Garba Night With KTJH | Sunday, 21 October 2012
Greetings !!
This is my first blog post. I don't know what should I write,where to start from...lets give it a chance .... firstly from deep of my heart many thanks to KTJH for giving this opportunity
Members:
Mayank,Lavish,Abhinandan,Arpit,Anubhuti,Aditi,Monika,Richa,Archana,Ajay
Flashback
The story starts from Tuesday(16th Oct) when Abhinandan asked in his group post to plan for dandiya/garba. Discussion started and people stated giving their views, some of them even started searching for the places. As far as I am concerned I was not interested for dandiya or garba(ab yaar nachna to aata nahi apne ko or aise hi kamar matkaenge to sab hasi udange.... ) so I was on back foot. We also had a group chat on Friday the19th about the same and very few people showed interest so we dropped the plan.
Dandiya/Garba Plan Returns
As some or other members of group come for poojan in Wilson Garden temple on every Sunday this time it were Rishabh,Anubhuti,Nitin,Abhinandan,Lavish and me, we did pooja and bhakti. On the way back we(me and lavish) started discussing about feasibility of the plan for Dandiya. I was less interested but then Lavish said this time will not come back this clicked in my mind and I said I'm in
We called Mayank and by chance he was also around MG Road so we gathered @ my room(Ulsoor). We had yummy jave(saevaiya) and chivda(poha) prepared by Arpit and Lavish respectively, both items were too good. By now we 4 were ready to go for Dandiya so we started asking all the group members and finally 10 members were ready.
Masti @Entrance of Venue(Palace Grounds Bangalore)
There was fun in the night from starting here is where it started:
Mayank,Anubhuti,Aditi and Archana were waiting for us(Lavish,Arpit,Monika,Richa and me) in front of the gate of Palace Grounds(the venue). We were coming in an Auto(yeah the auto was overloaded ), nobody among us knew the exact destination(the gate) so I was talking to Mayank(the coordinator) about where we should get down and all. We saw a gate(something was written on it we were not bothered about the same) and suddenly Mayank said I see you ... are you in red Kurta I said yes...we were not able to see Mayank but though we immediately stopped the Auto in front of a gate. Auto driver asked 3 times are you sure you want to get down here and we said yes yes yes .
We crossed the road and guess what we were in front of the entrance of a wedding ceremony, we called Mayank again this time he asked is Monika in red? I said yes sir so he said turn around I turned but we were not able to see him. Now we realized that we have to walk around 400m to reach the correct gate
Saved good bucks
We all reached the venue at 9pm except Abhinandan. Now it was time to enter, Girls were leading the way and the fun started when they walked briskly, we(boys) were confused why girls are in so hurry when they don't even have pass. All girls entered without pass but when we(boys) were about to enter an uncle stopped us and asked us about the pass, he was not alone there were 2-4 bouncers(vo hi kale kapde vale pahalvaan) with him so we stopped but we were happy... ye log ladkiyo se paise lena hi bhool gaye.... kind off feeling aa rahi thi. So we paid for four of us and entered. After meeting the girls we came to know that there were some free entries for girls/ladies and they all get the same that's why they were in hurry.
Garba and Dandiya masti
Now we were in the premises.. yaar this is good i mean everywhere people in Indian traditional dresses.. mast vala feel aa raha tha.. But we were not having dandiya so we bought them(yeah as usual Mayank and Lavish were able to bargain and we paid Rs100 less in total).
It was around 9:15 pm the program was scheduled to start at 10 so we started with group pics, within 10 mins an uncle came to us and said "photography is not allowed here vo bouncer aake camera le jayega aap logo ka"... ab yaar dara diya unhone to vo tagde-tagde pahlvaan kaha aur hum kaha to humne chupchap camera ander rakh liya
We were still outside the hall on the green grass under the blue sky, we decided to do some practice before entering the arena and in the mean time Abhinandan also arrived.
Practice session
We started the practice session Anubhuti,Lavish and Mayank were telling us some steps, we all tried, we all started moving in round circle. We formed two concentric circles. The people in inner one were moving clock wise and the others anti-clock wise and hitting dandiya of each other. It was good we enjoyed like this until we went in the hall.
