the shadi series #5: mehndi
and it finally came! the mehndi was held yesterday night, and overall.. it was GOOD!!
The day started (for me) at around 6 after i left work. As soon as i was out of the building, i was called up by my mamu asking if the transport that we had arranged for them could be made available by 8 at their place instead of the 8:30 originally decided. I made a few calls... and set it up. Then went over to my nani's where i was immediately put to task to bring my other momani from the parlour (typical shadi work.. being the transporter lol). Then went off to get the transport, and came back prompty at 7:59 with it. But dissapointment awaited me, as people were not ready :@ grr! made me really mad!! anyway, after spending the next hour trying to get everyone ready and out of the house.. we finally made it out and to the hall by 9:15.
And now for another shock... the music guys didnt have a CD player!! and all the dance routines we had prepared were on CDs. Me and two cousins of mine rushed back home to get our own CD player and came back in about half hour with it. Finally got the music running. yaayy!
Then came the rasms... which went on for about an hour or so... with both the bridge and groom having seperate ceremonies. That ended with a variation of the 'dhulay kay jootay chupao' tradition.. our variation being holding the hand of the groom, and demanded money before we released it. Our demands started off at 50k. Their side of the negotiation started from just 5, thats right... Rs 5!!! So the shouting, cajoling and negotiations started and the final figure we came down to was 5k. This we had to take, since we were running out of time. Then came the most anticipated part of the night... the dances!
The grooms side started of with a dandya number with 5 girls. It was good... then we came in with a number to the song "jai jai shiv shankar" which had 6 boys and 6 girls in it. They responded with this really llllooooonnnggggg medley (almost was about 20 minutes) by the end of which we were shouting 'buss karo! jaan choro'. Our next number was a small medley by 6 girl cousins, carried off quite well after 6 days of continous practice... their next number was by a couple... we responded by yet another medley, this time by 4 girls and 4 boys. At this time, dinner was served and it became sort of an during dinner entertainment. There were about 6 more numbers after this, before us cousins finally breaked off for having dinner too.
Note: im sorry this sounds so vague, but i just cannot rem the names of the songs :S. i rem shiv shanker, cuz i was also dancing in it. lol!
Back to the description, dinner was kind of okay. The best part being the chicken korma and fresh nan. Other things on the menu were behari boti, kachoris and pullao. After dinner though... we still werent done with the dances and it continued on till around 2 AM! It was very good and very entertaining with some dances really well thought out. Left the hall around 2:30 AM.
There was this one point which kept coming up, as the difference between both groups. Our side had practiced on coordinated dances while the other side were more focused on dramatizations. We had one rule, that all dances were to be kept decent with not even any small vulgar movements allowed. Their side, however, had no such rule, and their dances included couple dances, huggings and so forth. I think they stopped just short of kissing on stage. A bit too influenced by bollywood i would say. That was the only sour point in the whole affair, atleast from our side.
The day started (for me) at around 6 after i left work. As soon as i was out of the building, i was called up by my mamu asking if the transport that we had arranged for them could be made available by 8 at their place instead of the 8:30 originally decided. I made a few calls... and set it up. Then went over to my nani's where i was immediately put to task to bring my other momani from the parlour (typical shadi work.. being the transporter lol). Then went off to get the transport, and came back prompty at 7:59 with it. But dissapointment awaited me, as people were not ready :@ grr! made me really mad!! anyway, after spending the next hour trying to get everyone ready and out of the house.. we finally made it out and to the hall by 9:15.
And now for another shock... the music guys didnt have a CD player!! and all the dance routines we had prepared were on CDs. Me and two cousins of mine rushed back home to get our own CD player and came back in about half hour with it. Finally got the music running. yaayy!
Then came the rasms... which went on for about an hour or so... with both the bridge and groom having seperate ceremonies. That ended with a variation of the 'dhulay kay jootay chupao' tradition.. our variation being holding the hand of the groom, and demanded money before we released it. Our demands started off at 50k. Their side of the negotiation started from just 5, thats right... Rs 5!!! So the shouting, cajoling and negotiations started and the final figure we came down to was 5k. This we had to take, since we were running out of time. Then came the most anticipated part of the night... the dances!
The grooms side started of with a dandya number with 5 girls. It was good... then we came in with a number to the song "jai jai shiv shankar" which had 6 boys and 6 girls in it. They responded with this really llllooooonnnggggg medley (almost was about 20 minutes) by the end of which we were shouting 'buss karo! jaan choro'. Our next number was a small medley by 6 girl cousins, carried off quite well after 6 days of continous practice... their next number was by a couple... we responded by yet another medley, this time by 4 girls and 4 boys. At this time, dinner was served and it became sort of an during dinner entertainment. There were about 6 more numbers after this, before us cousins finally breaked off for having dinner too.
Note: im sorry this sounds so vague, but i just cannot rem the names of the songs :S. i rem shiv shanker, cuz i was also dancing in it. lol!
Back to the description, dinner was kind of okay. The best part being the chicken korma and fresh nan. Other things on the menu were behari boti, kachoris and pullao. After dinner though... we still werent done with the dances and it continued on till around 2 AM! It was very good and very entertaining with some dances really well thought out. Left the hall around 2:30 AM.
There was this one point which kept coming up, as the difference between both groups. Our side had practiced on coordinated dances while the other side were more focused on dramatizations. We had one rule, that all dances were to be kept decent with not even any small vulgar movements allowed. Their side, however, had no such rule, and their dances included couple dances, huggings and so forth. I think they stopped just short of kissing on stage. A bit too influenced by bollywood i would say. That was the only sour point in the whole affair, atleast from our side.
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