POSTPONED – WIN AR Rahman UK concert tickets!

September 12 2016

REPOST/UPDATE: September 16 2016

IT WAS ANNOUNCED late yesterday that the AR Rahman Intimate UK tour is being rescheduled for March 2017.

The rescheduled tour itinerary is like this – March 24 at Wembley SSE Arena in London, March 25 at the Barclay Arena in Birmingham and March 26 in Manchester, at Manchester Arena.

If you want to know more about AR Rahman’s decision see here please: http://www.facebook.com/arrahman/photos/a.501914916719.273629.63441126719/10153804872681720/?type=1&theater

OLD STORY CONTINUES…

Mastro heads to the UK for a four-date tour and you can win tickets to see him…

CALLED ‘The Mozart of Madras’, AR Rahman is one of the great musical figures of our age. The double-Oscar and double-Grammy winner traverses all musical boundaries and produces such compositions that the world sits up and listens.

Whether it’s singing, composing or devising scores for films, his tracks have travelled the world and then some.

From Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008) and “127 Hours” (2010) to his tracks for the latest Bollywood historical epic, “Mohenjo Daro“, he is a man in demand and forever committed to producing the best and delivering the truly magnificient.

Now, here’s your chance to see AR Rahman live on his latest UK ‘Intimate Tour’ – we have TWO pairs of standard tickets (£35 each) each to give away.

He spoke to www.asianculturevulture.com earlier this summer about what the tour meant to him and how it would be different to his previous concerts in the UK, especially compared to last year.

We have ONE pair for the London concert at The SSE Wembley Arena on Thursday September 22, and ANOTHER PAIR for the one in Manchester on September 30.

AR Rahman will be joined by a stellar list of musicians – it was announced only lasy week that Benny Dayal, Neeti Mohan, Jonita Gandhi and Haricharan will join him on this tour. Dayal is expected to duet with him.

All are well-known names in the Indian music industry and some have huge followings of their own – Dayal performed at the London Mela last year and Haricharan is regarded as a Tamil sensation.

Dayal is a phenomena Rahman helped nuture – uncovering him and extolling his abilities as first heard in the Malayalam film, “By The People” (2005). He is also a well-established Bollywood playback singer now, and his tracks feature in the hits, “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” (2011), and “Student of the Year” (2012) .

Gandhi is Indo-Canadian who sings in several Indian languages and first came to prominence when she sang on the Shah Rukh Khan hit film, “Chennai Express” (2013) along with Vishal Shekhar. She went onto feature in the popular “Highway” (2014) and then more recently in “Dishoom” (2016). Her voice also graces the Mani Ratnam modern romance story, “OK Kanmani” (2015) . See links below.

Mohan (pictured right) made it through TV, first appearing in an Indian reality contest show, “Popstars” and has gone on to carve out a career in Bollywood as a playback singer. Her track “Bang Bang” with Dayal is one of the biggest hits of recent times.

Haricharan (pictured) burst onto the scene in 2005 and remains on the biggest selling Tamil artists of the artists of the day.

AR Rahman said: “After the successful 18-date ‘Intimate’ tour in the US last year, we really wanted to bring it over to the UK. The show has all kinds of songs, some are Hindi, some Punjabi – there’s a lot of music to hear! I am so happy to be sharing the stage and my intimate tour with four artists I really respect. It will be a pleasure to invite Benny, Neeti, Jonita and Hari on stage with me.”

The tickets for London and Manchester can only be won seperately, so please state YOUR preference.

How to enter

Please answer the question below and email to editor@asianculturevulture.com and put in the subject line, AR Rahman and make sure your email reaches us by 4pm on Friday, March 3 2017. These are for standard tickets.

QUESTION: What is AR Rahman’s nickname as stated in this article?

Send you answer to editor@asianculturevulture.com and remember to
– use an active email and one you have ready access to (ideally on your phone)
– include a day time tel no (nos. won’t be used for any other purpose than notification in conjuntion with this competition).
– State whether you want the winning tickets to be for London OR Manchester

You must be 18 and resident in the UK. All correct answers will go into a prize draw. The winners should be notified by Monday, March 6 2017, so if you haven’t heard by then, you can assume you have not won tickets.

GOOD LUCK!

Special meet and greet tickets, and other tickets from £35 are also available, check packages from websites below…

See http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/A-R-Rahman-tickets/artist/853329
See http://robomagiclive.com/event/ar-rahman/

Previously
AR Rahman interview with www.asianculturevulture.com about ‘Intimate Tour’
Review of Bollywood ‘Highway’ film
Review of Mani Ratnam’s controversial (for India) ‘OK Kanmani’