Stardom...

Stardom….

As I stood in front of a huge crowd of at least 5000 people consisting of males, females and the rest.. My heart was pumping very fast; I could hear my heart beat even when people were screaming my name…Lights were flashing all around the stadium and even on me.
Me with another five people were on the stage ready to perform a blockbuster song from a bollywood movie. I was on vocals and rest on various instruments.
We had practiced a lot for last one month just to rock on the stage.
Atif Aslam was my inspiration and the song sung by him was chosen. Just about to start the song suddenly there was huge roar in the stadium, I was like shocked, didn’t now we touched the heart of so many people and that to with one line of the song. Only then I came to know that there was a technical issue and people heard none of our play. Confidence came to ground zero and we were quite nervous.
Finally after 5 minutes break, we were all set to perform. Lot of water entered our body during that break.

As I started the song..
:
tumhi ehsaansin mein…
tumhi jazbaaton mein…
tumhi lamhatton mein…
tumhi din raaton mein…
Bakhud..tumhi ho..
Har jagah tumhi ho..haan main dekhun jahhan ab…
Use jagah..tumhi ho…

Etc etc etc………

Tum hi ho..beshubaa…
Tum hi ho….
Tum hi ho…mujhmein haan…
Tum hi ho…
Tum hi ho….ho….
Tum hi…

And when I took this high note just like Atif.People stood on their feet and started clapping. I didn’t have the time to notice that since I was deeply involved in singing.
The singing went on and on…

Tum hi ho….mujhmein haan
Tum hi ho…

Tum hi ho…
Tum hi…

Finally the performance was over, and we just couldn’t believe the response of people. It was a standing applause for about 5 minutes; we could hear people shouting “ once more – once more”. Camera clicks started flashing from all the angles. We were in lime light, cloud 9 as people say.

As we go down the stage and into the crowd. People started hugging us, shaking hands, and so on and so forth. Awesome feeling. Congratulations started falling from all sides. Couldn’t handle this stardom,

Until ……
Until…

I heard some sound from my cell phone…

Airtel ring tone started ringing… only then I realized that it was 5:30 am in the morning and I had to go to office…

Ahem…it was a Dream…. A dream, which made me a Star….

Vineeth
19/03/2010