"Lets go in" someone said among us and now we were in the hall ... Oh my god so much crowd and almost everyone was in traditional dress. There was three concentric circles, in inner two there were participants who were wearing traditional Gujrati dress and I must say all were looking fabulous. First time I saw actual Garba steps. People were moving in 2-3 parallel lines and that was too good... I mean so many people dancing together. Environment was full of positive energy, we entered in the outer most circle(which was for general public) and joined the Garba.
Garba
This was the best part of the trip we started moving in round all doing Garba(may not be proper but yes we tried). For me it was awesome experience, yeah "awesome" is the only word i want use for this experience I learned steps from Anubhuti,Aditi,Monika( left left right right) and enjoyed the same a lot. Archana was senior among us for Garba as she came on the previous night also, she was doing better than us and here dress was also supporting her, as it was rotating like ghagra. We enjoyed every bit of it.
Sometime we stopped in between for a while and then continue... I guess i am short on words for the joy that we felt at that time .
Sandhya Bhojan
After so much Garba and bhagam-bhag, it was time for pate-pooja so we headed towards dinning hall. We had Masala Dosa,Bhel puri and Rice all food items were ok ok. Ab kuch meetha ho jaye.... There was a chuski(barf ka gola) wala and all agreed to have chuski but suddenly all felt that their throat will be gone so all canceled but Monika and I said in Salman's style ek baar keh dia to keh dia... So we two had chuski and all other had coffee.
Back in Arena
Now we were back in the Runbhumi but Aarti was going on so we waited and played "chidya udd tota udd"....one of the best games that we play in KTJH. In some time dandiya started with old hindi songs in dandiya tune... We enjoyed dandiya but not that much as we enjoyed the Garba(actual dandiya songs to play hi nahi kiye unhone). For sometime we moved in circle among us but then someone(i guess organizer) said to move in complete circle i.e in parallel lines... now this was unexpected ...we were playing dandiya with unknown people...We felt mix of good/bad. After sometime we realized that we were enjoying more in Garba so we decided to dance and rotate in a circle and "lets do whatever you are comfortable with" Archana said ... This was good idea and it brought us back to that enjoyment level.
Finally, it was time to go home. We left around 1.30am. One more nice evening with KTJH ends here.
Ajay Jain
Greetings !!
This is my first blog post. I don't know what should I write,where to start from...lets give it a chance .... firstly from deep of my heart many thanks to KTJH for giving this opportunity
Members:
Mayank,Lavish,Abhinandan,Arpit,Anubhuti,Aditi,Monika,Richa,Archana,Ajay
Flashback
The story starts from Tuesday(16th Oct) when Abhinandan asked in his group post to plan for dandiya/garba. Discussion started and people stated giving their views, some of them even started searching for the places. As far as I am concerned I was not interested for dandiya or garba(ab yaar nachna to aata nahi apne ko or aise hi kamar matkaenge to sab hasi udange.... ) so I was on back foot. We also had a group chat on Friday the19th about the same and very few people showed interest so we dropped the plan.
Dandiya/Garba Plan Returns
As some or other members of group come for poojan in Wilson Garden temple on every Sunday this time it were Rishabh,Anubhuti,Nitin,Abhinandan,Lavish and me, we did pooja and bhakti. On the way back we(me and lavish) started discussing about feasibility of the plan for Dandiya. I was less interested but then Lavish said this time will not come back this clicked in my mind and I said I'm in
We called Mayank and by chance he was also around MG Road so we gathered @ my room(Ulsoor). We had yummy jave(saevaiya) and chivda(poha) prepared by Arpit and Lavish respectively, both items were too good. By now we 4 were ready to go for Dandiya so we started asking all the group members and finally 10 members were ready.
Masti @Entrance of Venue(Palace Grounds Bangalore)
There was fun in the night from starting here is where it started:
Mayank,Anubhuti,Aditi and Archana were waiting for us(Lavish,Arpit,Monika,Richa and me) in front of the gate of Palace Grounds(the venue). We were coming in an Auto(yeah the auto was overloaded ), nobody among us knew the exact destination(the gate) so I was talking to Mayank(the coordinator) about where we should get down and all. We saw a gate(something was written on it we were not bothered about the same) and suddenly Mayank said I see you ... are you in red Kurta I said yes...we were not able to see Mayank but though we immediately stopped the Auto in front of a gate. Auto driver asked 3 times are you sure you want to get down here and we said yes yes yes .
