HYDERABAD CHAPTER
Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.
“Cinderella”
THE RAFI HOLIDAY – A DREAM TO BECOME A REALITY
The Rafi Foundation, Hyderabad Chapter takes a great pride in announcing the launch of the RAFI HOLIDAY during October/November 2009 by visiting Bangalore and spending two days in musical company with members of the Baar Baar Rafi Fan Club and other music lovers.
Some of our members will leave Hyderabad on a Friday during the above period to reach Bangalore on Saturday morning. We will make our own travel and accommodation arrangements and request our friends in Bangalore to arrange a suitable hall for all of us to be together for two full days. The programme on Saturday and Sunday will begin by about 10.00 a.m. after breakfast and we will have singing sessions, quizzes, antakshri, group singing etc for the entire day. Lunch will be from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. and there will be tea breaks around 12.00 noon and 4.00 p.m. on both days. On Saturday, the programme will continue upto 6.00 p.m. and then our members can go for sight-seeing/visit their relatives or friends etc. On Sunday, we plan to return to Hyderabad by the evening train so that we reach Hyderabad on the morning of Monday. Hence on Sunday, the programme will be wound up by about 5.30 p.m. Those leaving from Hyderabad will travel together (RAFI YATRA) in the same train. On our return though, our members may choose to stay back in Bangalore or visit any other place and return to Hyderabad after an extended holiday.
We had announced this RAFI HOLIDAY by email earlier and also discussed in our subsequent Musical Session on 17th Aug 2009. Since our last email on the subject, we now have quite a big gathering of our members intending to take the plunge :
- A S Murty & Mrs A Vijayalakshmi
- S Chandar & Mrs Radha Chandar
- N R Padmanabhan & Mrs Swaran Lata Padmanabhan
- R Padmanabhan & Mrs Meenakshi Padmanabhan
- S Raghavendra Rao & family
- S Ramakrishna
- Sivaram & family
- Satyendra
- S K Elias
Those of our other members who are not in a position to give their names immediately, may plan according to the above and confirm to us at a later date.
After discussing with most of our members, we have fixed the dates as under :
14th & 15th November 2009
Departure : Leaving Hyderabad by KACHIGUDA-BANGALORE EXPRESS on 13th November 2009.
Return trip : 15th November, 2009 by same train.
Friends from Chennai too may make similar arrangements to reach Bangalore on the morning of 14th November 2009.
Mode of Travel on either side : 3-tier sleeper class.
We will book in group booking for our onward/return journey as per above dates. Those who do not wish to return as per above, may make their return ticket booking separately. Arrangement for our accommodation at Bangalore will also be attended to by us. However, those who need accommodation to be arranged at Bangalore by the BBR, may please let us know immediately.
Friends from BBR have been constantly talking to us and enquiring about the dates as they have to make some arrangements like hall booking etc. The above details will give them information on what needs to be looked after at Bangalore.
MUSICAL FIESTA AT BANGALORE FOR TWO DAYS
JASHN-E-RAFI
On two consequent days, the music lovers from Hyderabad and Bangalore and possibly also a few from Chennai would assemble at a hall arranged for this specific purpose from 10.00 a.m. We will have singing of songs by various members – solos, duets, group singing, etc, besides conduct of an Antakshri and also Quiz on Hindi film songs. The programmes will be co-anchored by Rafi Foundation, Hyderabad Chapter and the Baar Baar Rafi Fan Club, Bangalore. Simply stated : JASHN-E-RAFI by all counts.
At the hall, the following would be required to be arranged :
- MUSIC SYSTEM WITH DVD PLAYER
- SOUND AND MIKE SYSTEMS ( four cordless mikes )
- ARRANGEMENT FOR WATER/TEA & SNACKS, ETC.
- Placing of Banners of Rafi Foundation and Baar Baar Rafi Fan Club
- Seating arrangement.
- LUNCH ON THE TWO DAYS.
Since the duration of the singing on two days is very lengthy, our members would get maximum time to present their choicest songs. Hence it is imperative that we go there fully prepared – lyrics, music tunes in CDs, etc.
The duets should be also rehearsed extensively so that we get to hear the best renditions in a clinical manner.
Our members would do well to prepare their list of songs from now onwards and equip themselves with all the necessary ingredients like the lyrics, names of movies etc, karaoke tunes wherever necessary etc.
Since the programme will be co-anchored, we require the full list of songs of each of our participants in advance. This is a must so that meaningful announcements can be made and there is little loss of time.
We will get to meet and interact with the best of music lovers at Bangalore viz. Asha, Manish, BG Raj, Ananya, Hemanth Sharma, etc, to name only a few of them. There are many more of them. We will also get to meet some of the best enclopaedias on Hindi Films.
Those unable to sing with Karaoke tunes, will possibly be also assisted by some Tabla/Harmonium locally arranged at Bangalore. We will discuss these and many more issues with the BBR and send info to all our members through emails in the coming weeks.
The RAFI HOLIDAY must be made an annual event from now onwards. We at Hyderabad would like to host it the next year and extend invitation to Rafi-bhakts from Bangalore, Chennai and elsewhere to spend two days around the same time next year (2010) in Hyderabad. Chennai would get to host the same event in the year thereafter and so on and so forth.
Friends, dreams are made of thoughts and emotions. There is a certain aura of dreaming as long as they are all positive thoughts. And to achieve them takes only a little effort and will from us. There is no gainsaying in postponing such dreams for eternity – that will only leave us leading a life half-done. We certainly can never attain everything in life, for our dreams cannot be curtailed. But wherever possible and according to the needs and times and our own interests, we do tend to realize some of them every now and then. Also we all travel to go sight-seeing, pilgrimages, visits to relatives for functions and marriages etc and in all the focal reason has always been to ‘enjoy life’. Have any of us ventured into a musical journey earlier ? Perhaps yes, and maybe not in many cases. So why not utilize this opportunity to realize our cherished dream of being in the company of all like-minded music lovers – at least those known to us. We will all carry the memorable event for the rest of our lives in our memory. Photographs will be taken, video coverage will be made for all of us to re-live the occasion again and again in the later years.
We are sure many more from Hyderabad will opt for this upcoming and one of the most enchanting phases in our lives. We will try to make this a regular feature from next year onwards, but like it was said elsewhere above, postponement of our dreams can only dilute the fulfilment value attached to it.
A S MURTY
Rafi Foundation,
Hyderabad Chapter.
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