tribute arr @GIMA.
ARR was awarded a special momento at the GIMA 2012 which was handed over by Yash Chopra for completing 20 years in Film Music.
Yashji was all praise for Rahman and said he was very fortunate and proud to have him compose for JTHJ....
Before this...a special musical tribute was performed by Singers & Musicians from Roja to Rockstar. It was a Medley of beautiful songs and was so refreshing to see all vintage singers performing.
Started of with Lagaan theme, followed by "Dil hai chhota sa" by Sadhna Sargam. She was joined by Hariharan for "Chanda re". Then Naveen took his magical flute to play the Bombay theme which was merged by "Tu hi re". Udit Narayan entered with "Mitwa" and Alka Yagnik complemented him.She then rendered the beautiful "Mehndi hai rachnewali" which got the loudest applause. Naresh Iyer's "Robaroo" got the house completely grooving and Mohit's "Saadda Haq" was the anthem of the evening. After all this heavy music...Sonu Nigam entered from the audience with just his voice singing a prelude to "Saathiya". This was the highlight as the entire somg was sung in Acapella style with no music but only Vocals & Chorus. Finally all singers joined in to sing "Jai ho" and calling Rahman on stage...This was the best gift and a pleasant surprise for ARR!
Do watch out the telecast whenever its gonna happen...
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