Impressions----Part Two

Now the fun part started. We were divided into groups of six. I had with me Pory of my section, Hari and Neha of B section and Vivek and Priyanka of IB. The fun part also consisted of two parts. First part was "Pehchaan Kaun", where we were given six roll numbers of the seniors (two each from sections A and B and two from IB). We had to find out who they were and then prepare power point presentations on them. Trust me this was very easy. The seniors were very co-operative in divulging information about their batch mates, some so private that we couldn't put those on the slides.Now the second part, and it was really tough. Each group was given either of four events---- musical skit, dance , fashion show and sell hell. We got dance. Before getting into the details of how pathetic our performance was, let me introduce my team mates.

Meet Pory, the sweet and chubby girl from Delhi. She speaks very little in the class and the first words she uttered were "Oh no ! Dance?" Meet Hari, the shy and reserved guy from Chennai. He didn't even have one Hindi track on his laptop, so you can well imagine what dancing to Hindi tracks would mean. Meet Neha, the most sporting of the six of us. I thought, "thank God, we have a choreographer amongst us". Meet Priyanka, the always-so-serious girl from Delhi. And lastly Vivek. "Unless you searched for us, I would had never gone on and try to find out my group mates", that was Vivek for you and me. And to complete the icing on the cake there was me, who hadn't ever danced in public. So I guess the ambiance is created perfectly for you to guess the pain our seniors had to undergo watching us on stage.

Our rehearsals were fun. Never, except on the eve of the occasion, did all six of us practise together. Oh I forgot to tell you, the tracks were selected by seniors. Each group was given an item number, a mujrah and a typical Bollywood number. We had Kajra Re, Dil Cheez and Rain is Falling. To my surprise Hari picked up the steps ever so smoothly. Lesson learnt ---- never judge by external factors. Neha really turned out to be the commander-in-charge. With two sessions of heavy practise, the second being on the morning of the Impressions, we were more or less ready to get boo-ed.

The show was really awesome. Thankfully we were not the first dancing group . Preity people were the unlucky ones. Meet Preity, the tom boy of our class . She plays basketball and even rides bikes. Her team mate was Rasna, as her friends call her. I owe her a lot for encouraging me to pick up blogging again. Their performance was greeted with loud cheers, which gave us some confidence to go up and perform. We went on the stage and did what Vivek termed as "shaadi dance" for three minutes. But thanks to our rehearsal, it wasn't as bad as it had threatened to be. We were welcomed back down with hand shakes, not sure if they were for winding up our performance soon. Among the other dancers Manthan, Ayushi, Gargi and the deadly combo of Wilma-Varun were superb.

Manthan one of the four musketeers of B section, the others being Handa, Kaushik and Dron. All four of them along with Ayushi and Rasna form the core group of B section. Whenever we speak about masti in B section, this is the group which comes to mind first. Ayushi, the vibrant energy pack of B section was teamed up with the battery of our A section Gargi. Their performance was bound to be electric. Wilma is a live wire of section A. The most bubbly girl was teamed up with Varun, the serious IT chap of the same section. But the duo rocked on the salsa beats. Oh yes, it'll be injustice if I don't mention my roomie Sid's performance on the dance floor. After all it won him an entire song dedicated to him---- Pappu can't dance sala.
Gauraav was given "size zero condom" in sell hell. The poor soul who couldn't say clearly what his sell hell topic was a week ago, was awesome on stage. No doubt his group won the sell hell and no surprises regarding the winner of dance competition as well. It was Preity-Rasna group.

The fashion show was an eye candy for many a reason. Ritica-Upada people won it. Both of them are the little kids of our section, yet to be graduated officially.

The musical skit was won by Dron-Shaleen-Ankita-Khushboo people. Meet Ankita, the Miss Breganza of the skit. This Rajasthan girl was my friend from even before I joined SIMSR. Khushboo is the girl from IB. But the star of the skit was Dron undoubtedly. Their topic was also unique "Dil,Daru aur Nari....Sabpe Parey Bhari". Dron was the poor soul who first lost his heart to this Miss Breganza, got beaten up by fellow oglers, and eventually lost Breganza too.

The winners got T shirts and the losers.......well nothing.All in all, a fun filled occasion, ushering in the promise of an even bigger Freshers' Welcome sometime soon.