LATIKA VIHAR KE BOLLYWOOD TOP 5

Latika Vihar is our own little Neverland. The place where no one ever grows up, in fact it is the place where even grown ups return to their childhood.

That is what happens every time I go there, I forget how old I am and just have fun. This article is not about how and what we do at Latika Vihar, but about the we did on June 12, 2009. This is about Latika Vihar Ke Bollywood Top 5, our play which was great fun to do and equally fun to watch. Ah! How can I leave you out of the process of deciding on the play? I was supposed to decide the play but the children ridiculed, discarded, appreciated and rejected tons of ideas that I gave them so finally I came up with what I thought was the perfect idea which was happily accepted by the children (PHEW!) the idea was of a TV Show. But the acceptance came with a rider, it had to be a dance show.

But I was ready for the challenge, if they were smart; I was smarter (ahem! ahem!).

It would be a dance show but with an anchor and advertisements, after all I had to make them act and no TV show is complete without either! This is how Latika Vihar Ke Bollywood Top 5 finally came to be.

A group of 24 children were divided into three groups. Each group came up with a list of their top ten bollywood songs and three of their favorite advertisements. The lists were tallied songs that were common were picked, that gave us 15 songs! What do we do next? All the songs were loved by the children so we did what any god fearing, democratic organisation does, we voted! Finally the Top 5 were chosen -

Song No 5- Pappu can’t Dance (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na)
Song No 4- Desi Girl (Dostana)
Song No 3- Aye Pappi (Kismet Konnection)
Song No 2- Move Your Body (Kismet Konnection)
Song No 1- Yeh Dooriyan (Fool & Final)

Each song was intersected by an advertisement or poems by children at Latika Vihar and how can we forget our anchor, Anukta.

She was at her witty best, from Priyanka Chopra and Shahid Kapur’s love story to the effect of the return of our very own “Don’ Shaila and lovelorn Rajesh in the absence of his wife, Hema, she spared no one!

Once the show was over and the curtain call done with, the staff, children and guests at Latika Vihar took over the stage and danced away till they dropped!

Those who missed it need not worry as “Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost”, we will see you soon with another performance!