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Friday night fever
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More and more people are beating the week’s stress by hitting the dance floor on Friday nights at Muthoot Plaza
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Photo: S. Mahinsha
Rocking it DJ Ryan churning out music for the dance floor
The pounding from the two speaker stacks hits you hard as you step onto the dance floor. But then, that’s the whole point. If shaking a leg is your way of shedding the week’s stress, Friday night at Muthoot Plaza’s roof top is the p
lace to be. Shut out everything else but the music and just dance the night away.
A psychedelic shift
Once the spirit of the place gets to you, the whole ambience takes a psychedelic shift.
In the flashing lights the dancing bodies appear as frame after frame of scintillating steps projected onto the smoke screen over the dance floor.
Pink Floyd makes a surprise appearance and in perfect timing, a green beam scans over the dance floor.
For those with grave reservations about their dancing skills, park yourself in one of those wide chairs and enjoy the trip. But be warned, you might find yourself dragged onto the dance floor by the music, two left feet and all.
In between all this, one cannot but notice the battle for your attention raging from across the roof top.
DJ Savyo, one of the DJs at the hotel, with thousands upon thousands of watts of sound at his finger tips, has a definite technical edge. But ace bartender Rahul is not a man to give up, as he literally sets the bar on fire with his pyrotechnics. Bottles of lit spirits go twisting and turning in the air, almost in rhythm with the music .
When the time came for the spell to be broken and the coaches to turn to pumpkins, the music wound down to a mellower shade.
A couple broke into a random waltz and the atmosphere took on a tinge of romance. Anjana Surendranath and her gang of girls from Radio Mirchi, the divas of the dance floor for the evening, bowed out.
Ajay Thampi, banker by profession and partier by nature, stepped off the dance floor a happy man.
Vikram, another banker (there is more to bankers than you think!), had no trouble in branding the place as having the best party in town. Jackie, Tony and the whole team from England readily agreed.
“I am definitely coming back next week,” says Tom, “the music is great. Just like at home.”
All 2008 releases
Says Savyo, cooling off after his stint, “In the three hours of music, I played just two Bollywood tracks, the rest were all true-blue Club mixes; that too all 2008 releases.”
Together, he and F&B manager Ranjesh are out to teach the citizens of the capital city to club like pros. Keep it small and rocking is Ranjesh’s policy. The event, which started off as a one-off thing during the Twenty-Twenty World Cup, grew into a weekly affair purely on public demand.
P.J. GEORGE
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