The newly formed entertainment company, PAS Promotions presented a Display of Colours (Rangeela Dikhawa) last month at Red House on High Street, Georgetown.

The event showed that the PAS team of Phoolkumarie Coopsammy, Andrea McAdam and Salef Ali, have bright fashion ideas.

Patrons were treated to a display of Indian fashions from the exclusive Lynette Mangar Collection.

Indian snacks were served and included Mithais, Laddus, Samosas and Pakoras.

The models were no strangers.

The faces included Miss Guyana Universe Mia Rahaman, Miss West Indies, Asha Pieters, and Miss Guyana World contestants Ryiela Gaffar, Danielle McIntyre and Candida Telles.

On the male row were Channel Six reporter, Adrian Ally, and McAdam's husband, Paul, himself a former television news reporter and now Administrative Officer at Mazaruni Granite.

With chairs and tables on the healthy green lawns of Red House, the event started right on time.

An invocational dance started off the programme. The dancer failed to impress.

With the theme song from Mohabbatein in the background, Ryiela Gaffar emerged first with a black contemporary sari. It was contemporary, because it did not require the elaborate wrappings of the traditional sari.

Mia's sari was an antique piece and she displayed it beautifully. It was of heavy silk with multi-coloured embroidery threads. This type of sari is a rarity nowadays.

Danielle was stunning in the faded multi-coloured sari that she wore. As in India, where saris are wrapped differently, the end piece flowed to the front and not to the back as is usually done.

The male models were in Kurtas and Pajamas.

The children were also on parade and proved to be a real treat for the audience as they performed with much ease and dedication.

For the contemporary segment, the music was a blend of Indian and French. Mia wore the common bell pants with a close fitting top with straps.

Casual and cotton shalwars were featured as these can be worn on any occasion in Guyana.

Adrian wore the popular denim Kurta of Utar Pradesh in India.

The wedding segment was perhaps the best part of the afternoon.

As Babla's Wedding Beats tuned up, a delightful young lady emerged with a basket and showered the stage lazily with flower petals. Two others soon followed.

Flowers and rice are symbolic of prosperity and so it is thought that by performing this act, the newly weds would enjoy lifelong bliss.

Mia and Paul stepped out. She wore a dark red and gold Lengha and he was attired in a similar coloured Kurta.

The same ritual was followed for the next two models, but things soon changed.

Adrian and Ryiela, dressed in clothing similar to those worn earlier by Paul and Mia, but with colours of bronze and beige, emerged from under a bridal canopy. Four children, two boys and two girls, were responsible for holding up the sari that was tied to its four ends. The wind proved a challenge, but they came through.

The bridal canopy was meant to be a substitute for the palaquin that is common of Indian weddings, though not locally.

Adrian and Ryiela then stepped to the end of the catwalk, where he lifted the bit of the Lengha piece that served as a veil.

All the models then took to the stage for a grand finale to the racy beats of Indian Punjabi singer Daler Mendhi.

The audience could have done without the pitiful last dance item.

PAS promotions has been formed to promote local entertainment.

Proceeds of all its shows will go towards charitable organisations in Guyana.

Donations from Rangeela Dikhawa will go towards the Help and Shelter Crisis Centre and the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre.

The next PAS Promotions presentation will be a grand fashion show of local designers under the name `Made in Guyana’.