Mangaluru :

The city was subsumed by a riot of colours. The much-touted Konkani Holi, or Okkuli, as it is popularly called here, drew vast numbers of people to paint the town red, blue, green and more.

The Monday’s devout ‘Kodial Theru’ crowd on Car Street was replaced by colour-splashing youth on Tuesday.

The SVT Mat Friends dished out filmy numbers on a makeshift stage on the left of Sri Venkataramana Temple, and another band of motley crew struck all the right chords, making the crowd sway to their music.

Friends sneaking on friends with their hands full of bright, fluorescent colours, and the latter trying to flee only added to the festive fun. This year, for a change, girls were not reticent when it came to dishing it back to boys for daubing them in colours.

Doting mothers watched their children, when they were running about playing with everyone on the street. Tankers spraying water on the revelers saw Car Street awash with multiple colours. Youth made a dash for sachets of wafers and other snacks which were thrown around from the tankers.

Both young and old merrily participated in the colour-splashing battle. Even the jolly old men in their sixties broke a leg when they dance to the hit number ‘Premanathe Pass Aathe,’ which featured Bollywood’s comedy king Johnny Lever from the Tulu movie Rang.

The countless moments of joy and laughter were visibly evident as the residents took part in the festive fun and frolic.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Mangaluru / TNN / January 28th, 2015