Dahi Handi… Gokulashtami…Celebration of Joy for the birth of Lord Krishna! What a festival, unique, vibrant and yet again colourful. There was a time when the mornings of Gokulashtami would start with the cries and shouts of “Govinda re Gopala, Yashodecha Tanhya Bala” (Govinda, Gopala, the baby son of Mother Yashoda)… Young kids used to run along the streets asking for water, getting wet in the water thrown from the balconies and pipes from people’s homes. It was something else altogether; the atmosphere, the mood, everything was just so different! But politics didn’t leave even the festivals alone… Right from announcing a heavy sum on the Handi to awarding different Mandals loads of money, they won’t stop at anything…
But this time’s Handi was much more than just political… It was star-studded and had a different cheer to it… John Abraham, Ameesha Patel, Udita Goswami, Neha Dhupia, etc… But just the presence of celebs was not what was different in the atmosphere; there was Anna fever everywhere… John Abraham, who had come to Thane to promote his film Force, celebrated Handi with the Thane-aites. He not only broke the Handi which was said to be the ‘anti-corruption Handi’ with his head, he said, it is corruption that needs to be broken. He spoke in chaste Marathi and sported a Gandhi-topi in support of anna.
Watch the event unfold in front of your eyes right here- http://fridaymoviez.com/bollywood/videos/john-abraham-celebrates-dahi-handi/8745
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