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[marnsZet]

Public passes were sold for money .. no doubts about it

Very much the case.One person from chennai who was seated next to me had bought the free pass for 500 rs. And those who bought those passes couldnot get the free cds and posters.

[Anban]

Very much the case.One person from chennai who was seated next to me had bought the free pass for 500 rs. And those who bought those passes couldnot get the free cds and posters.

I got free cd and poster

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

NEPV Effect is sure to bring some current directors to Raja. Its just that Raja has to agree!

http://tamil.oneindia.in/movies/news...ck-161806.html

[San_K]

One of the thoughts that came up while watching the show was how do the numbers work for such a show

Getting 50 EU musicians to Chennai for a show - the mere travel / stay and such mundane stuff could easily cost around $100K...add another $100K for their professional fees, other expenses (venue / Mano recording etc) - even if one considers the NEPV crew themselves didn't charge any and the local celebrities too offered to be on the show free of cost - the cost of such a show could easily touch Rs 1 cr ($200K).

Per SKV's estimate, there was a crowd of 3K or so and the tickets couldn't have covered more than 30-40% of that expenses.

Are the rest all by TV rights? Sponsors? How does even Gautam talk about donating money to charity from the proceeds?

TV rights is way bigger than any other income for this type of programmes. Even a mokkka 'kail nigazhi' can get 1 Cr. Personnally I know kalaignar TV paid nearly 1.5+ cr for Yuvan's first live concert (dubai). It is noted that his dubai concert is not successful as his second one held at Chennai.

[San_K]

seating is 4 sides and one side completely abandoned for the sake of brammaandamaana Stage. This is the case for almost all events incl the recent MSV function. (But for Kamal-50 all 4 sided were used)

So u can reduce 1250 safely, add some 1K at both corners and ~ 3K

Nehru Indoor status is for Tennis. right? Then, what about the crowd sat inside the court? .

[app_engine]

TV rights is way bigger than any other income for this type of programmes.

Me too think so

I'm sorry for raising that query yesterday without watching the whole program.

It was towards the end that Gautam says 'money from tickets' goes to charity.

So, it's very clear that the expenses for the event got funded otherwise (by movie producer / TV rights / sponsors). Just the revenue from entry tickets / passes went to charity

[rooky]

Nehru indoor stadium is not meant for tennis. This indoor stadium was built for the SAF games 1995 and is meant for games like Table tennis, Basketball, Volleyball, etc.. (same purpose as for any indoor stadium)

[writeface]

Watched the entire program via Yupp TV. I really liked RK Selvamani's speech. Instead of going overboard with empty praise he was frank (respectfully) about the reality of working with IR.

I am glad Gautham took the effort in organizing this event. It is unimaginable and a long time dream come true. As someone mentioned the facial expressions of musicians reflected their joy in performing in IR's music.

Loved the bit when Sivamani joined in during the aasai nooru vagai.

IR mentioned in the end that the conductor Nick had to recreate the notes for the orchestra. What happened to the original notes IR wrote for the orchestra? I must have missed something.

Gokul

[irir123]

three ppl in TFM who benefitted the most / maximum from IR during the 1980s were absent at the NEPV music launch function:

1. Mike 'kokila' Mohan - without IR's music, he would have still been a bank employee !

2. Ramarajan - without IR's music, his films wud have felt like dubbed/dumbed up versions of other language films.

3. Kovai Thambi - one producer whose sole source of success was IR !

there were others who shd have been there to speak abt their association with IR - Panju Arunachalam, Mani Rathnam (GVM's mentor isnt he ?), Sangili Murugan, Manivannan etc..

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

irir, it was already packed. And also this is not the last function for IR.

Above all, even tho the likes of mike mohan, ramarajan etc benefitted immensely becos of Raja, they know nothing about music. If they speak, it will be pure crap! Better save the headache!