Meeting Musical Legends!!!

My lalluby when I was a kid used to be "Athai Madi Methaiyadi" a very melodious lalluby from an yesteryear movie- "Karpagam" sung by Mrs. P. Suseela Amma set to tune by the Great M.S. Viswanathan... As i grew up I began listening to various kinds of music and the tape recorder and cassettes were two things which I spent most time with....
Once I joined school I did not have much time with the tape recorder I used it only at night to listen to music. When dad used to come back home frm office he used to play cine songs eternal numbers of S.P.Balasubramanyam set to tune by Mastero Illayaraja, (read all most all songs of their combination). When I was about 8 years old. I saw a movie "Keladi Kanmani" in which Shri S.P.B had acted rather lived the role as a doting dad. (Another movie "Sigaram" which was directed by him is also worthy of mention...)This was when I knew that songs are sung by playback singers and that a whole lot of effort of various people goes into each song that is shown on screen. And that this person who was acting in the movie was the great singer who had sung most of the songs I grew up listening to. I became a huge fan of Shri S.P.B....Till date like millions of others am a great fan of him......
Last week I was overjoyed to see an invite which read " Rotary International Honours Shri S.P.B with life time achievement award" I was thrilled to see that my family was invited to the event... I was eagerly waiting for the day and the day also finally arraived!! We went to the venue there was a musical nite in honour of this event. It had all songs in the Illayaraja-S.P.B combination, I was very happy to listen to all the songs. Then the anchor of the show announced the arraival of Musical legends in the tamil filmdom: Shri M.S.V, Shri P.B.S , Shri S.P.B and music director Shri Vidyasagar.... I was the most excited person easily!!! Then I asked my parents wether I can go and speak to them and get autographs, they agreed so I slowly walked up to the front row and spoke to Shri SPB,he is the humblest person I have ever seen, he asked me why I should come all the way in the crowd to meet him & that if I had sent the autograph book through someone he would have signed and sent it back!! such is his humility(Shri S.P.B has sung 39000 songs in almost all regional languages!!)... I just told him that Iam a great fan of his and that I wanted to meet him he smiled and very kindly obliged with an autograph. Then I got blessings and autographs from Shri M.S.V, Shri P.B.S & also spoke to music director Vidyasagar who also obliged with an autograph.... I was so surprised to note that these musical legends in the filmdom are so down to earth and so humble with no-airs about themselves!!! Till date have met many celebrities & one thing that strikes me is their utmost humility... the thought that they have still miles to go in their career is the prime thought that keeps them so humble!! I bow to these musical legends and consider it my good fortune to have met them and to have been blessed by them!!
2nd January 2009 turned out to be yet another memorable day in my life.