My CONCERT quotient

Just been from the Woodstock of India. Our Oscar winner a.k.a A.R.Rehman performed with his JAI HO gig, it was a class apart. Around 70,000 people turned up for this show which was for a social cause, just imagine the funds generated (Hopefully, its all in good hands). Around 15,000 car's in the parking lot, so it was like the whole of Chennai was driving in ECR ;-).


My Concert quotient
  1. Concerts are best on TV unless you get a free ticket or your buying the costliest one- We got a decent 300 rupee ticket (the costliest being 10,000/- ... only ;-)) and guess what !!...A.R.Rehman was just a moving dot for me from where I was standing ;-), but the projection screen was good enough (no problems).
  2. Advertise on Parking lots, Tolls & other stops- I seriously feel, its so damn worth the penny. Where on earth you get to advertise yourself for free to 70,000 people. Just printing around 50,000 booklets for free distribution can do wonders to a business.
  3. If you are giving a performance somewhere, you should make an effort to understand the management- lame line, but a guy of that Stature should know how things are organized. The management was good , no doubt, but it could have been better with some good refreshments, parking system & mainly toilets (how can you expect 10 piss pots for some 45,000 penises (no comments for ladies toilet)..lols ;-D)
  4. Crowd Positioning- you know its gonna be a big ticket show, Why not surprise the viewers with something they dint anticipate. A little more expenditure on the crowd placement would have really made a difference.
  5. Know the exact venue, not where its near to- really, this "near to mahaballipuram" was a total turnoff. We started and our drive was never ending, really I pity the guy who drove us (thanks man). If people knew its 30kms ahead of Mahaballipuram, the crowd would have cut down by half (but, on the other side...its a good tactics to mention the address as "near to so & so place")
  6. Song Choice- The concert was in Chennai (no actually it was Pondy ;-)) and people expected him to sing his Tamil hits but everyone got to hear his Hindi hits (Tam guys were blinking for a few). Around 80 percent was Hindi & rest Tamil. Who's the winner? guys like me who enjoy both Tamil & Hindi ;-).
  7. It doesn't matter how much ever you dress at home your going to be dead tired after 3hrs of drive. Its better to carry a perfume/deodorant (man!! I missed it ;-P).
  8. Want an experience, that's the place 2 be- once a while, do go out and shout like fools, its real fun when you get 70,000 fools to shout the same things as you.
No matter what, I just loved it. Shakti Foundation is doing a great job and I am game for the next concert which is coming up next year. Happy Diwali to all those who read it this far ;-P. Ciao

PS: what a fab office, m getting paid for blogging about the concert I attended. hehe

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