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And when the teacher he admired the most hugged him and thanked him and everyone involved for the amazing performance, he realized he and his friends just made that day one of the most memorable days for all the teachers.

He loved dancing and he was pretty good at it but only his family knew that. His dad loved to watch him dance whenever there was a song on the Television. As he grew up the in-house shows stopped, but his love for dance never faded. Every time he listens to a dance number he closes his eyes and composes his own steps – he dances in his head, he does it even now.

It was their last year in school and everyone wanted it to be memorable. Two weeks before Teachers’ day when he said, “Let’s dance” everyone replied, “Yes, let’s do it”, even though none of them were good at dancing. They realized, dancing on Teacher’s day was the best chance they could have to make the last year memorable.

It was the same every year. An introduction speech, a group dance (which had a few guys, pretty much acting like props), a couple of songs by the school’s best singers, a skit (which had the same theme every year) and then the final dance by the famous all-girls group. Every time this group was on stage you could bet on your life that one of the songs was Dhola Re Dhole (from Devdas). They didn’t care what the song was, it was permutations and combinations of the same dance steps in every event – Inter-House competitions, Annual Day, Teachers’ Day. There was never a performance by an all-boys group in any event and these guys wanted to be the debutants.

He was a good dancer but not a very good choreographer. He had a hard time composing new steps, but had a bigger problem training his friends. And because of the time they had to, unwillingly, take help from their rivals. One of the girls introduced them to a guy who was a couple of years older. After looking at a few steps he suggested they realized he was the one who trained the girls group. He did not have any thing new to show and the last thing they wanted was to imitate the girls. They watched all the dance shows that were aired in those 4 days and came up with some steps to suit the songs.

They were scheduled to dance before the girls group. Everyone was looking forward to seeing them on stage. They promised to put on the best show ever and they made sure no one knew the songs they were dancing to, they wanted it to be a surprise. No sooner did they go on stage than the whistles and applause started. They started off with Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) and when the 2nd song (Gajuvaka pilla – one of the top tollywood songs during those days) started everyone went crazy. It was the first time anyone’s danced to a telugu ‘mass’ song at their school. The cheer got louder when ‘Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai’ started and they finished off with another telugu ‘mass’ song. It took more than 10mins for the cheering to stop. As soon as they stepped down from the stage, everyone ran towards them to congratulate their brilliant performance and when their teacher hugged them, they knew their effort paid off. It was the most memorable day of his life. There was total silence when the girls were dancing and when ever the girls from the audience tried to cheer them the guys shouted “Sssshhh!!”. And as everybody guessed the last song was Dhola Re Dhola!

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