Friday, 12 August 2011

Adhurapur- The tourist hotspot

 
Client: Priya Cement


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An overloaded bullock cart hauls up at a half done bridge right in front of a forlorn signboard that spells “Adhura”.
A paan-chewing Dhoti clad, semi mustached little dwarf with a nameplate pinned on his kurta reading ‘guide’ hops. He stretches his hand towards the gray city.Adhurapur is come my frands. I beg you to be getting down taxi”
The tourists hop off the cart one by one. They all sport touristy things like shades, caps, hats, binoculars, waist pouches etc. The pack includes the oldest Caucasian couple in the world, a compulsive spitting lama from South America, an attractive and inquisitive monolingual Bengali lady, a physically expressive tai-chi master kid and a full of beans, perpetually smiling Caribbean Rastafarian.
They all make many impressive stunts and reach ground level.

Everyone hooting and excited
The guide leads his pack into the city. The tourists take out their cameras, binoculars, note pads and study an huge map of Adhurapur city map.

The guide urges them to pay attention.
Please listening, the map to be Adhura.
Adhurapur is a city being built continuously.
The guide explains-
This seaty be building forever, always, but never completing
The guide takes them to the foot of huge, incomplete statue.


Everyone bows.
These fraands be the great founding man of “Adhurapur” let us bow him
The guide then leads them into a park.

The oldest Caucasian lady sits on the oldest Caucasian man who is perched on a semi bench as he feeds her tablets lovingly. They also play the slowest version of hide and seek in a structure of orphaned pillars.
This park for the relaxing.
Then they visit the market place still being built. It is made of roofless, half roofed, semi buildings. The tourist shop at incomplete grocery stores. They buy pick up models of bricks, construction tools etc as souvenirs, they haggle, take pictures, have a complete shopping experience etc.You can soap here and fun here, the Adhurapur Adhura markiit.
The guide takes them through a residential area. The tourists amused by the half structures indulge in some antics the lama climbs up orphaned stairs and spits. The Rastafarian gives high five to people on the road and and people waving from their half balconies. The tai-chi master knocks down walls and pillars to dust. The old couple follows slowly behind taking pictures often with the guide. Our peoples slip and leave in this area.
The guide takes them to some major monuments of the city.These Adhurapur ischool. These Adhupur ispatal…you know hospital. This old place of old king…and so on.
The tour is complete. Frands adhurpur you be seeing is over now, please up the taxi.
The tourists rappel up one foot of the semi flyover to their bullock cart. They take final pictures of the city from the semi flyover.
Against the “Adhura” signboard the guide concludes in the same voice

Poora shehar, hur ek gali, kona kona
d-h-e-e-r-e,
d--h--e--e--r—e, b-a-h-u-t
d—h—h—e—r—e
ek din zaroor poora hoga
A splash of pictures taken during the tour.
MVO- MVO-
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