Mesmerising Gurukiran musical show in Dubai

A large crowd of music lovers and fans from all over UAE flocked in to Al Nasr Leisureland much before the time and there was a huge rush at the gates lined up for the gates to be opened.

The gate opened at around 6:45 pm and the music lovers rushed inside the auditorium to see well lit wide stage with great sound and crawling cameras awaiting to the programme to open up. Soon the empty seats got full all over and people were screaming for the show to start.

MC Uttam Menezes opened up the stage inviting the Main Sponsors Shivanand Hebbar of Sapil along with visiting Gem Specialist Ashok Purohit, Entrepreneur Aryabhata Awardee, Praveen Shetty of Fotune Hotel, Rajyostava Awardee, Shekar Shetty of Arab Udupi Group of Hotels, President of Devadiga Sangha, Harish Sherigar & Daijiworld Chief Editor, Walter Nandalike and the host Noel D'Almeida & Flavy Almeida on to the stage for lighting the lamp. The audience were invited to stand up and pray for the success of the programme before the lighting of lamp. Later on behalf of the organisers, Walter Nandalike while wishing the programme all success also announced the hot news of Aryabhata award to Praveen Shetty to the audience. All the guests on the stage were honoured with mementos and flower bouquets.

Uttam briefed about the programme and invited and introduced the visiting MC VJ Anushree who then took over the entire programme smilingly with her cute voice and sense of humour.

Attracted by all the bachelor boys around the auditorium she was greeted with whistles every time she popped on the stage. Anushree a Zee TV's latest female find started her career as a VJ at Namma TV in Mangalore and went on feature in prominent Shows like, Comedy Khiladigalu and twenty-twenty Comedy cup, Namasthe Kasturi etc.

The programme started with singing and Anushree introduced all the singers one by one to the Dubai audience starting with Chitra a very talented singer Chitra who opened up with a rocking Kannada number followed by Chetan and Harish Sherigar who stole the hearts of the music lovers with his 'Noorondu Nenepu Yedeyaala dindha'. Followed was a foot tapping dance item by local team 'Ocean Kids' lead by the leading Choreographer Vinod.

The main macho man Guru Kiran was later introduced superbly along with the dancers dancing around him who were also flown in from India. Guru rocked the stage with his dual performance and the audience were cheering up with 'once more' slogans. Guru a Mangalorean is not only a Music composer but also a Sandalwood actor who made a strong name in Kannada Filmdom wherein singers await a chance to record a song with him.

It was mimicry artist Dayanand who took the audience into splits with his superb comedy and mimicry performance. He also introduced and greeted the guest stars Ragini and Yogi who were seated along with the audience enjoying every bit of the show. Other than the musical team, film personalities like Komal Kumar, hero of Kannada film industry who is brother of comedy actor Jaggesh was also part of the show.

Komal Kumar is very famous comedian in Kannada Film industry currently doing Hero role in "Chamkaysi Chindi Udaysi" and presented some comedy item and song. Komal Kumar along with his co-star Parul Yadav, heroin of Kannada Film Industry presented a dance number appreciated by the audience.

The programme continued with music and singing by play back singers Malgudi Shubha who presented various Kannada songs including 'Kodagana Koli Nungitha' inviting aspirant singers from the audience who jumped on the stage and performed along with her. Actor Yogi also presented the famous 'Kolaveri D' song and later Ragini was invited to the stage to step a dance along with other dancers.

Also it was a little girl called Kum. Akshata of Dubai who stole the hearts of the audience with her 'Chikni Chameli' Hindi number and one could see a large group of audience dancing at the rear end of the auditorium with full enthusiasm.

In between the show was a product launch by the Main Sponsor Sapil. Hebbar and his team with guests Star Ragini and the dancers presented the launch of their new scent 'Just Jasmin' beautifully spreading the fragrance all over.

The epitome of the show was the 'jugal bandi' between Drummer Devanand and Guitarist Stephen which went on till almost half an hour totally mesmerizing the audience who went spell bound when they could hear the beats of 'mridhangham' crystal clear in Stephen's guitar.

Devas classical beats in the drum for the tune of various classical tunes coming out of Stephen's guitar in the way of violin, sitar, tabla and what not, was one of the unique experiment in UAE. Audience cheered them up and had wanted this to have happened much earlier in the show since it was already 11:30 pm.

On the whole it was a guaranteed magic and music of Kannada film industry which filled the evening with superb soul stirring music, songs, style and performances by Gurukiran and his troupe who rocked the stage at Al Nasr Leisureland Dubai with choicest selection of various songs and music blended with dance entertaining the music hungry audience of UAE.