Episode 2
Winning is a habit we never took to. We are a team which believed in making come backs(Like Saurav Ganguly ;) ) But to come back, we first had to come. And come we did when we went to a fest in a college of which none of us had heard off. Fest was a small scale with a hall full of audience who loved our performance. But then, they loved our seniors too. Competition was fierce but no prizes for guessing who came out strong. It was them :P. But then they won by a point...just 1 point. Now we had our target in sight. Everyday Mr Hello daddy, Mr Controversial French beard, Mr NPS passout met up in the afternoon to dish out some new jokes. Mr Repeated jokes came once in a while with the same joke every time(If anybody could refresh me with that joke again!?.) Mr Dancing narrator took time off on the phone(?!?) once a week to discuss the week's progress. Mr Greatest Hijda ever and Mr Wat does that joke mean? had almost forgotten they were part of a mad ads team! Mr Serious Theatre made himself free once in a while to hear all the jokes and pass a comment or two. Best was Mr Drunken Manager (who self appointed himself!) who never managed to manage anything(Not even himself when drunk :D ). For 2 weeks the meetings went on with Mr Hello Daddy coming up with some amazing starts(remember Neil Armstrong?!) but not one joke was finished! Not that we were so worried about winning. The issue here was that the biggest cash prize heard off for mad ads till now was on offer. This time again a hall packed with people (with most being our own college mad ads teams) and fierce competition with 5 different teams from BMS! Celebrations broke out even before results were announced, we knew which college team had won! When the results were actually announced, WE(LMT) HAD WON! LMT registered its first victory after 13 performances. Many would argue that it took rather long to get there, but when we got there we got there big. We had beaten the senior teams and the best part was they were happy about it.(They forgot there was 5k!:P) This happened once more at their last show (exactly where they had taken over from their senior team) in the most convincing fashion. The tradition of mad ads in BMSCE would now continue in us!!. The torch had been very gracefully passed on. What we didn't know was that this torch needed very highly charged up batteries to keep it glowing! Then we had NO IDEA wat hit us! No Idea btw was the name of our rival mad ads team from our own college. They also claimed to have charged up batteries, so they wanted to carry the torch for a short while. So they did and how! Thrice in a row they beat us. This was so frustrating that Mr Drunken Manager finally took things in his own hands(with some help from Mr Hello Daddy off course!!) and came up with a joke which henceforth became one of the main reasons for our victories. I had to drink 4 red bulls and crack a really bad joke on it finally to actually come back against NO IDEA! Once that happened, NO IDEA was out of ideas and later nobody had any idea about where they had disappeared. At the same time, building up was the legendary rivalry between us and Complete Chaos, one that would be remembered for years to come. For 2 years there were only 2 teams which controlled all mad ads events all over the city. The rest of the teams got so fed up that it would be just the 2 of us in the competition and the other teams would stand as audience and applaud. Our biggest high ever though came in the absence of all our competitors. This time we ventured so far that no other teams were ready to follow us so far(It was around 25kms from college :P). There were only 2 teams in the competition and I don't remember which college the other team was from(anybody?)! Firstly the organisers are pissed with the fact that we were late, and then over that we didn't have a team briefing before entering the stage so none of us really knew wat we were going to do. Mr Dancer Narrator had all to do by himself this time.Rest of us just had to pick up the cue from where ever he picks it up. Somehow we managed a decent show and the crowd laughed continuously throughout the performance. What happened after the performance is something I am not sure I can put it in words. The whole crowd(about 300 people) stood up from their seats and gave us a STANDING OVATION! First time ever and this felt on top of the world, we didn't care if we had spent more on petrol than the cash prize they gave. This is a day I will never be able to forget, when the audience stood up and continued clapping for 5 mins without a stop and we stood there on stage not knowing wat to do!!! Though we told everyone that we beat 6 teams into it, the truth was that we were so happy to just be there on that day in front of that audience that we did not care a dash to wat the results were(we knew we had won!...:P). From the biggest highs to the biggest lows, the team believed in the lie that we were good and now they even started to lie that we were the best ever, so the temptation to believe that was too high, so we kept believing in it!!! :D. At the end of the third year, we had conquered most of the fests we went to. We had hoisted our Flag(though we never really had a flag....we had a baniyan once...and some sports wear:P) in all corners of the city. Then came the dreadful last year, which reminds me this one has gone toooo long already!!! Last phase will be covered in the last episode along with the stories of us getting disqualified, till then keep guessing who's who?? and do keep those comments pouring with your views and some more interesting things which I might have missed! Until next time, keep laughing :-)
