Where’s everybody yaaaaar ?
Its already 6:30….Hussshhh
(Nitin n Manish enters the scene jostling n humming…mohe mohe tu rang de basanti…mohe mohe tu rand de ….)
(In tashion)
Hiiiiieeeeeeeee Rashmiiiiiii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kya hai ye ???Abi time kitna hua maaalum hai ???? arrre 7 baj gaye yaaar….aur abhi tak Anjum nai aaayi….Swati kaa pata nai….Mithun to fasP me busy hai….aur Chander kauli pata nai wao dance bi kar raa hai ki nai !!!!! L(((((
(Huggiing Aarty and sobbing)
Aaarty…Aarty…whether d Dance will go onstage or not ???!!!! Deko naa abi 2 min ki bhi choreography nai hui yaar….
Ho jayegi rasmi….rasmi ho jayegi…… !!!! Inko thodi kuch lagta hai….Chup raho tumlog bus…kabhi to time pe aaaya karo….
Punctually at 6:30 almost I mean at least some of the MDM (better pronounced as Master Dance Management) would head towards the basement and make a long entry in the register…uumhuun…Not for a business release or to meet their own cutie Michael….But but….Well do I need to answer why ???? Well this would be the daily chore of most of us who were rlly rlly enthued to tap their feet in the i2bash…
Well it has been almost half a year but the bash bubbles are still bubbling in many hearts…It all started wid couple of mails n enthu put up …n then it took no time as the dance amnesia started communicating ever1s mind…Well now selecting a song was an imp take…lotsa s
ongs were ogling us for moving our hands and feet on them…Someone suggested kajrare n sumone dusbahane n yet another one was bunty aur bubbly but the whole piece of cake was snatched by Sunita when she suggested: “If u waana do sumthing….why don’t u try jingalaalaa type…it will look rlly v good” (am still amazed how she could suggest Jingaalaala….hmmm)…Finally the big ice was broken at one of the party in Aarty’s house where everybody…Lost the control…geared up…rocked n rolled… on Thodi si dhool meri….!!! The song which makes adrenalin rise n makes the the body go tango…just Naturally !!!
As the i2bash stalked more near n near most of us daily activities lied under the bed peeping jealously at us: Fresh aroma of tea, the smell of unwashed blanket, poha in d morning breakfast, the office workstation and the evening cabs were all solitary as we had fall in love with dhool of our dharti and watan…things had totally changed then…
Peeeeepl……… Ppl Posostions….
(Nitin was confused with his positions many times)
Nitin…Nitin…is that ur position……???
Haaan mai to yahin……I mean yahan nai hoon…. !!!! Hold on I will go to my position….
(I guess Nitin was dreaming of some other position :P)
Ok guys…Kim,nitin,gaurav,manno,mithun)…Go to ur positions again…n do Sapne Rang de….(Chanderkauli was absent again…)
(Rashmi singing in her own South Indian style now…)
Spane rang de….aaahaaah !!!
Apne Rang de….aaahaaah !!!
Mithun what r u doin ?????
Mona, tell him how to do the guys part ( Mona was a pro in imitating all the guys steps !!)
Ok start 1,2,3…
Spane rang de….aaahaaah !!!
Apne Rang de….aaahaaah !!!
(with an appealing facial expression)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnn....koool..... that is how to do it…..
In midst of the practice session or at the end evry1 used to collapse keeping our hands on our knees… or stretching our hands as though inviting our grand children for a hug… or as if just won the battle of “WaterLoo”( pun intended)…But there was on lil jirl whose enthu still used to sustain….
(Swati with her her index finger waving in the air)
Kim ek baar kare Uriyen ki practice….LoL
I also remember in one of the step the girl had to cross underneath the guys open legs….(nitin, aarty, mithun,rashmi no jokes haan)….Mona could do it wid a grace…(Rasmi denied doin the step) But Swati would do cat walk n would cross the leg in a flash as if Jerry is on the other side sleeping peacefully tempting Tom to catch hold of it…(Hehehe)…Then there was Mona who would go on dancing…sometimes RDB another time Uriyen n sometimes choreographing the guys part…n whenever she saw some of us lying like flagpoles immediately her friendly, motherly grandmotherly n I don’t know what all …ly’s would come to life…
Its already 6:30….Hussshhh
(Nitin n Manish enters the scene jostling n humming…mohe mohe tu rang de basanti…mohe mohe tu rand de ….)
