Celebration of Youth Month with Rotaractors

As we all know, Rotaractors are a part of the global community of young adults taking action for positive change.  Rotaract Clubs bring together youth ages 18 – 30 to take action in their communities, develop their leadership and professional skills and have fun…

To celebrate the Youth Month in September, Rotaract Clubs sponsored by our Club were invited to showcase their talents in singing, dancing and drama in our regular meeting held on 10^th September, 2014…  Five of our Rotaract Clubs viz. Rotaract Clubs of Andheri, Mithibai College, N.M.College, Sathaye College and Usha Pravin Gandhi College accepted the invitation and performed to a full house of almost 150 in the audience.

The show began with two outstanding street plays by UPG College and N.M.College.  While UPG College play depicted atrocities and ills in our society, more particularly on the women, the play by N.M.College focused on child abuse in India.  Both the plays were enacted with very strong performances and well-written scripts conveying extremely powerful messages to the audience. If these are the concerns of the educated youth of today, we can be sure there is a ray of hope for a new India free of the present day evils and tribulations.

This was followed by hi-energy dance performances by N.M.College, Mithibai College and Sathaye College which were quite entertaining and applauded by the appreciative audience. Surely, the participants had put in a lot of hours practicing the steps as the groups were hip-hopping to the Bollywood numbers in perfect sync.

After the street plays and dances the rotaractors presented their singing talent.  Ritu Kapadia the sole representative from Rotaract Club of Andheri enthralled the audience by singing two numbers, one in English and the other one in Gujarati.  A group of participants representing UPG College performed ‘Accapella’ which is singing without accompanying musical instruments and using the beauty of human voice entirely for musical entertainment.  The performance was truly enjoyable.  Rotaractors from Sathaye College sang the soul-stirring Tujhe Sab Hai Pata Meri Maa…” accompanied by Guitar.  

The show ended with a trained classical singer, Devyani from Mithibai College, singing three melodious numbers to leave the audience asking for more.

Rotary Ann Neelima Raval, President of Inner Wheel Club of Bombay West and Rtn.Rajul Doshi adjudged Rotaract Club of UPG College as no.1 entertainers.  The no.2 position was shared by Rotaract Clubs of Sathaye College and Mithibai College.  The cash prizes to the winning Clubs were sponsored by Rtn.Apurva Nanavati.  Calvin Klein, well-known for its range of frangrances and co-sponsors of the event gave away free-gifts to each and every participant. The sponsorship was arranged by Ms.Poorna Doshi, daughter of Rtn.Rajul Doshi and Late Rtn.Satish Doshi.

Rtn.Chandramohan Saigal ably compeered the programme while Rtn.Harminder Patheja gave a hearty vote of thanks.