Well, ok, not so much disco as freestyle dancing. But you get the drift.
Here’s a background on why you are seeing what you are seeing.
Firstly, the characters (aside from yours truly) that were involved in this (mis) adventure are Gaurav Basu and Abhinav Yogesh of Inner Sanctum and Abhijit and Akhil of Heretic.
For those who came in late, Heretic and Inner Sanctum are bands based in Cochin and Bangalore respectively.
It was a cool winter night in Chennai in the last weekend of January 09. By cool, I mean that us people from Bangalore could keep our t-shirts on without much discomfort.
Chennai’s alcohol supply is government regulated, and to further compound the misery of those that wanted to drink a little, these Tasmac shops shut by 2200 in the evening.
Put together these circumstances along with IIT Madras’ Saarang 2009 fest that I had been at to cover the Opeth concert and interview the band, and you have some deprived metal heads who don’t usually sleep early with nothing to do other than sit around.
After finishing the limited supply of alcohol we had (people had to be given their individual shares in eye-droppers), we were generally walking around campus and decided that the next best thing to drinking was to eat.
Gorge we must, and gorge we did, until the food place downed its shutters as well.
Sleep hadn’t arrived yet, and the college fest atmosphere was in the air. The five of us decided to sit around and chill out some more, and then had an epiphany.
We decided to dance, without music, without rhythm, without inhibition and most importantly, without any dancing skills whatsoever.
What you see in the video above is a small capture of this effort. This took place in front of the SAC (student’s activity center) of IIT M.
PS: Check out part 2 as well. I personally like that better.
