Hyderabad Gears Up for Friendship Day celebrations
Hyderabad: Hyderabad city, known for bonds of friends, is geared up for celebrations of Friendship Day as the first Sunday of August arrives. The celebrations started from Friday onwards with bunches of friends hanging out to have a pleasant time at their favourite places. Several mentioned friendship cannot be restricted to one particular day and they only take this day as an opportunity to catch up with friends in this busy life.
Looking at the scenario, city clubs, eateries and pubs have come up with unique friendship themes and offers, to where bigger groups are attracted.
A bunch of friends, most of them professionals like Vikram Pooserla, a senior advocate, Gagan Kohli, vice-chairman of GNIT, Dr Umesh and Nagraj Karpan have planned the friendship meet-up at the Sailing Club, Secunderabad, one them explained. “We recall all the good old times and these meets will keep us more enthusiastic towards life,” he said.
Mamadi Kishan of a bistro at Jubilee Hills said, “As the demand for celebrating friendship is so high, we have planned for three days, for the guests who booked from their friends' group and we are offering the performance by Shivam Chowhan and another live band Acchraj Singh from Chandigarh to enhance the experience. We have offered a new Sunday brunch, featuring live music from afternoon till evening, friends can gather, eat and drink with good music.”
Looking at the teens and young groups of friends, for the celebrations at a bistro, the place is being decorated with the colours of friendship yellow and white. There will be a "Friendship Special Menu”, curated for this special occasion, said Gurpreet Bagga, managing director. “We have already informed our regular clients and the response is pretty good,” he added .