Bhangaar Meetup

Mangesh had been away for more than a year now, and is coming back to town. So all of us Bhangaars with their respective Bhangar-is decided to meetup somewhere.

So the mail thread commenced. Harsh and Rahulya could not resist from getting overexcited about the event and formalize the whole thing. Harsh said that 19 people would meetup so lets make it to Lonavala or somewhere, what the! 19 people (which was a miscalculation BTW.- as admitted by him- to 21 hahahaaa) from where... his idea was that all of us (Mangya, Rahulya, Zadya and myself meetup with all family). I mean common!!! I mean Mangesh is coming back after such a long time and this is the best time to have the wacky talk underway, rather that tight-lip ourselves and refrain from the ritual talk under a good-boy cover. To add to the melodrama, Rahulya suggested we meetup at some resort like Manas- which has boating swimming and all fantasies. I could literally imagine Rahulya dancing on his seat as he typed the mail with all 32 teeth flashing. Mangya was into splits when I related the mail thread with him (I met up with him that evening to decide more on the Big meetup). So after some more mails and taking weight from Mangya's, Zadya's and my opinion that it would be just all the Bhangaars and their spouses for the meetup - Zadya cooked up his own melodrama and set the meeting spot in the city somewhere near MIT tekdi in a hotel called Nakshatra.

So date decided was 6th May saturday at night somewhere around 7pm (against the 6:30pm decision). So after a lot of mis-timeliness (except from Rahulya and Harsh) all of us were finally at the meetup at around 8:30pm! The perfect time for the start of Dinner (Mangesh and Rajyashree being the last to arrive (Viva la Pardeshis).

SO these were the ppl - Rahulya and Samruddhi - Harshya and Triveni - Zadya and Mugdha - Mangya and Rajyashree and me alone :). The event started with the usual laughter over anything that's nothing, and the casual slaps on the back of the head. The way we were seated was all ladies together at one side and guys at the other (really speaking, the guys and girls sort of shared a part of each side of the corner rectangular table on the open terrace of Nakshtra hotel). Then came in -Harsh's brainomatics- the cake (Black forest an excellent option against from the little cut cake alternatives from college days -thanks to my Bhabis :-)). So started the event of placing a No. 3 candle (to signify 3 years of potential togetherness on Mangya's 3rd wedding anniversary -the previous day May 5th) on the cake and the round robin tournament to get the match-stick to light which came to light on the second box of match-sticks! So then Mangya cut the cake and Rahulya overenthusiastically splat some cream on his face (which Mangya readily offered) but lady Mangya ran to the other end of the terrace. Harshya did click some snaps with his mobile phone- which obviously are yet to be shared which never will - the usual :)

In no time the soups (some Irani stuff with an even wierder name) and starters were done. It took us well over 1/2 hour to place the main course order -every one had their own option and preferences (but as we had it what we eventually ordered was no different to what we would have had anyways). So had a hearty dinner and an amazing time pulling each others leg and cracking all sorts of jokes and recollecting old times! (I must say this Bhangaar group is really no different with the new Bhangaaris :) Hats off!).

So we were done with dinner and at that time Sandya decided to call (from the US). So we had a round robin with Mangyas Mobile again, and had a great time chatting with him. Zadya 'n Mugdha left as they had to pick their daughter from Mugdha's house. Finally the dinner came to an end with my option for Fresh Lime soda for desert (hmm.. :P) . Post payment (Mangesh's treat) we made or way to the Nakshtra main gate where we munched on some amazing Magai Paan. The meetup ended the traditional way -a lot of talk and laughter as though the meetup has just started types!

Eventually we decided to give it a chill and take off for the night! The time ticked somewhere near 11:30pm. It was a faboulous meetup!

Btw. for those who dont know - Bhangaars is a group of us friends (Mangesh-Mangya/Hadkul, Sandeep-Sandya/Leo, Rohit-Zadya, Rahulya-Rahulya/Barik, Harsh-Harshya/Buddha and me-Vindya) from Engineering college days. Basically we were two project groups (1. Mangya Sandya and me - and 2. the rest :) ) that got really close especially in the forth year of engineering, and still live life the same way we did then.

It was a an amazing meetup, after a long time all came together and decided to meetup again somewhere someplace prior to Mangya's departure. Lets see how well that goes :)