thiruvasakam in symphony

Digression...

raaja rasikan,
trichy-super bazaar-malai kOttai....are you aware of supersonic recording center ??

-yet another raaja rasaikan

I got a mail!!!



I am here to share with you, some important points of the discussion I
had with Rev Fr Jegath Gasper Raj yesterday, after I got an urgent
call from him. Narasimman was with me when I met him. Father wanted
the following details to be conveyed to all of us:

1) The audio company for Thiruvasakam would be decided within two or
three days from yesterday and the release would be very soon
throughout India, by a single company.

2) They would purchase the rights under Royalty basis and they may not
be expected to spend any amount on advertisements or promotions.
Hence, though the project will be released, we will not have enough
profits to take care of the heavy loans that Rev Fr Jegath has
personally incurred. So, the success of the project lies in our hands.

3) We have already collected a lot of ideas from our club members
regarding marketing of the product and Father asked me to convey his
personal thanks to everyone who gave the ideas. Now, we are in the
next phase. We need volunteers for doing field work.

4) Field work includes volunteership for staying in temporary stalls
which may be put up in several temples or public places on festival
days for selling the CD's/cassettes. It does not mean that only people
who can do this should be volunteers. If you feel you have any plan of
marketing and you could offer yourself towards the implementation of
the same, you are welcome to key in your ideas.

5) If you can collect considerable number of pre-orders from your
office or in places where you work, Father is even ready to come to
your place personally for the sale of CD's.

6) A data bank about the festivals to come in major temples, Tamil
organisations, saivaite trusts, etc has to be charted out. We can
decide among the volunteers as to who will look after the stalls at
that place, depending on who is free at that time. This will be of
much help in making Thiruvasakam profitable, which is necessary for
covering the loans and more so for the Tsunami relief, as decided by
Maestro and Tamil Maiyam.

7) A press meet can be expected very soon in the next week for
announcing the release. Maestro and people from Tamil Maiyam will be
addressing the press. Father is planning to call for a meeting of
Maestro's fans who are interested in this project. It is again our
privilege that he has asked us to co-ordinate the fans, as we are
already doing it. Hence, we will be getting more work force soon. What
remains from our side is that we have to plan our work correctly so
that we can select apt persons from the extra hands to use them
effectively for this project's success.

On a note of conclusion, I request all of us who are willing to
volunteer to kindly send in their names to our club, as soon as
possible. Volunteers can be from any place in the world. Let us charge
with our full strength to repay Maestro for what all He has done to us!

Raja Rasigan

I dare to say, i myself can sell you quite a number of albums...plz price it at Rs.200/- per CD. I shall easily sell a minimum of 100 CD's among my friends.....So calculate the entire Raaja fans...


_ If you can really do that ,nothing like that !!!!!!!! Plz continue this service !!!

From: Shankar on Fri Feb 4 15:31:31 2005

Digression...

raaja rasikan,
trichy-super bazaar-malai kOttai....are you aware of supersonic recording center ??

-yet another raaja rasaikan

yes very much Shankar..but i preferred "Melody Musicals" they had a large variety and better quality of Raaja Songs, now i only rely on net....

Mumbai Ramki, i really dunno whether you are ridiculing me or serious....but all i can say is that if the guys can price the CD a fair price, it wont be tough for me to push a minimum number of quantities i said....

I stand by my words...

Raja Rasigan
Sathiyama ridicule pannala .....!!!!!! That is genuine very much !!!

** Offensive post deleted **

Good work moderator(s). Let sanity prevail.

OK

I got a mail.. things r taking momentum after a long pause.