(In tashion)
Hiiiiieeeeeeeee Rashmiiiiiii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kya hai ye ???Abi time kitna hua maaalum hai ???? arrre 7 baj gaye yaaar….aur abhi tak Anjum nai aaayi….Swati kaa pata nai….Mithun to fasP me busy hai….aur Chander kauli pata nai wao dance bi kar raa hai ki nai !!!!! L(((((
(Huggiing Aarty and sobbing)
Aaarty…Aarty…whether d Dance will go onstage or not ???!!!! Deko naa abi 2 min ki bhi choreography nai hui yaar….
Ho jayegi rasmi….rasmi ho jayegi…… !!!! Inko thodi kuch lagta hai….Chup raho tumlog bus…kabhi to time pe aaaya karo….
Punctually at 6:30 almost I mean at least some of the MDM (better pronounced as Master Dance Management) would head towards the basement and make a long entry in the register…uumhuun…Not for a business release or to meet their own cutie Michael….But but….Well do I need to answer why ???? Well this would be the daily chore of most of us who were rlly rlly enthued to tap their feet in the i2bash…
Well it has been almost half a year but the bash bubbles are still bubbling in many hearts…It all started wid couple of mails n enthu put up …n then it took no time as the dance amnesia started communicating ever1s mind…Well now selecting a song was an imp take…lotsa s
ongs were ogling us for moving our hands and feet on them…Someone suggested kajrare n sumone dusbahane n yet another one was bunty aur bubbly but the whole piece of cake was snatched by Sunita when she suggested: “If u waana do sumthing….why don’t u try jingalaalaa type…it will look rlly v good” (am still amazed how she could suggest Jingaalaala….hmmm)…Finally the big ice was broken at one of the party in Aarty’s house where everybody…Lost the control…geared up…rocked n rolled… on Thodi si dhool meri….!!! The song which makes adrenalin rise n makes the the body go tango…just Naturally !!!As the i2bash stalked more near n near most of us daily activities lied under the bed peeping jealously at us: Fresh aroma of tea, the smell of unwashed blanket, poha in d morning breakfast, the office workstation and the evening cabs were all solitary as we had fall in love with dhool of our dharti and watan…things had totally changed then…
Peeeeepl……… Ppl Posostions….
(Nitin was confused with his positions many times)
Nitin…Nitin…is that ur position……???
Haaan mai to yahin……I mean yahan nai hoon…. !!!! Hold on I will go to my position….
(I guess Nitin was dreaming of some other position :P)
Ok guys…Kim,nitin,gaurav,manno,mithun)…Go to ur positions again…n do Sapne Rang de….(Chanderkauli was absent again…)
(Rashmi singing in her own South Indian style now…)
Spane rang de….aaahaaah !!!
Apne Rang de….aaahaaah !!!
Mithun what r u doin ?????
Mona, tell him how to do the guys part ( Mona was a pro in imitating all the guys steps !!)
Ok start 1,2,3…
Spane rang de….aaahaaah !!!
Apne Rang de….aaahaaah !!!
(with an appealing facial expression)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnn....koool..... that is how to do it…..
In midst of the practice session or at the end evry1 used to collapse keeping our hands on our knees… or stretching our hands as though inviting our grand children for a hug… or as if just won the battle of “WaterLoo”( pun intended)…But there was on lil jirl whose enthu still used to sustain….
(Swati with her her index finger waving in the air)
Kim ek baar kare Uriyen ki practice….LoL
I also remember in one of the step the girl had to cross underneath the guys open legs….(nitin, aarty, mithun,rashmi no jokes haan)….Mona could do it wid a grace…(Rasmi denied doin the step) But Swati would do cat walk n would cross the leg in a flash as if Jerry is on the other side sleeping peacefully tempting Tom to catch hold of it…(Hehehe)…Then there was Mona who would go on dancing…sometimes RDB another time Uriyen n sometimes choreographing the guys part…n whenever she saw some of us lying like flagpoles immediately her friendly, motherly grandmotherly n I don’t know what all …ly’s would come to life…
Paoo dard kar raa Manish…
Ek kaam karma….Ghar jaana…..1 bucket paaani lena…
usme khooooob saaara namk daalna…fir pair ko 10-15 paani me daaalna….
bus…saaara dard khatam….
