..came ... and went ... and nothing happened...!
Where were the celebrations?? We didn't even have the day off in college..! Maybe its not that shocking .. but I had forgotten that we don't get a holiday for Teachers' Day and was really getting excited about finally getting a holiday! :P
In school, we used to start practicing for the program several days in advance. It would be the class 9 students who organised a major part of the event - taking charge of the entire senior section – apart from class 10s who had their own special contribution. During our time in class 9, we chose the theme "Julius Caesar", which after all the twists and turns, became "Shakespeare in India" - a play that had all the characters of Julius Caesar, plus Kalidas, Shakuntala and Jankinath a.k.a. Jackey a.k.a. Trinaa !! The twist involved Brutus and Caesar falling in love with Shakuntala who was in love with Jackey, Calpurnia eloping with Marc Antony (played by yours truly), and Caesar waking from the dead and delivering killer Devdas dialogs. Some other 'killer' parts were: "Yes! My best friend, Julius Caesar!!" - Brutus' line inspired by the famous 'Friendly Wash Detergent' ad. (Do you remember it?)... and Calpurnia singing "Radha kaise na jale" on getting whiff of Caesar's love for Shakuntala.
Now that I think about it, it was almost a Bollywood masala flick with generous doses of heroes, heroines, love, jealousy, villains, wars, songs, 'inspirations' and awesomistic dialogs.
The spirit during that phase is truly memorable... - theme discussions. ideas. twists. actors. songs. dances. costumes. announcements. money. gifts. shorter classes. zero periods. the shed (the ultimate practise place). hushing up if we saw a teacher. whispering ideas when a teacher was around. fooling around. coming to school on off days for practice. dress rehearsals. staying back for decorating the hall. staff room. practice. practice. and more practice. things still messed up on the final day.... sigh .. how I missed all of this and much more...
oh wonderful school days ... I miss you ..!!
19 comments:
hey heer...u made me feel soo nostalgic today..remembering those gud 'ol tyms v had in school.. :)
and no one cn eva 4get the teachers day we planned out..the play ws soo mch fun...remebr akansha's "beware the ides of march"..hehe!! seems like it all happend yesterday...thanx fr takin us dwn memory lane....miss all u guys..n school..*sigh*
aawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...i wanna go back!! teacher's day used to be SO much fun then..n humara julius caesar was to ekdum rapchik...those stolen dialouges n songs (we even had thriller by micheal jackson!! haha)
...brilliant acting by sneha, amrita n ankita!! shittt..i miss all those ppl! n remember d 'FANS'?! u had so many...muhahaha...
thanks for posting this moti...needed some cheering up rt now :)
enjoyed reading this.Shakespeare in India sounds like a lot of fun....
'Radha kaise na jale..' he,he,he!
@ mayuri: oh yaa!!! "beware the ides of march!" hahahaha .. it was so much fun yaar ... WHY dint we record it??
@ tinni: it was ... i wanted to write so much more abt it .. had youtubed the video of the laugh also .. but i dint know how to fit in so much :P
and who can forget the fans ?? and i DINT have many..! hunh ! stop embarrassing me !
@ jayu di: it was !!
NOTHING WAS MESSED UP..it was the most awesome teacher's day of my life
i kno....the dumbest thing we did...NOT record it!!damn!
@ think tank: yes. it most definitely was the most awesome Teachers' day ever. everything went according to plan. but there was a flaw in the plan. have u forgotten the bottle breaking part after the Devdas speech? People got really panicky after that :P .. it was great tho. the "whooooooo!!"s were overwhelming :)
@ mayuri: seriously ! damn!
wow !! the teachr's day....
nuin on earth can evr beat tht one...
nt evn r weddin days...hehehe...
it ws so innovative tinni...dnt say copied :p
nd ofcourse v vr reli dumb nt to record it...!!
bt evry bit of it ws too gud...
the weapon...songs...dances...the entire muvi :))
script writers,,,hats off to yu !!
nd heer,the fans vr 4 ankita nd amrita...hehe..
urz ws only 1 item piece !! :P
hehehe..right u r kops!! :)))
@ mayuri: just remembered, her name wasnt akansha. she was vidya...and her middle name was akansha... i cant believe we're forgetting ... i need chullu bhar pani. :(
@ kopal: you're right. everything was perfect. except ... do u remember Riti hurting herself with her conspirator's knife?
@ tinni: you and kopal need to shut up about the fans in public. its embarrassing for gods sake!!
hehe ya.......sorry :(
i wud love to c this play!!! sounds vy interestin!!!
wonderful school days!!! yes.
those 4 years in college which were fantabulous.
and now work. my life follows a sine curve.
i miss those days. super nostalgia.
cha! sad that shakespeare wasn't alive to see your version! ;)
i miss school days too!! :(
wow!! shakespeare in india!!
all of them brutus, cassius,antony,ceaser(she broke the bottle in that devdas scene)..oho..so much fun so much innovation!
i still think that we should have taken a video of the whole play but anyway it is all there in our minds and hearts!
we had a celebation here in college that was abt student teacher relationship n all but nothin can get better than wat we had done even for watever imperfections it had(though i cant think of any!)..gr8 fun, the function was constantly reminding me of our school days...
Thanks heer..
@ mayz: if only we had recorded it .... sigh .. and im sure it still 'sounds' less interesting than it actually was. NOTHING can compare to it ! :D :D
@ lala: "super nostalgia" :')
@ swati: lol. i'm not sure he would have been able to take it ;)
@ ayushi: yep! always always there in our hearts.... :))
hey I can totally identify wid this...its been 3 yrs I passed out skool but then I still fynd myself so excited on these occasions but alas! dun see same excitement around myself !
nice post !
happy blogging !
i like SO agree with u. it was weird to see the teachers leave the (very meager and shoddily put together, i admit, but in my college we're always competing with deadlines) function halfway through to take classes. CLASSES, i ask you! on teacher's day.
sigh. i wanna go back to school. growing up doesn't suit me at all!
and btw, the play sounds really funny :)
@ peter: yup. and people act so astonished if you show enthusiasm ! - weird!
@pseudo intellectual: first of all, i LOVE your name ;)
..they actually do that??!! :O ..and its sad but funny that people actually attend classes instead of participating in the function, or just taking a day off and staying home, dont you think?
yep, growing old doesnt suit me either. and the PLAY .. was..is..will remain..the best! [for us anyway ;)]
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