralai from KanduKonden). The next thing was girls, they were infact in both pro and con category. I cud c some girls delibrately overexposing themselves in the name of westerb culture, some girls standing behind me even started dancing with sleeveless mundaaas banians by waving their over coats in air. Our country has not matured enough to take this gesture in the right sense, i think it is too early to accept such changes among girls. Anyway Kadham Kadham. :)