In Full Steam

Managing Committee deliberates on the budget for Annual Function

Preparations for the club Annual Day Function gathered momentum with Kiran Prakash today calling an impromptu meeting of the managing committee to finalise a budget for the event. He had come equipped with facts and figures from a local ‘decorator’ for putting up a stage in the Garden and with additional inputs from Kajal Babani and Yusuf Rassiwala a ballpark figure was arrived at for staging the show on the evening of December 16, 2017.
The managing committee approved the budget -- to be borne entirely out of Club funds.
Meanwhile, rehearsals for the variety programme are already in full steam, even as details of the items to be staged have not yet been firmed up. Bijoy Gupta is separately working on the script of his play -- a major highlight of this year’s programme (ref post of October 6). There will also be group songs, a short skit, parodies of song-and-dance sequences from yesteryear films, etc.
All this is in the nature of an exploratory exercise, the idea being to identify and tap available talent in the club. The possibility of inducting external talent is also not being ruled out.
The real preparatory work would begin in all earnestness from next month – once the group going on the Bangkok Tour returns on November 7.