The second day of Chandigarh Carnival received a great response from the Tri City residents and tourists.The most-awaited annual festival of Chandigarh has a Bollywood quotient and the carnival festivities are dipped in merriment, entertainment showcasing the different era and aspects of 100 years in Indian Cinema, the theme of the Chandigarh Carnival this year.
An Evening in Paris Bollywood set by College of Architecture continued to pull huge crowd and the students not only created similar role scenario of the popular pair of Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore of the Golden era of Bollywood but also gave an opportunity to the visitors, students to get themselves photographed with the Classic Vintage Scooter and Volkswagen most popular car of the era of 1960s.
The touch of nostalgia was so much at this stall that all visitors wanted to get themselves photographed in their own style to take them to their dream golden era of Bollywood. Another activity stall put up by Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Academy had great attraction as artistes dressed up as clowns charmed the old and youngsters who were also keen to get themselves photographed in different costumes’ available at this stall.
The clowns also performed song sequences on the theme Bajta hi raha ghungroo ki tarah.There were day-long performances by NZCC artists, theater plays continued to have special attraction with plays like Share-aam Khule-aam.Antakshari and solo songs from the audience at the main stage were also a great hit at the carnival village.
Bombay Talkie had various film screened for public like Forts of India, life pictorial stories like Zora Sehgal, Habib Tanvir etc on Saturday. The CITCO Da Vehra also attracted a lot of visitors who enjoyed various delicacies been prepared by experienced chefs. This year, the Hotel Mountview Bakers’ Zone stall dishes out a variety of bakery items inspired by Bollywood personalities and movies which the visitors find quite interesting and unique.