Ab mona ko kaun bataye ki hamne 2 din me kitne namak ke packet khatam kar daale…aur 10 min kya… maano to 1-1 ghante tak 2-3 round maar leta tha….
Rasmi n Aaarty had another story wid them…They would bring some sort of health drink…n maanno n me would bring kela…thts diff story ki kela kisi aur ko mil jaata tha n I had to just watch eating my kelas starving…
Waise God did one good thing…He endowed us the art of forgetting…Otherwise we would have all been crazy….But is it always good to forget things ?????
Like many used to forget about the dance itself...Mithun would confuse his RDB walk wid fashP walk…aarty would forget her laptop…I often used to forget steps…Anjum would forget her practice timings bein busy in her work…..
Anjum chlana nai hai kya ???
OOOO shiiit !!!!!
Arrrrrrrrre yaaaaaaaaaaar….aaaj to Rashmi ne 6 baje bulaya tha…Shiiiiit !!!!
To kya hua chalo….
Arrrrrrre yaaaaar mat poocho….ye Panasonic waaale…huuuuuunh !!!!
Yahan tak to theek he…But imagine if someone forgets in spite of so many practices that such n such person is also dancing in his/her group…
(Nitin strangled wid one step ….trying hard to do it… but in vain.)
(One finger on his forehead n other on his lanky waist…gesturing deep seriousness)
(Suddenly he saw Rasmi that she did the same step gracefully…)
Violaaa !!!
Arre Rashmi tum bhiRDB kar rai ho kya ????
Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ????? (Aaarty,Manish,,Anjum,Mona,me n all others reacted instantly)
(Nitin was totally confused….)
(Nitin Obeying the Law of Entropy: In any heated process…Disorder increases)
Mujhe to bhiya laga kit tum bus aise hi practice karwa rahi ho…
Haan haan me to dance hi nai kar rai….
Paglon ki tarah tum logon pe chillati reti hoon naa....
Tum, aarty Manno...bus enjoy karte rete ho...jab dekho hastei rete ho....
Me yahan aaongi chillaoongi….phir chali jaaongi
(Aarty’s Consolation)
Arre nai rasmi…ye asie hi keh diya hoga mazak me…
Nai aarty agar ye mazak kar raha hota to muje koi problem nai tha...
Ye serious tha…isne kis tarah se kaha tumne dekha…..
(Nitin in between)
(Arre …me…..aaare….bahi….baat to sun…..aarty…..)
Rasmi : Aarty tumne bhi nai kaha naa nitin ko kuch…
Arre mai kya kahooongi yaar….Ye log to bus asie ho aate he....pata nai kya karte he aur chale jaate he….us din nitin be mujhe aise hi bola tha….
Everyday we come for practice but…….
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Finally Aarty at the end....
Everybody is shouting…..Everybody is howling…..am not goin to Dance like this….
Aaarty….aaarty….arrre bhai galti ho gyai mujse….Rasmi…aarre yaar….!!!!
Practice of RDB was like chocobaar wid ever1 relishing to d hilt…Aarty’s jokes , laughter , scolds and comments, Nitin’ s interpretation, Manno’s cute steps and Rashmi’s “aaaaaannnn” all added flavour to d much much enthu…then thr was Swatis’ “maine crawl ni ki”, Anjum’s dance wid’out her partner ,Mithun’s uniqe smile when his eyes used to peep between his eyelid n his cheeks providing full support underneath, Poonam’s attire wid loads of bangles n Gaurav’s patent step ( that he wud keep repeating)..All these provided much synergy and always made each moment verr ligh and animated…
Finally when d D’day arrived…Everybody clad in colorful flowery attire was just smiling…Some of were practicing the MIME for the first time…n d ladies were busy wid their never ending makeup…(am still confused…were the make ups looking rlly good :P)…The time slot between the dances were rlly little n all of us had to run hunting n claiming for our costumes at the last moment…Aarty denied for the MIME entry as the item girl just b’4 it had to go onstage…then there was fight for one ladies purse just 1 min b’4 the show which they denied to give ( aakhir aisa kya rehta hai usme ???)…n then…
The final moment had arrived…Everybody held their breath for a moment…mercury rising on the floor, decibles freaking high…all the audience screaming…(some of our frens were silent :P)…lights blinking at us... n the stage turf loaded wid all the girl’s invocation wid ek Omkaar…Satna…kartpoorakh….
