Nari Sammaan Samaroh, National Fashion Show
Season 7 wraps in city with tribute to women achievers
Pratham Raj
RANCHI
Women are not waiting for a seat at the table anymore. They are building their own, and that is more or less what came through all evening at Sakman Bhagya Foundation and Magadh Production’s Nari Sammaan Samaroh Samaroh and National Fashion Show, Season 7, held on July 4th at Hotel Radisson Blu.
Several women achievers spoke through the evening. Defence, engineering, sports, the names changed but the point did not, women are getting into the rooms they were kept out of for a long time, and staying there.
The evening headline speaker was Shubhlakshmi Sharma, a former Indian international cricketer from Jharkhand, she played Tests, ODIs and T20Is for the country between 2011 and 2015. She talked mostly about sport back home, football, hockey, archery, and how Jharkhand’s list of names is growing well past the one everybody already knows, MS Dhoni. She pointed out that there is a lot more talented youths coming out of this state.
The event also featured Models from Pantaloons and Modi Boutique, who performed several rounds of fashion walk, outfits swinging from festive to something closer to street wear.
None of that is what people will talk about tomorrow though. A five year old will. Shreeja Mukherjee walked out, barely tall enough to be seen past the front row, and did a couple of classical dance performance that had grown adults pulling out their phones mid performance. It is a strange thing to watch, someone that young performing so brilliantly like she has been doing this at such a young age. Technique, timing, none of it read like a kindergartener. By the time she was done, she had quietly taken the whole evening away from the cricketers and the models both.
First time this event has come to Jharkhand, and organiser Ashutosh will probably count it a win. The same format that has previously run in Kolkata and New Delhi for the last two years. The tribute, recognition, fashion, one evening. Ranchi’s version had its own moments though, and a five.
