Wednesday 3 April 2013

SRK, Katrina, Pitbull star in IPL opening ceremony

IPL inaugural: A mix of Rabindra Sangeet and rap | Let the fun and games begin! | IPL 2013

Promising a "great time" and a "party", the Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Paudkone and Katrina Kaif kept around 50,000 spectators at the brightly-lit Salt Lake stadium - and millions more glued to TV sets in their drawing rooms - with their enthralling performances. The much-awaited show started with classical dancers serenading two giant lamps, and dancing in white, gold and red with diyas in hands. As more dancers joined in, Shah Rukh's voice echoed Tagore's "Where the mind is without fear" in the background.

Music director Pritam's composition that incorporated Afro beats amped up the music as hundreds of children, holding aloft torches that sparkled in the summer evening, moved gracefully on the ground below the elevated stage to form Om.

Jumping into the arena bordered by artificial crags and peaks, cheerleaders in bright hues of red, white, and blue embraced the stage in jumps and lifts as golden curtains drew back to reveal acrobats cartwheeling across the stage.

Spectators cheered as the flying drummers from Europe descended from the roof while back on the grass children grooved to Pritam's composition in a flurry of pompoms, tassels, umbrellas and shimmering red and gold flags.

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