Dhak festival at Chaltabagan Puja

Monday, September 20^th 2011: The day before Yesterday I arranged for a Dhak Festival organized by the Manicktala Chaltabagan Lohapatty Durga Puja Committee in front of the Puja Pandal.

It was the first time any Puja Committee has organized such an event, as far as my knowledge goes.

It just occurred to me that it was a Sunday and Vishwakarma Puja and all film shooting at Tollywood was closed and most of the actors and artists would be relatively free. So why not have a get together of all celebs.

The celebs from all walks of life Tollywood, artists, diplomats, industrialists and the city's music fraternity tried their hands on the dhak. Pallavi Chatterjee and Gargi Roy Chowdhury danced to the dhak beats of D J Akash while Usha Utthup sang a song on Chaltabagan Puja on the tune of her hit song Daaa…rling.

It’s the sound of dhak that reminds us of the onset of the Pujas. Everybody enjoyed themselves thoroughly and I plan to have a dhak festival before the Pujas from this year onwards.

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