The boring Bangalore crowd

Shreya Ghoshal and Sonu Nigaam were in town! And that simple sentence is probably enough to get your attention. They were performing at the APS college grounds in Basavanagudi as part of the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. And the cost of the entry ticket was.. wait for it... zero!! That's right. It was free.

And as with everything free in India, the number of attenders was indeed a lot. Young and old alike stood in the queue to enter the concert. And as usual, there were the few self assuming "senior citizens" who bulldozed past many of us who were standing in the queue just because they are old. Now, I have nothing against old people or queues. Its just the combination that I'm not too fond of. A note to all people who might organize such concerts... please have a separate special queue for "senior citizens", and you will be able to cope with half of your problems. Have separate seats reserved for "Senior Citizens" and hence put all party-poopers in one basket.

What is the main intention of attending a concert? To have fun and to listen to music. and what to these housewives and old grandmothers do? come to the concert and talk family politics. Such killjoys. And then there were the ones who believed that they were attending a serious classical recital. They sat there with their strict, emotionless pokerfaces and expected everybody to do the same. Another category of people included the ones who wanted to have fun but feared their lowering in social stature if they went with the flow.

All in all, the Bangalore crowd (read, basavanagudi crowd) is a very boring one. If anybody is planning to go, please go there with a large group if you want to have fun, ?If not, enjoy listening to family problems along with bits and pieces of every song.

P.S. Shreya Ghoshal... You rock!!!

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