Not Enough Fun?

Razia Khan

Shekhawat returned today, looking hale and hearty. The chest pain that struck him yesterday (see post) has apparently ebbed. He said it was gone even before he returned home and he has since forgotten about it. Still, all his friends and well-wishers advised him not to overdo himself, be it at exercising, drinking or masti-mazaak.

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“Everything you do now has to be within limits,” was Ram Shankar Shukla’s sage advice.
But where does any advice work on Shekhawat? He continued ribbing Shukla on his gurukuls (see post of September 30) and “Shanti” (the name has now changed from Shilpi Devi) and when it came to saying “Very Good” between the laughter and free-hand rounds, he insisted we say “Qabool Hai” in chorus for a change. (It seems his son is writing a tele-serial by that name). It took Yusuf Rassiwala and the Muslim ladies to restrain him and we settled for “Good Morning” instead.
Razia Khan stepped in the middle to conduct the exercises and once again, Shekhawat went berserk with his pranks and tomfoolery. But all eyes were on Arun Patil, waiting for him to pick faults in every move Razia made. But oddly enough, Arun did nothing of the sort today, except for making a passing remark in the end, “Aaj mazaa nahin aaya!” True to style, Razia demanded what gives him ‘mazaa’, only to be told she had not entered his range of vision. “Most of the time my eyes were above your head,” he chided. “You have to raise yourself!”
“In that case, we will have to put up a stage in the middle,” Yusuf retorted. “Whoever conducts exercises now will have to stand up on the stage for Arun. Then he will have fun…”
The desire to entertain and be entertained has become so pervasive that at times, it would seem that the exercises are merely incidental. We would do anything, perhaps, even stand on our heads, for that extra laugh. Else, the morning is wasted.
Srichand Arora (from Singapore):
FRIENDS, I am not missing the laughter only, but your day-to-day actions, activities and masti also. Frankly speaking, yaaron jaan jalti hai, BLOG padh kar!!!