INDIA: Indian folk musicians and hotel students prepare ahead of Hurley wedding celebrations

Record ID: 1375215

  • Title: INDIA: Indian folk musicians and hotel students prepare ahead of Hurley wedding celebrations
  • Date: 16th March 2007
  • Summary: JODHPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA (MARCH 7, 2007) (ANI) VARIOUS OF TWO MUSICIANS PLAYING TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS RAJASTHANI MUSICIANS PERFORMING YOUNG BOYS WITH COLORFUL TURBANS DANCING (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) GAZI KHAN, A FOLK MUSICIAN, SAYING: "We are very happy about the fact that we are going to get an opportunity to present our country's folk music to a celebrated international audience. We will try our best to make them happy." VARIOUS OF STUDENTS OF A HOTEL MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE DURING A TRAINING SESSION STUDENTS STANDING TEACHERS SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) SURILI, STUDENT, INSTITUTE OF HOTEL MANAGEMENT, JODHPUR, SAYING: "I have thought that I will be very patient while doing the service. I'll have good presence of mind so that I can do my job very well."
  • Embargoed: 31st March 2007 22:45
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVACL4K9K5KEJ4CDCVJG53AJBEEK
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  • Story Text: Celebrity guests at the high-profile Indian-style wedding of actress Elizabeth Hurley on Friday (March 9) will be treated to the enigmatic sounds of long-lost traditional musical instruments.
    A group of Indian folk musicians from the historic city of Jodhpur in the desert state of Rajasthan are all geared up for the mega wedding.
    Noted folk musician Gazi Khan, who has performed at several international concerts, says the Hurley wedding is an honour for his troupe.
    "We are very happy about the fact that we are going to get an opportunity to present our country's folk music to a celebrated international audience. We will try our best to make them happy," Khan said in between rehearsals.
    Meanwhile, students of city's Institute of Hotel Management are equally excited as Khan's troupe about their forthcoming assignment.
    Thirty top students of the Institute have been selected to serve the guests at the wedding bash.
    And many of them have their own secret formulas for the big night.
    "I have thought that I will be very patient while doing the service. I'll have good presence of mind so that I can do my job very well," said Surili, a student.
    Surili and her colleagues will be serving the guests at the Hurley wedding obscure Indian cuisine from Rajasthan, including wheat dumplings mixed into a soup of savoury lentils and food wrapped in leaves and cooked by embers while buried in the earth.
    Hurley, 41, her 42-year-old husband Indian businessman Arun Nayar and their 240 guests are enjoying the kind of pageantry once reserved for maharajahs in the northwestern state.
    The celebrities, and the international press pack following them, have only bemused the residents of Jodhpur, most of whom are hearing about Hurley and Nayar for the first time.
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