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Gals have a ball at male pageant

Alka Rastogi
LUCKNOW, October 31

Ogling heavenly bodies is no male prerogative and women in Uttar Pradesh proved that with a vengeance at a fashion show organised after a year long hiatus.

While the Pulsar Mr North India show organised at the Hotel Taj Residency in Lucknow was an all-boys affair, fittingly in a state now ruled by a lady Chief Minister, it was the girls who had the most fun. The damsels at the venue were certainly not the ones in distress as an enthusiastic crowd gave the twenty-seven hunks parading the ramp the full treatment.

The catcalls began soon after Mr Uttranchal took the stage. Labelled 'panther of the hills' by his female tormentors, the transformation from roaring tiger to mewing pussy was surprisingly quick.

Bare chests were clearly unpopular and the girls made little secret of their preference for a more 'hair raising' experience. The He-men in the male menagerie did not fare any better and were unceremoniously discarded to the scorn-heap as objects-of-no-desire. 'Hey, you didn't set my pulse racing', was the common complaint. Most of the barbs were in fact sharp enough to make any man in the near vicinity want to curl up and die.

Dismissive or not, the Amazonians lost no chance of casting an amorous eye upon the goods on display. There was good-natured laughter all around as the ladies sighed and moaned in appreciation at show of rippling muscles and bulging pectorals.

A nubile youngster swaying to the beats of a song from the blockbuster movie Devdas added colour to the proceedings. There were many red faces when the aspiring Mrs Nene was eventually exposed as a cream-and-peaches participant in a drag act.

The evening in hunk heaven was such a delightful experience for the largely female audience that it has led to demands for an encore. And with such a loyal fan following to fall back upon, male pageants in Uttar Pradesh would surely be a blast.

Anybody listening?