A Job Well Done....
Yesterday was one of the most memorable days of my life....It was the Diwali show organised by ISA and ICAGA and nothing could have gone wrong...To be fair enough, I was a bit nervous before the start because of the set-up that was being made....40 mins to go and we werent getting the stuff right...That was really unnerving me...About being on stage...No tension whatsoever...i can proudly say now...BEEN THERE DONE THAT...HEMANT and ME started off the procedings by welcoming the audience and playing STAR SPANGLED BANNER...but unfortunately..it was played twice..it was a bit ridiculous....After that it was time for Dr Proenza and the Mayor to say a few words...Mr Ratanjit Singh Sondhi who was the main guest of Honor...A former Akron U graduate and now the CEO of Polycarb Industries said a few words.....AARTI followed...
It was time for the cultural events to start...Me and Hemant started off in our usual manner introducing the first event...A Bharatnatyam..Following that was an incident for which i wont forgive the person who did that...Mr Subhash Agarwal was to go in next for his song and the MC's were to introduce him..but he barged in himself and performed the songs...I was so mad...Man..me and Hemant had been sitting for 3 hours and prepared a script for the evening and he comes and spoils everything...undeterred by what he did...we went on with our prepared and at times impromptu act....Bhushan's skit was next which was well appreciated by the crowd...The audience were just beginning to enjoy themselves when Dhruv Khullar (Hrithik impersonater) danced...It was time for ME and SUNEEL to take centerstage with our Variety Singing...the audience went crazy listening to what we had to offer...
There were a couple of group dances...and then it was time for the most awaited skit...OUR ISA SKIT....Suneel, Hemant, Rajesh, Adi, Vikas, Hari. Mritunjay and MADHU...all of us had lot of fun during practice and now it was time to put our acts together on stage...the crowd was in raptures...went berserk on the jokes and it was the best performance of all the 13 events that were performed...Thanx to Kiran and Avinash who helped with the lights...
Following couple more performances..it was time to DANCE...ME and Suneel had the most number of performances..3 in all...Enjoyed dancing..it was fun...so after 2 hours of so...the audience surely knew who RAJESH was...that was good..It sure is good to be famous...
We had JANA GANA MANA at the end of the program...Like last year we had the BHARATBALA PRODUCTIONS' A.R Rehman's composition with some of INDIA'S most talented artistes singing the national anthem..It was annoying to see the crowd lined up for food before the national anthem...some of the people outside were laughing away to glory...but the worst was yet to come...some of the people started clapping once the Anthem was over...Please..no one claps for a national anthem...
Time for food...Properly belted the food (as HARI oh i am sorry...as HONEY would say!!!)
Before i end this blog...I have to say this...The work done by Madhu, Hari, Husna, Bhushan, Parag and Myself...was very painstaking..specially Madhu, Hari, Bhushan and Me..staying up all night to finish off the directory work was tough and took a lot out of us...and thanx to the audience and the Akron U crowd..the DIWALI show was worth waiting for.. A Special mention has to be made for Nikhil, Rahul, Badri and Neha who did a splendid job as co-ordinators...Lots of compliments for our play...I too got many..But the best one was from an american who said...SIR, YOU HAVE A TERRIFIC STAGE PRESENCE...YOU DID A GREAT JOB...
Thanx guys for making it worth...
Yesterday was one of the most memorable days of my life....It was the Diwali show organised by ISA and ICAGA and nothing could have gone wrong...To be fair enough, I was a bit nervous before the start because of the set-up that was being made....40 mins to go and we werent getting the stuff right...That was really unnerving me...About being on stage...No tension whatsoever...i can proudly say now...BEEN THERE DONE THAT...HEMANT and ME started off the procedings by welcoming the audience and playing STAR SPANGLED BANNER...but unfortunately..it was played twice..it was a bit ridiculous....After that it was time for Dr Proenza and the Mayor to say a few words...Mr Ratanjit Singh Sondhi who was the main guest of Honor...A former Akron U graduate and now the CEO of Polycarb Industries said a few words.....AARTI followed...
It was time for the cultural events to start...Me and Hemant started off in our usual manner introducing the first event...A Bharatnatyam..Following that was an incident for which i wont forgive the person who did that...Mr Subhash Agarwal was to go in next for his song and the MC's were to introduce him..but he barged in himself and performed the songs...I was so mad...Man..me and Hemant had been sitting for 3 hours and prepared a script for the evening and he comes and spoils everything...undeterred by what he did...we went on with our prepared and at times impromptu act....Bhushan's skit was next which was well appreciated by the crowd...The audience were just beginning to enjoy themselves when Dhruv Khullar (Hrithik impersonater) danced...It was time for ME and SUNEEL to take centerstage with our Variety Singing...the audience went crazy listening to what we had to offer...
There were a couple of group dances...and then it was time for the most awaited skit...OUR ISA SKIT....Suneel, Hemant, Rajesh, Adi, Vikas, Hari. Mritunjay and MADHU...all of us had lot of fun during practice and now it was time to put our acts together on stage...the crowd was in raptures...went berserk on the jokes and it was the best performance of all the 13 events that were performed...Thanx to Kiran and Avinash who helped with the lights...
Following couple more performances..it was time to DANCE...ME and Suneel had the most number of performances..3 in all...Enjoyed dancing..it was fun...so after 2 hours of so...the audience surely knew who RAJESH was...that was good..It sure is good to be famous...
We had JANA GANA MANA at the end of the program...Like last year we had the BHARATBALA PRODUCTIONS' A.R Rehman's composition with some of INDIA'S most talented artistes singing the national anthem..It was annoying to see the crowd lined up for food before the national anthem...some of the people outside were laughing away to glory...but the worst was yet to come...some of the people started clapping once the Anthem was over...Please..no one claps for a national anthem...
Time for food...Properly belted the food (as HARI oh i am sorry...as HONEY would say!!!)
Before i end this blog...I have to say this...The work done by Madhu, Hari, Husna, Bhushan, Parag and Myself...was very painstaking..specially Madhu, Hari, Bhushan and Me..staying up all night to finish off the directory work was tough and took a lot out of us...and thanx to the audience and the Akron U crowd..the DIWALI show was worth waiting for.. A Special mention has to be made for Nikhil, Rahul, Badri and Neha who did a splendid job as co-ordinators...Lots of compliments for our play...I too got many..But the best one was from an american who said...SIR, YOU HAVE A TERRIFIC STAGE PRESENCE...YOU DID A GREAT JOB...
Thanx guys for making it worth...
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