"Dear Friends,

I met Rev Fr Jegath Gasper Raj at 6 pm along with Narasimman, Ramji, Rajesh Kanna & Vel Ramanan on February 8, 2005, following his call that I received in the morning. As decided previously, it was the first of the frequent meetings that Father wanted to have with us.
The salient points announced and discussed in the meeting were:

1) Maestro meets the press on February 10, 2005 to announce that the project has been completed and is ready for release.
2) In the same Press Meet, Father will call for a meeting of Maestro's fans at some common place to discuss about the project, its release, implementation of marketing ideas, allotting responsibilities to the volunteers and any related point as the situation may demand with the permission of Time.
3) The probable date for the meeting will be February 20, 2005 and the time may be 4 pm. The venue has to be decided and the whole programme is yet to be confirmed. But, everything will be ready at the time of the Press Meet.
4) Our club will be posting an advertisement welcoming all the fans who would attend the meeting, in at least two daily newspapers. The advertisement will be having Maestro's photograph, our club's web address and the details about the date, venue & timings of the meeting for the fans. Probably, Tamil Maiyam's logo and name may be
used along with the content. Apart from this, the design and content required for the caption are to be planned soon. Ideas for or even completed designs are welcome from all of us.
5) After the meeting with the fans is over, we will plan our further course of action. We are planning for hoardings in important areas of major cities, starting from Chennai initially. Since paper advertisements and hoardings involve a good deal of money, all members among us who are willing to take part in the financial budget for these measures may kindly contact me personally at
drjvvr@yahoo.com with a cc marked to Ramji at amjis2@yahoo.com. Since this is a separate form of donation to the project (in kind) compared to the donation that we have been and still are collecting (as money) on one side, I request all of those who volunteer, to
kindly mention whether they want their donation to reach Tamil Maiyam as money or if they would allow us to keep the money till we reach a significant amount, so that it could be used collectively for a high budget way of advertising like placing hoardings. All details of the accounts will be made available online as and when money reaches and leaves us, as soon as possible.
6) We handed over the list of volunteers registered so far, to Father. He was interested to note that volunteers were from Chennai, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Kanpur and Singapore. But we were personally wondering why we never received any mail from Bangalore or Kerala, where the need of volunteers is much more important. Anyhow, Father
felt people would join in soon and the project would become a Model Project for anybody who would try anything of this sort in future.
7) Father was very happy to see the links of the groups interested in World Music, especially the ones collected by Vijaygen and Vel Ramanan. He encouraged all of us to collect more and more of them, as they appeared to be potentially strong areas for both the spread of the project's message and its profitable sales too. So, I guess we can concentrate more on collecting these contact information and passing it on to Father for him to contact them professionally on behalf of Tamil Maiyam, the Producer.
8) Father reviewed Ramji's work on the website of Tamil Maiyam and requested him to complete the same before the Press Meet because it will have to be ready by then. Ramji is seriously working on it, along with the original designer of the site, who was introduced to him by Father himself.
9) Vel Ramanan took up the responsibility of customizing the content of the emails that would be sent to any specific world music organization and sending it to Father, who in turn, would send it from his id to the organization. This arrangement is needed because if the same email is sent to all organizations, those of them which have little relevance to the theme of our project would just leave the mail in the trash can. There is another danger of Tamil Maiyam's server from which the mail will be sent, being black-marked as a spamming server.
10) Finally, when we came out it was 7:30 pm and Father had to rush for a meeting. In fact, he had spent a lot more of his time with us than that was originally planned. After that, we had discussion among ourselves and felt that it would be better if our club members could search for core groups that would be interested in Thiruvasakam like Tamil Organizations (in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata
and many other cities in India and abroad also), Cultural Bodies, Literary Societies, Bhakthi Trusts, etc and get the list of contact addresses so that our project would reach their hands too. I hope many of us will turn up with fantastic links.
I think I have covered up all the details that I remember to the best of my memory. If any of the others feel that you have to add something, you are welcome to do so.

Hoping to see the fruits of our sweat soon. "

Hi Folks

TIS is going to be released on April 14th.

There was a press meet today in chennai and please visit
http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NewsID={723152D8-E1A2-4059-9E39-ECB9FF39B0C5}&CategoryName=CHN

for details