Sunday, June 16, 2013

ARY Family Festival brings Karachi to life

Pakistan News & Features Services

The ARY Family Festival 2013 held at the Karachi Expo Centre on June 14, 15 and 16 provided thrill, excitement and recreation to the thousands of Karachiites who caused traffics jams on the busy University Road due to their large attendance.

The enthusiastic crowds who came to witness the festival on all three days brought smiles on the faces of the organizers who had made wonderful arrangements to facilitate the visitors. 

As expected there was bigger turnouts in the evenings. The charm of meeting favourite cooking experts and hosts like Sara Riaz, Saadat Siddique, Tahira Mateen, Samina Jalil, Maedha Rahat Ali, Arif Dawood, Afzal Nizami and Farhana Owais attracted far too many people and there were long queues in the evenings as people lined up for security checks at different points.

The discipline of the crowd was exemplary as the families were happy and willing to get themselves scanned patiently.

Although the halls remained packed to capacity and there was also rush at the food stalls the visitors moved around freely.


The presence of the celebrities like Humayun Saeed and Javed Shaikh kept the audience on their feet. 

The atmosphere inside the halls of the vast Karachi Expo Centre remained electric as persons of all age-groups were witnessed enjoying the moment. The settings were just perfect to keep them engaged.

The ARY Family Festival lived to the promise of bringing loads of fun filled activies for the whole family who were thrilled at the opportunity to meet their favourite actors, hosts, VJs and chefs besides grooving to the music with live performances and feasting at the many food stalls. The families had the choice of going on a shopping spree as quite a few known brands had set up their stalls who were offering discounts to rope in larger number of customers.

There was an incentive to show off skills in a cooking contest while children enjoyed festivities with games, rides, and hangout with their favourite cartoon characters. 

The youngsters in particular, with cameras in their cellphones, were observed availing the opportunity of clicking some memorable photographs on the occasion.

The participants of the ARY Family Festival 2013 described the three-day event as a success story.

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