One has played enough and more Antakshari growing up and much of my recollection of socialization with family, friends, neighbors and peer group in place of study/ work has some Antakshari associations. It used to be and continues to be such rowdy fun. In my opinion, the best part about Antakshari is the inherent democratic nature of the game.
The rules are very amenable to be changed. Should the song that the next team/ person sing be with the consonant or the word or the vowel? And while Antakshari possibly owes its origins to the thriving music output of Bollywood cinema, there is always the option of changing the language and I daresay create further chaos by making it multi-lingual.
I used to hate Tamil antaksharis though, I mean, my cousins thought that my Tamil was very Delhi(?!) and non cousin Tamilians thought, I was singing in Palghat Tamil(Hmpfh!
). Hindi Anataksharis were certainly the best. The most comic would be English Antakshari.
It sounded insanely funny and I suppose the English music repertoire of most people I knew then, was limited. It was mostly stuff that one picked up from the just launched Times FM radio station and a show hosted by Roshan Abbas called Livewire. Of course, this included very very lame pop music.
Mysterious Girl I wanna get close to you I think many years before one saw a shirtless Salman Khan, there was Peter Andre. I have a very vivid re-collection of the video, the joys of being a C S Household. All of this was essential for the transition from girlhood to womanhood.
One has played enough and more Antakshari growing up and much of my recollection of socialization with family, friends, neighbors and peer group in place of study/ work has some Antakshari associations.
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