Rasmi n Aaarty had another story wid them…They would bring some sort of health drink…n maanno n me would bring kela…thts diff story ki kela kisi aur ko mil jaata tha n I had to just watch eating my kelas starving…
Waise God did one good thing…He endowed us the art of forgetting…Otherwise we would have all been crazy….But is it always good to forget things ?????
Like many used to forget about the dance itself...Mithun would confuse his RDB walk wid fashP walk…aarty would forget her laptop…I often used to forget steps…Anjum would forget her practice timings bein busy in her work…..
Anjum chlana nai hai kya ???
OOOO shiiit !!!!!
Arrrrrrrrre yaaaaaaaaaaar….aaaj to Rashmi ne 6 baje bulaya tha…Shiiiiit !!!!
To kya hua chalo….
Arrrrrrre yaaaaar mat poocho….ye Panasonic waaale…huuuuuunh !!!!
Yahan tak to theek he…But imagine if someone forgets in spite of so many practices that such n such person is also dancing in his/her group…
(Nitin strangled wid one step ….trying hard to do it… but in vain.)
(One finger on his forehead n other on his lanky waist…gesturing deep seriousness)
(Suddenly he saw Rasmi that she did the same step gracefully…)
Violaaa !!!
Arre Rashmi tum bhiRDB kar rai ho kya ????
Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ????? (Aaarty,Manish,,Anjum,Mona,me n all others reacted instantly)
(Nitin was totally confused….)
(Nitin Obeying the Law of Entropy: In any heated process…Disorder increases)
Mujhe to bhiya laga kit tum bus aise hi practice karwa rahi ho…
Haan haan me to dance hi nai kar rai….
Paglon ki tarah tum logon pe chillati reti hoon naa....
Tum, aarty Manno...bus enjoy karte rete ho...jab dekho hastei rete ho....
Me yahan aaongi chillaoongi….phir chali jaaongi
(Aarty’s Consolation)
Arre nai rasmi…ye asie hi keh diya hoga mazak me…
Nai aarty agar ye mazak kar raha hota to muje koi problem nai tha...
Ye serious tha…isne kis tarah se kaha tumne dekha…..
(Nitin in between)
(Arre …me…..aaare….bahi….baat to sun…..aarty…..)
Rasmi : Aarty tumne bhi nai kaha naa nitin ko kuch…
Arre mai kya kahooongi yaar….Ye log to bus asie ho aate he....pata nai kya karte he aur chale jaate he….us din nitin be mujhe aise hi bola tha….
Everyday we come for practice but…….
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Finally Aarty at the end....
Everybody is shouting…..Everybody is howling…..am not goin to Dance like this….
Aaarty….aaarty….arrre bhai galti ho gyai mujse….Rasmi…aarre yaar….!!!!
Practice of RDB was like chocobaar wid ever1 relishing to d hilt…Aarty’s jokes , laughter , scolds and comments, Nitin’ s interpretation, Manno’s cute steps and Rashmi’s “aaaaaannnn” all added flavour to d much much enthu…then thr was Swatis’ “maine crawl ni ki”, Anjum’s dance wid’out her partner ,Mithun’s uniqe smile when his eyes used to peep between his eyelid n his cheeks providing full support underneath, Poonam’s attire wid loads of bangles n Gaurav’s patent step ( that he wud keep repeating)..All these provided much synergy and always made each moment verr ligh and animated…
Finally when d D’day arrived…Everybody clad in colorful flowery attire was just smiling…Some of were practicing the MIME for the first time…n d ladies were busy wid their never ending makeup…(am still confused…were the make ups looking rlly good :P)…The time slot between the dances were rlly little n all of us had to run hunting n claiming for our costumes at the last moment…Aarty denied for the MIME entry as the item girl just b’4 it had to go onstage…then there was fight for one ladies purse just 1 min b’4 the show which they denied to give ( aakhir aisa kya rehta hai usme ???)…n then…
The final moment had arrived…Everybody held their breath for a moment…mercury rising on the floor, decibles freaking high…all the audience screaming…(some of our frens were silent :P)…lights blinking at us... n the stage turf loaded wid all the girl’s invocation wid ek Omkaar…Satna…kartpoorakh….
n then…
Tingadiding…tingading ding…….