We crossed the road and guess what we were in front of the entrance of a wedding ceremony, we called Mayank again this time he asked is Monika in red? I said yes sir so he said turn around I turned but we were not able to see him. Now we realized that we have to walk around 400m to reach the correct gate
Saved good bucks
We all reached the venue at 9pm except Abhinandan. Now it was time to enter, Girls were leading the way and the fun started when they walked briskly, we(boys) were confused why girls are in so hurry when they don't even have pass. All girls entered without pass but when we(boys) were about to enter an uncle stopped us and asked us about the pass, he was not alone there were 2-4 bouncers(vo hi kale kapde vale pahalvaan) with him so we stopped but we were happy... ye log ladkiyo se paise lena hi bhool gaye.... kind off feeling aa rahi thi. So we paid for four of us and entered. After meeting the girls we came to know that there were some free entries for girls/ladies and they all get the same that's why they were in hurry.
Garba and Dandiya masti
Now we were in the premises.. yaar this is good i mean everywhere people in Indian traditional dresses.. mast vala feel aa raha tha.. But we were not having dandiya so we bought them(yeah as usual Mayank and Lavish were able to bargain and we paid Rs100 less in total).
It was around 9:15 pm the program was scheduled to start at 10 so we started with group pics, within 10 mins an uncle came to us and said "photography is not allowed here vo bouncer aake camera le jayega aap logo ka"... ab yaar dara diya unhone to vo tagde-tagde pahlvaan kaha aur hum kaha to humne chupchap camera ander rakh liya
We were still outside the hall on the green grass under the blue sky, we decided to do some practice before entering the arena and in the mean time Abhinandan also arrived.
Practice session
We started the practice session Anubhuti,Lavish and Mayank were telling us some steps, we all tried, we all started moving in round circle. We formed two concentric circles. The people in inner one were moving clock wise and the others anti-clock wise and hitting dandiya of each other. It was good we enjoyed like this until we went in the hall.
"Lets go in" someone said among us and now we were in the hall ... Oh my god so much crowd and almost everyone was in traditional dress. There was three concentric circles, in inner two there were participants who were wearing traditional Gujrati dress and I must say all were looking fabulous. First time I saw actual Garba steps. People were moving in 2-3 parallel lines and that was too good... I mean so many people dancing together. Environment was full of positive energy, we entered in the outer most circle(which was for general public) and joined the Garba.
Garba
This was the best part of the trip we started moving in round all doing Garba(may not be proper but yes we tried). For me it was awesome experience, yeah "awesome" is the only word i want use for this experience I learned steps from Anubhuti,Aditi,Monika( left left right right) and enjoyed the same a lot. Archana was senior among us for Garba as she came on the previous night also, she was doing better than us and here dress was also supporting her, as it was rotating like ghagra. We enjoyed every bit of it.
Sometime we stopped in between for a while and then continue... I guess i am short on words for the joy that we felt at that time .
Sandhya Bhojan
After so much Garba and bhagam-bhag, it was time for pate-pooja so we headed towards dinning hall. We had Masala Dosa,Bhel puri and Rice all food items were ok ok. Ab kuch meetha ho jaye.... There was a chuski(barf ka gola) wala and all agreed to have chuski but suddenly all felt that their throat will be gone so all canceled but Monika and I said in Salman's style ek baar keh dia to keh dia... So we two had chuski and all other had coffee.
Back in Arena
Now we were back in the Runbhumi but Aarti was going on so we waited and played "chidya udd tota udd"....one of the best games that we play in KTJH. In some time dandiya started with old hindi songs in dandiya tune... We enjoyed dandiya but not that much as we enjoyed the Garba(actual dandiya songs to play hi nahi kiye unhone). For sometime we moved in circle among us but then someone(i guess organizer) said to move in complete circle i.e in parallel lines... now this was unexpected ...we were playing dandiya with unknown people...We felt mix of good/bad. After sometime we realized that we were enjoying more in Garba so we decided to dance and rotate in a circle and "lets do whatever you are comfortable with" Archana said ... This was good idea and it brought us back to that enjoyment level.
Finally, it was time to go home. We left around 1.30am. One more nice evening with KTJH ends here.
Ajay Jain
hahahahhaahaha mast dance kiya tha sbne.... hehehehee....nw m soooooo confident abt dancing on anyyy song ... any kind of music :P :D :D
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