Anjana Sukhani is busy shooting for " Department" and "Maximum" these day because of which she did not get any time off to play dandiya, something which she loved doing when she was in Jaipur.
Like everyone, Anjana also enjoyed those events with her school/college friends. "We used to get together and since none of us owned umpteen ghagras and jewellery, we used to exchange the outfits and decide beforehand ke 'Iss party mein I will wear this, so in the next dandiya party, you wear mine'," recalls the actor.
And it comes as no surprise when Anjana lets in that during her school days, she wanted to master the art of dandiya and so she coaxed her friends do join the dandiya workshops in Jaipur. "You know," say Anjana, "We wanted to be perfect at playing the dandiya and, of course, win prizes. But at the eleventh hour, few friends backed out and we were left playing mediocre dandiya."
Anjana also has a grouse with the way the dandiya nights are shaping up these days. "When I was in school, dandiya night parties used to go on till late, but these days, the deadline is 10pm, which I think is unfair because these dandiya nights happen once in a year," says Anjana. Though she really wanted to attend the month long extravaganza in the city, work held her back from coming to her hometown.
Anjana laments, "Those fun days I spent in Jaipur can never come back into my life now. These days, we do get invited to dandiya and garba events, but being an actor, and a public figure underplays the whole idea of enjoying the festival." She adds, "Recently, I visited Nagpur and Ahmedabad as I was invited as the celebrity guest and I enjoyed doing dandiya with the college students there."
