Laughter Dance

Today was Kishore Kumar's day on Kishor Babani’s mobile with the 'Hum thhey, woh thhi…’ number (from Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi) kicking off the morning exercises. Soon, another classic from the same film came on – ‘Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si’. By then Razia Khan, who was in the middle, had reached the Slow and Fast laughter round.
All of a sudden, taking everybody by surprise, she stopped the exercise and started dancing to the song. Instantly Shekhawat joined her (left pic), keeping pace with the catchy beats in his inimitable style. And before we could even realize what was happening, Nahid Khan, Ved Prakash Grover and Kishor were all clapping and dancing in gay abandon.
Never before had this happened. People on the walking track stopped mid-stride to marvel at our antics. It all happened so abruptly and unexpectedly that everybody just laughed and laughed, egging us to carry on. If ever there can be a spontaneous explosion of joy to be seen, here it was!
Later, after the exercises, Shekhawat discussed the progress made on organising the Diwali party for the next week-end. He distributed some photographs also, which were taken on the Lonavala trip (below, left) last week-end. There was also some talk of the earthquake that hit Bombay last night. Nahid Khan, who appeared to be still shaken up by the tremors, was comforted by Nafisa Syed with these prophetic words: “The only jhatka you should really be scared of is the one your daughter-in-law can give you. Nothing else matters.”
Probably what she meant was, that would be the ultimate zor ka jhatka!