Recently one of my friends, Sheetal, got married at hometown called Chikodi. Though the name is difficult to be found on the map but no kidding, it does exist! A few of us from college could make it to the wedding which was two complete days of fulltoo fun that infected us with recurring fits of laughter and aching stomachs. It was more of a reunion than being a wedding gathering.
As Chandrika and I reached Chikodi after about 12 hrs of journey from Bangalore, we were elated to find Annett and Minoy already there from Delhi and Mumbai respectively. Comedy personified Annett and sarcasm king Minoy were in the best of their wits and you anyways know what this severe combination results in... uninterrupted supply of illogical jokes! It got us busy immediately so much so that we forgot to even meet and greet the groom-to-be.
And in a while, once Joseph and Praveen had arrived, the entire place was bubbling with giggles as we got high on humour and ecstacy. Joseph's unstoppable rising weight, Chandrika's addiction to her cell phone and my recently changed relationship status attracted the maximum attention.
The functions started and we enjoyed a round of folk dance with the family members. It was fun to see both men and women of varied age, sizes and shapes enthusiastically participating. The high spirited dance with a jovial song ensured that everyone gets tempted to join and before we realised, we were all a part of it. The icing on the cake was to see even Sheetal dance his tapori style.
Once everyone settled, we set ourselves to clicking pictures. There was a battery of flashes from cameras of all possible kinds. Coloured, sepia, B&W, negative and what not were the picture formats that potential pro photographers were experimenting with! Who cared about the ceremonies happening on the stage? We were busier with ourselves pitying Sheetal missing all the fun as he sat with a pasted smile up on the stage.
And then, post dinner while we thought we were exhausted, little did we realise that the most-energy-consuming-action was yet to happen... It was the time for holi... Oops haldi! Actually more like holi, it was a ceremony where we were being chased to be colored with haldi by all known and unknown invitees of both the sides. After the initial hesitation, we went crazy with the game and chased everyone turn by turn making sure that they are smeared enough that taking bath at 2 in the night becomes inevitable ;D
The next day was the wedding by when Eric and Niteen had also reached which augmented the fun element! While Sheetal was saying his wedding vows, we were busy with the spread of lip-smacking dishes. The unstoppable array of jokes from everyone around attracted funny curses, loathing and moaning from our own gang of buds.
As the ceremony came to an end with priest announcing Sheetal and Priyanka as "man and wife" (Sheetal being the man! ;D) we wished them, exchanged hugs and farewells and set ourselves back to respective places taking with us merriment of the event which got us nostalgic and brought alive that golden period of college when the world around was so uncomplicated and the only thing to worry about were the final exams!
As Chandrika and I reached Chikodi after about 12 hrs of journey from Bangalore, we were elated to find Annett and Minoy already there from Delhi and Mumbai respectively. Comedy personified Annett and sarcasm king Minoy were in the best of their wits and you anyways know what this severe combination results in... uninterrupted supply of illogical jokes! It got us busy immediately so much so that we forgot to even meet and greet the groom-to-be.And in a while, once Joseph and Praveen had arrived, the entire place was bubbling with giggles as we got high on humour and ecstacy. Joseph's unstoppable rising weight, Chandrika's addiction to her cell phone and my recently changed relationship status attracted the maximum attention.
The functions started and we enjoyed a round of folk dance with the family members. It was fun to see both men and women of varied age, sizes and shapes enthusiastically participating. The high spirited dance with a jovial song ensured that everyone gets tempted to join and before we realised, we were all a part of it. The icing on the cake was to see even Sheetal dance his tapori style.
And then, post dinner while we thought we were exhausted, little did we realise that the most-energy-consuming-action was yet to happen... It was the time for holi... Oops haldi! Actually more like holi, it was a ceremony where we were being chased to be colored with haldi by all known and unknown invitees of both the sides. After the initial hesitation, we went crazy with the game and chased everyone turn by turn making sure that they are smeared enough that taking bath at 2 in the night becomes inevitable ;D
As the ceremony came to an end with priest announcing Sheetal and Priyanka as "man and wife" (Sheetal being the man! ;D) we wished them, exchanged hugs and farewells and set ourselves back to respective places taking with us merriment of the event which got us nostalgic and brought alive that golden period of college when the world around was so uncomplicated and the only thing to worry about were the final exams!
oh this was an amazing trip
ReplyDeletelaughed our hearts out
introduced new PJ's
and how can we forget "she s the joking"
and Deepti u din mention hw te toddlersmade u run fr ur lyf so mch so u were shit scared of any1 passing by :) :)
Errr... we would leave that bit aside Joe! Thank u very much!
ReplyDeleteThis is a cool one Deepu..!!! And a reunion it indeed was. U have cheered me up after a depressing day in the office...!!! Bravo
ReplyDeleteWhat I found interesting was that we all just clicked as soon as we met, as if we were meeting after a few days only and not two years as was the case with some of us... Cheers to the fundoo 2 years in CCIM..!!!
too good Deepti...beautifully written
ReplyDeleteThank u Minoy and Bhaskar!
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