No, none of us have fallen sick but I am just recovering (or rather absorbing) what I witnessed yesterday. As soon I reached the show venue, I was shocked to see thousands and thousands of fans lines up in long queues to get inside the LA Sports Arena. There was just so much enthusiasm amongst all of them that I decided at that very moment that I am going to sit and watch this entire show, no juggling between backstage and front stage this time… But ya I did go backstage once to wish everyone luck and for the group prayer. Those two minutes that we hold hands and pray together just puts our energies into another level and gives us that extra push to go give it our very best. s soon as we finished praying, Abhishek shouted ‘What time is it? and we all shouted back louder “SHOWTIME!!!” The show began and I got myself placed comfortably on the front row. One by one the stars came for their individual acts and blew the audiences. It was the third show I was watching but I still as mesmerized as I was after the first one. All of them, Riteish, Preity, Abhishek, Aishwarya, Vishal, Shekhar and Amitabh put up spectacular performances. Abhishek got everyone to their feet and made them dance with him on his popular song Dus Bahane. He even called on stage four audience members to learn the steps with him and then go back to teach them to the rest of the fans present…Also when Abhishek was introducing Aishwarya on stage after his act was over, he very sweetly said, ‘LA you are so beautiful, all you people are so beautiful but not as beautiful as the person who is coming on next.’ He then said, ‘that I can sit here all night to talk about the next performer but if I do that I would have to sleep on the couch and that I don’t want’, the crowd broke into a thunderous applaud. In fact Abhishek and Riteish came up for an impromptu jig when Ash was on stage and sitting in the audience one could feel the amazingly friendly vibe between the three of them… so brilliant!

Then I gasped loudly for breath when the announcement said that the next performer was Madhuri Dixit.. But you know what is so great about watching her dance live is that everyone comes with a whole of expectations from her and she just outshines them all. She is perfection personified..She danced to some of her most popular numbers, starting with Dance of Envy (Dil to Pagal Hai) to Ek Do Teen (Tehzaab) to Dhak Dhak (Beta) to Ke Sera Sera (Pukar) to her recent super hit Aaja Nachle.. and left each and every person in the audience spellbound… The already super-active venue came alive with shouts of encore when Madhuri finished her act and she obviously did not leave them disappointed. In fact what the audiences got next was double treat! The drama of Devdas came alive of the Unforgettable Stage when the two most gorgeous women moved to the tunes of Dola Re and set new standards, created new benchmarks in live performances…

There was a new act this time as a part of the extravaganza called ‘Shades of Love’. The Unforgettable Stars brought out different emotions related to love and portrayed them to perfection in their performances. Riteish danced to Del De Diya Hai, Preity on a song from Veer Zara and Abhi-Ash on Tera Bina from Guru and one really needed to be there to see that awesome chemistry between the two of the them, making everyone’s heart go a little weak. And not like the choreography of the other acts doesn’t make you go ‘WOW’ for the ‘Shades of Love’ section I do think that Shiamak outdid himself. I have never seen the emotion of love presented so beautifully in any dance form..

The finale song ‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’ was undoubtedly the most rocking thing I have ever, or would have ever imagined. I had never thought that I would see Amitabh, Madhuri, Aishwarya, Abhishek, Preity, Ritiesh, Vishal and Shekhar grooving together, that too in such close proximity. ‘Unforgettable’, well thats the only word that comes to my mind after seeing this..

Well I apologize that i couldn’t write this as soon as the show was over. Don’t blame it, it was a wifi connectivity issue. So the moment I got ‘connected’ I wrote this, was really dying to share the superb LA experience. By the way we have reached San Francisco and the show here is in a couple of hours.

Will write as soon as I am back from the SFO Show!