New Trend

Of late, we are witnessing a peculiar trend. Over the past few weeks, every day, one person would emerge from the group during the exercises, who may be described as the “toast of the morning”. It could be Srichand Arora or Hari Singh Shekhawat… or Razia Khan, Yusuf Rassiwala or Geeta Sardhana, even Tara Chand. Short of hijacking the morning’s proceedings, this person would continually grab everybody’s attention, dominate all activity, initiate the jokes and pranks and generally, set the mood for the morning. The morning effectively belongs to this person. Next day, it could be someone else.
Significantly, for three days at a stretch, Nafisa Sayed (above, in the middle) has willy-nilly appropriated this position and in the process, raised her fan following in the Club. Shekhawat never tires of telling late-comers how they had missed Nafisa’s brilliant witticisms and one-liners… if only they had come in time. Santosh Tyagi even incorporated a Nafisa Sayed axiom as part of her jokes narration today.
It so happened that Kishor Babani was playing a series of old romantic numbers like Chandan ka badan, chanchal chitwan (Mukesh), Bekarar karke humein yun na jaiye (Hemant Kumar) and Bahaaron phool barsaao, mera mehboob aaya hai (Rafi) when Nafisa, who was listening intently, suddenly posed a question: “Why do men, who have such nice words for women, suddenly change later?”
Everybody’s ears pricked up. “I’ll tell you what happens,” Nafisa explained. “The same man who says ‘Baharon phool barsaao, mera mehboob...’ would later be heard threatening his wife, ‘Tu chup rahegi, ya main aayoon!?!’” Shekhawat (above) found this so funny that he started jumping with his hands in the air, till he doubled up, clutching his stomach and laughing. That itself was a spectacle.
Later, Nafisa was to take a dig at Hari Naraiyani, advising him not to bother about buying property at his age and instead invest time in a temple so that God would be pleased to reserve a "room" for him in heaven. But that is another story.
Renu Babani's PIC SPEAK:
* "Okay ladies, the target is in front. Let's start our verbal attack!"
* "I can't stop laughing. These ladies are too much!"
Harish Wadhwa:
Shekhawat-ji and all those who broke into a hysterical laugh today on hearing Nafisa-ji's musings could relate it to their daily home shouts (LOL)! My sympathies and appreciation to the husband's fraternity who keep their cool and allow their better halves to enjoy the domination.