Tingadiding…tingading ding…….
Nitin enters the stage alone….
Every1 in utter confusion….
Arre isi line pe entry karni thi kya…( all the guys looking at each other’s confused face)
all the girls immediately came down from their spiritual Omkaar… Satna n started moving……
I felt the push from behind n made an entery n then all the guys were on stage 2 beats b’4 the actual entry time……
Some of us repeated the same step twice….Chaderkauli was totally lost n confused n just looked others….
n finally the song was over n everybody just rocked the stage n made RDB hit the whole ambience wid lotsa applause n humour…Everybody just embraced each other congratulating….i was searching someone for a nice hug…chhhh…again in vain….
finally I had to satisfy myself again wid Nitin n Manno…But one question still remain unanswered…
Tingadiding…tingading ding…….
Tingadiding…tingading ding…….
Nitin enters the stage alone….
Every1 in utter confusion….
Arre isi line pe entry karni thi kya…( all the guys looking at each other’s confused face)
all the girls immediately came down from their spiritual Omkaar… Satna n started moving……
I felt the push from behind n made an entery n then all the guys were on stage 2 beats b’4 the actual entry time……
Some of us repeated the same step twice….Chaderkauli was totally lost n confused n just looked others….
n finally the song was over n everybody just rocked the stage n made RDB hit the whole ambience wid lotsa applause n humour…Everybody just embraced each other congratulating….i was searching someone for a nice hug…chhhh…again in vain….
finally I had to satisfy myself again wid Nitin n Manno…But one question still remain unanswered…
How could Nitin forget the entry step???
The Team:
Rashmi --Gaurav
Aarty –Manish
Poonam—Nitin
Anjum—ChnaderKauli
Mona—Mithun
Swati--Kim
The Team:
Rashmi --Gaurav
Aarty –Manish
Poonam—Nitin
Anjum—ChnaderKauli
Mona—Mithun
Swati--Kim
8 comments:
I must say that reading thru this blog made me completely nostalgic.
How I wish I could go back and relive those days again.JUST WISH......
So sweet of you Kim,to pen down (type down) each and every single detail so well......
AMAZING.....
Aarti
Just saying good bye to everone here on last day and I think its the best thing I can read at this moment about old days.
Abhi mujhe lag raha hain, there was smone in audience for whom you and Nitin were so eager to come on stage that you did not wait for beats !!!
awesome kim .. too good..tell me how did u remember each discussion we had ..anyway reallly sweet of u. those days was too good and i wish it wud be the same like that forever...but ........
Mithun
Kimmie, this is the best tribute you could have given to the RDB group,to the i2 bash...
Things that all of us would have felt invariably, you have brought them to life, in their entirety... It has made me re-live each moment of it!
Memories that have been cherished by me and each one of us have been captured in your "words", aptly, beautifully...
Hats off...
Anjum!!!
@Every1-->Well Thanks a lot...By the way I must admit that it was MANNO again who recollected all such beautiful memories...
@Manish--> for me there was no one among the audience...i doono 'bot Nitin...but for u ????
Much Much.. (too much in Kimmy's style:)) I must say, this guy got a very good hand when it comes to writing(well.. i knw he is gud at few other things too ;))..
Especially his unique and vivid description will compel you to go nostalgic !!
Am really amazed Kim.. how u remember all those conversations so
perfectly..
Though I have been rubbed throughout the blog ;) but your artistic narration skill never let me feel down :)
Great Job Kim!!
Aaj bhi isse padhta hun to jaise saari yaadein taaza ho jaati hain !!
Cheers to all those old memories.. Nitin.
God, I read this AGAIN today n just cldn't stop reminiscing n smiling...
I miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss bgloreee and all the fun!!! sob sob...
Really hope to see you guys soon...
Anjum
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