There are performers and event managers who think they are the best under the Sun and that everyone else languishes afar.
There are performers and event managers who believe they are never at their best; and that they have more to learn from every performance.
The man who belongs to the latter and generous almost to a fault is Viraf Todywalla, our Talent of the Fortnight.
Be it a Bollywood Show that attracts a couple of thousand people, a Political Party Dinner which caters to just 200 persons or an Awards Night Dinner which brings together 500 top personalities including the country’s leadership, Viraf and his boys and girls at V4U Entertainments Limited would invest the same measure of devotion and dedication to make the event memorable.
Those who know him say that Viraf is among the easiest to deal with in the entertainment industry, and those who know him really well say that he is so soft that even a child would misuse his magnanimity.
“I believe in people and their goodness and would like to offer the best possible entertainment to make them happy,” he says.
That is the problem.
But Viraf is a professional to the core; he has worked with some of the best and otherwise in this country.
His passion for music, dance and show business encouraged him to start a dance group in May 2004 and a few months later, walked away with the First Prize at the Diwali Dance Competition held in Auckland.
That was just the beginning. His own production, called, ‘V4U Dhoom Machaade Nite’ (2005) became so popular that ‘Dhoom 2’ and ‘Dhoom 3’ followed over the next two years. If he were a businessman with a profit motive, it would have become an annual feature.
He choreographed ‘A Thousand Apologies,’ a highly popular TV3 series two years ago and ‘Pump Up the Mandali,’ a Fijian Hindi film last year.
‘The Car Clerance Centre Star of New Zealand’ Contest held last year was another feather in his colourful cap.
The New Year began well for Viraf, as he performed with his group at the Vikram Kumar-Pooja Chitgopeker Wedding last month (See Indian Newslink, January 15, 2010)–Venkat Raman
