A hundred hours of song, dance to aerobics and sport saw the event “Shanthavaibhav – Art for Humanity”, organised earlier in the city, enter the record books as the longest variety show held.
Between February 6 and 10, Ranjini Kalakendra had organised the Guinness World Record attempt at Freedom Park. More than 42 organisations and thousands of individuals – representing a wide spectrum of arts and performance sports – took to the stage in the coordinated attempt. Eventually, the 100 hours and 49 minutes – or, stretching out to four days – of continuous performances comfortably trumped the earlier record of 21 hour and 52 minutes set in New York.
The official citation of the Guinness World Records says: “During the 5 days and 4 nights a total of 4,156 artists joined the record attempt. The participants covered more than 100 varieties of 16 main art disciplines for a total of 751 performances.” The Guinness certificate was handed out to Ranjini Kalakendra recently.
A release said the performances featured a variety of vocal music concerts, from Indian classical forms to pop music and beat boxing; dance performances that captured the diversity of performances from across the country as well as hip-hop and free-style dances; Circus acts, theatre performances; skating techniques; painting and craft demonstrations; instrumental fusions; yoga demonstrations; Kung-fu; Mangic shows among others.
