Holi hai... at Geetanjali club

HAIBOWAL: A play of colours, extra rounds of tambola, "nok jhok" competition and lots of dances made the Geetanjali Ladies Club's Holi celebration a great hit with the members. The members met on Saturday evening at the club in Haibowal.
Monika Malhotra, president of the club said, "The programme started with some members putting "tilak" for advisory members.On Saturday we had jumbo tambola, so instead of the regular two rounds we had four games."
After that there was a "nok jhok" (teasing) competition wherein participants play acted funny scenes between mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law and sisters-in-law. After having their fill of a hearty laugh, they danced on traditional and popular Holi songs like "Holi ke din dil mil jaate hain", "Holi khaleen Raghuveera Awadh main", "Aaj Braj main Holi re rasiya" and "Jaa re natkhat" while smearing colours on each other.
Kitchlu Nagar-resident Komal Arora, an executive member of the club, said she had participated in the "nok jhok" contest. "It was great fun...I played the role of a younger daughter-in-law who is showered with praises by the familya??s elder daughter-in-law to get work done, which leads to some verbal war, after I realized that she is only heaping false praise. Though we didna??t get any prize we enjoyed ourselves," said Komal.
Jatinder Walia and Subhash took the first prize; the second prize was taken by Swati Taneja and Nidhi Tuli; the third prize went to Kusum and Roshan Gupta. All of them played scenes between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Gurmeet Walia, who stays in Dandi Swami Road, said she performed on the song "Aaj braj main Holi re rasiya". "I enjoyed performing and getting everybody into the mood," she added.