8 Reasons why you should go for the Nh7 Weekender Festival

It’s October and the festival season is just around the corner and by that I don’t mean Dushehra or Diwali, I mean the NH7 Weekender Festival series. Yes, they are back this year – meaner, bigger and this time with four cities, adding Kolkata to their ‘Cities conquered by NH7’ list. Now, I am pretty sure that if you are reading this article, you are aware of what the festival is about, but for those who just stumbled upon this page when they were searching for nude pictures of Scarlett Johansson or were looking for pictures of cute dogs in funny costumes, let me summarize it for you. What if I say that NH7 Weekender festival is for music lovers as porn is for guys and shopping for chicks! Ok, I know I shouldn’t be exaggerating so much, so I’ll give you 8 reasons why NH7 Weekender is so awesome (Porn and shopping still rule BTW \m/)

Stage Hopping is good for health – The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of all the NH7s that I have been to is the number of stages and the wacky lineup on those stages. It’s like when you are extremely hungry and you get all the delicious dishes but you don’t know which one to eat first. Running from one stage to another to catch your favourite artist is what NH7 weekender is all about. Oh yes, running also means keeping healthy! Testifying this, I heard some guy, the other day, tell his friend “You know what dude, last year at NH7 Pune I lost 30 Kgs only because I was running from one stage to another, I know it doesn’t show now coz I hogged at McD later but yea dude it felt awesome”. The fat boy who went slim says it all.

Place for metal-folk-EDM-fusion-heads – In this era of music where categorizing music lovers into genres becomes more and more challenging, NH7 takes, the already complicated scene, to another level by putting all kinds of weird ass genres known to mankind under one roof. It’s basically serving you a multi-cuisine buffet and letting you decide what you want to eat. Talking about eating, stage hopping will get you thin! don’t worry J

Star struck – If you think Rahul Ram and Raghu Dixit are bigger celebrities than Shahrukh Khan or Hrithik Roshan then this is the place for you. Don’t get surprised to see Vir Das standing next to you attending a Tough on Tobacco gig, Rahul Ram getting his hair done or Monica Dogra (Shair + Func) getting sloshed at the bar.
P.S. Pictures speak louder than words.

Festivificaion of Happiness– It ain’t called the happiest festival for nothing. The moment you enter the festival arena, you are surrounded by such happy vibes with crazily dressed people, smiling faces and exquisitely designed stages. The whole arena is like a beautifully painted picture contributed by different artists from all walks of life. The best thing I saw last year at Bangalore was the NH7 Kabootar, which was basically a tempo painted psychedelically to act as a messenger for the artists.

Meeting of like minds – Now who doesn’t like a random conversation with a random stranger at the bar, at the gig or for that matter in the same shared auto! Finding like minded folks is what we strive for and that is exactly what we get in abundance at NH7.

The Red Bull tour bus – This is one thing I am looking forward to this year. Red bull has come up with an innovative concept of a tour bus which will open into an already set up stage. The tour bus will be parked in all the four NH7s and it will be fun to see bands perform on the roof of a bus.

Drink from a bucket – This is one thing I personally like a lot, the Bacardi Bucket, my prized possession. It just gives you those Hic…Hic!!

Check out the video of how the NH7 Kabootar happened, notice the festival arena while you are at it: