‘Dance Class’

Isharon Isharon Mein...

All those who came for Arora’s sake yesterday (ref post) were absent today. Arora himself did not come. And of those who were present – particularly, with Razia Khan in the middle, Shekhawat at his friskiest best and O.P.Nayyar’s music in the air – what could we have this morning, but a "dance class".
That was the expression Banoo Apa had used to describe the atmosphere of carefree abandon during the exercises today, triggered mainly by the foot-tapping numbers playing on Arun Patil’s music box. Shekhawat simply could not hold himself. He was desperately looking for a dance partner and at one point, had even drawn Swati Punjabi in for company. The moment Razia arrived, Swati was promptly banished from the scene!
Together, Shekhawat and Razia set the floor in motion, repeatedly criss-crossing the circle and interrupting the exercises while the rest of us clapped lustily to songs like ‘Isharon Isharon Mein’ and ‘Tarif Karun Kya Uski’.
Nobody knows if there is a name to the dances Shekhawat and Razia performed. But it must be said that both are extremely nimble-footed for their age and blessed with a terrific sense of rhythm.

"What kind of mard are you? You are not a man!"

If Shekhawat was flailing his arms and galloping at one spot, Razia mimicked the stop-start moonwalk, lip-synching and moving off at a tangent. And then it was Shekhawat’s turn to glide away in another direction and Razia, left mid-step, arms out-stretched like an aeroplane, had no option but to resume the exercises.
It was all so spontaneous and hilarious – even if the ghosts of O.P.Nayyar, Mohammad Rafi and Shammi Kapoor would have been cursing us from above. But like all good things it had to end and the focus shifted to Bijoy Gupta, who arrived at the closing minutes of the session. Shekhawat apparently has given up on extracting Rs100,000 from him and came up with a new name for Gupta. “You are not even a man,” he said angrily. “You are Zero Chairman!”
It hardly made a difference to Gupta.
Jagmohan Papneja:
Shekhawat-ji's dance style reflects his true personality. He starts dancing and jumping when he hears on a hit tune. This makes him a unique person, different from others.