Kingdom of Kitsch
I was at the Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon earlier this month for an event that kept me otherwise occupied. Found the time, eventually, to take some photographs of India’s first live entertainment destination. Replete with sandstone elephants, betel-leaf shaped kiosks, giant mirrored plant motifs, and all manner of water bodies, it houses the Culture Gully – a contrived food-street under a sky dome suffused with twilight – and the hi-tech theatre, Nautanki Mahal.
It was in the latter, where I sat imbibing the classic colours, flavours, music, and theatrics of Zangoora, an 
imaginative reconstruction of a Bollywood song-and-dance routine, that it hit me. What I was viewing was not merely a Shiamak Davar choreographed performance enacted flawlessly by amazingly talented professional dancers. It was, indeed, the coming-of-age of Confident India. Shunning, refreshingly so, a penchant for choosing Western elements over things indigenous, it was a real delight being in the midst of a soiree that was so…so…well, Indian.
Nothing quite says “we are like this only” as does this Kingdom of Kitsch. A must-experience.
Thanks for making the arm chair travel to this place possible.
Anytime 🙂
I agree ! Its a must for all our guests from abroad and even the food is great ! However after viewing Zangoora from all possible angles ( it appears different depending on where you are seated) …the kick for me ‘now” is the excitement to show it to the guests !
I hear you. I was quite smitten!
Looks like a place to visit next time I am in Ggn…. nice pics with the flavor of the place.
Thanks and welcome to Cutting Loose 🙂