Reunion of BVBPS BHEL Class of 1983 -July 28-29 2012

Everyone you will see in the pics below studied (and had lots of fun) together from class 5 to class 10 separating in the year 1983. The year we all wrote our 10 exam to meet up in the year 2012 for a memorable reunion.

I reached the resort early and played out the waiting game. Then I see Babu and call out but he does not recognise me. I call out again and there it lights up the small bulb and Babu recognizes me. Around there is this exotic creature, no missing Sanjay Rajan.

Vijay Ratnam decides to strangulate Aruna for following 
Sanjay during the teenmaar dance. Backs of Madhavi and Rupa

Madhavi and far its Babu

OMG :Pai lagu... boss... Me: pehle paisa de re ... Ramkrishna there too

What I saw at the gate was unbelievable- a party of teenmar drum players. Plus garlands for the guests.

Round Table... no Table though...

Soon the first lot of guests came – Just couldn’t recognize Deepak. Wondering who this good looking guest was.

Batch of BVBPS 1983

who is the bach of the group ... i know i know....

Suresh, Vijayanand, Vijay, Sesh, Ajai, Tom, Padmavati, Aparna with her beautiful daughter, Parvati, Ira,  

Whats Afroze up to.....Maroon-Aruna, White-Padmavati, Pink dress-Divya (Mayank's wife), offwhite-Veena, Pink saree-Rupa, Purple-Ira

Jaideep with Afroze and Ramkrishna - 
so this is how we looked to the teachers...

 

Just love this pic...Aruna and Mayank

AV Sridhar, Jaideep, Giridhar, Ali, Ramakrishna, pain-killer Mohan, Madhavi and Mayank.

But where are the rest !!!!!!

Soon  I see Ramesh, Afroze, Aruna, Paddu, Rupa, Mary and Janaki, Veena

Main Jeetha..

Laughing at my expense i guess

After all the years my heat still skips a beat – must be arrhythmia.

(Venu, Ranga Rao, Arvind, Laxmikant meet later)

Then begins the road dancing and it went on and on and on. We ended up spending more than an hr at the gate itself.

Then we check into our rooms – Sesh is my roommate. Wonder who all were room mates here and how it went on the gossip front.

In 9 out of 10 pic Veena has a plate in hand....
here with Mary giving her some juicy news and she focusing on her plate

Aruna cheering .. Ira's game... with Afroze, Parvati and Padmavati

Afroze was here na... where did she go...

Then we all meet at the indoor hall, where the big Reschool backdrop is put up. 
Beautiful it is. One photo session here with individuals pointing at their names. I pointed at the wrong name.

Met PS Ravindra and family but Whers Xavier.

All ears for the handsome guy

We begin the proceeding by giving girls mementos. Small but nice idea prompted by Mayank. 

Next was the cute mugs distribution with our names on it. This one is precious piece I shall keep for long. Then we had pics taken in our new Tees with the hand (master stroke). Mine made me breathless – too tight. I later gave it Mohan’s son.

Wats dad upto behind my back.... 

Then we went on to the quiz created by Afroze.  Must say lot of effort went into making this quiz. Those cool questions about us – from postings online. Questions about our teachers. Rumi questions. Loved every bit of the event.

11 pm 12 midnight 1am......

During this game my dear friend Xavier makes his entry.

Then we played a round of Antraskshari. Great fun as always. Highlight here was Vijayratnam’s redo of Amitabh on a bike singing that song from Mukadar ka sikandar.

Had a chatty chaty with Murlikrishna.

Then some guys – not named for obvious reasons– went to the room to have a swig. I joined them but didn’t take in any alcohol as I was already high – what with all the happening around.

Daru time...

Boys Boys...

Later that evening we had a DJ – Bobby and team join us. They made us sweat from 9-11. Never danced so much. Not even in our school days. The kids just loved it.

Then it was story time. I had fun telling the stories. Hope u liked it. Feedback welcome.

Girls Girls...

We ended the day at 130am – way past midnight.

I missed the Holi next moring. The reason was when I got up i hit my toe on the side table, it pained so much that I quietly got back in bed and dozed off.

LtoR- Padmavati, Ira, Afroze, Parvati, Aparna. Row 2- Padmalatha

Later I had a nice memorable walk with the girls. Remember that a lot.

Aparna, Ira and Deepak

Day 2 was family day. Not my kinda day as I end up hearing how nice the spouses are or how smart the kids are. But enjoyed this one.

Saw Divya, Madhu, earlier saw Sunita, had a nice chat with Ravindra ’s wife, also met Ira’s hubby.

3 is a crowd - Hemant, Aruna and Sanjay Rajan (same below)

During the kids games, we – the classmates – were all called in for a game. This game a modification of musical chair and was conducted by Ira. The game was where the girls stand in a line with one had on their side (alternately)  and be the chair and boys keep moving around - as soon as the music stops, boys lock hands with the nearest girl. Some unlucky guy got out every round. The real highlight of this game was when girls were asked to leave to reduce the ‘chairs’, they strongly objected. One even said why should I leave I have a boy at hand. The winner here was M. R. Suresh.  Silver went to Ali. And bronze to yours sincerely. 

Parvati, Afroze and Paddu got their parents to the show. Unexpected. Was nice to know they are happy and healthy and doing good.

Grand Finale...

Paddu even brought her Grandmom here. So sweet.

Post lunch second day was when I saw Xavier’s wife and kids. I had a lil chatty chatty with her.

What I remember was a Jagjit singh song sang by Rupa. This song did touch a cord within. It made most eyes moist. 

Rupa at her best

Then Ramesh spoke to the crowd to give back by collecting money and buying a big farm house for me. Or was it something else.

Holi Hai..............

The happy one are PS Ravindra and Veena Kulkarni

The formal ending was when we sang the national anthem – but I now realize some may have become citizens of other countries. Are they allowed to sing the Indian national anthem? 

Long Long ago.............Janaki, Ramessh, Ranga and Hemant

Was very difficult parting – Told Ajai and Ali no leaving me till the last second.  Sesh went home to drop the families and returned. Tom, Mohan, Ali, Sesh and me  went to Madhavi’s place. Got to know her hubby, Venu a little better.  

Sanjay Rajan was with me on the flight back to Bangalore. Guy doing some good things. Later dropped him at the hotel and had a little challenge arranging veg food for Sanjay this late at night but ended up have some delicious hot Idly and dosa.

The Euphoria is  still to die down. Ask me what was the highlight of the event and I’ll say it started at the gate of the resort and ended when the last person left.

Most importantly, we need to thank Facebook for allowing us to get to know each other even before we actually met. I got to know Parvati, Mary, Madhavi, Afroze and Janki on Facebook itself.

The only downside of this trip were the few who didn’t make it here. To name one, I missed Srinath. We had some great moments in school - with him being my perennial source of Poppins and my wrestling partner. Later in life, we met often and I found him a great guy and a good friend.

Nuf said… until next time.