Calcutta, Sept. 21 :    Calcutta, Sept. 21:  8.10 pm... The 'Venga, Venga' cry was just gaining momentum when the whirr of helicopter blades filled the September evening air. And the crowd of 8,000 and more at the Salt Lake stadium helipad grounds on Friday knew the moment had finally arrived. No helicopter was in sight, but the Vengaboys were in the house... A deafening roar went up. As a deep baritone announced that 'party people across the world were uniting', Calcutta decided it could not be left behind. The Dutch quartet bounded on stage with Ho Ho Vengaboys and everyone was on their feet. The warm-up with Shankar Saini belting out bhangra numbers had got them going, but this is what they were waiting for. Teens, tweens, girls, boys, sari-clad women, fathers with their children got busy 'shakin' the room' with the 'world's greatest party animals'. From the first track, Kim, Roy, Yorick and Denice flowed straight into the energetic hit, Boom boom boom. The crowd outside the enclosure gates was swelling as fast as the one inside. The fans who couldn't get in were dancing as happily, (some atop a truck), as their luckier counterparts, front and centre. The slower third track, Sha la la, came to an end, and the dancing stars took a pause to address their fans in Calcutta. The 'absolutely amazing' crowd had already proved they were 'definitely party people', declared the bubbly Kim. 'We love you, India' they proclaimed, as perfectly co-ordinated as their dance routines, to shrieks galore. All the screaming in the afternoon was coming from girls of Rani Birla. That's where the Dutch band had paid a visit after the Shakespeare Sarani college had won a Pepsi promotion to get a taste of the pop stars on campus. The girls' high-pitch scream on seeing their 'favourite band' up close coaxed the quartet into a two-minute jig to Brazil. 'Vengaboys is really the coolest band around,' enthused Ambareen and Fatima, Class XI students, on their way to pick up tickets for the concert later in the evening. While the only Indian word the band has picked up may be 'kama sutra', the down-to-earth foursome has definitely taken a look around town. Instead of the tourist staples, Roy and Kim headed for shopper's stops like Swabhumi and Dakshinapan to buy furniture on Thursday, while Denice and Yorick headed for a round of golf on the Tolly greens. The Vengaboys attracted quite a bit of attention on the streets, too. 'We were stuck in traffic, when a car full of girls managed to spot us through the tinted glass and started waving. So we rolled down the windows to say 'hi', and they were so kicked they started shrieking that they were all coming to our concert,' smiled Kim, happy at the chance to 'make someone's day'. This was the fourth show, after appearances at Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Lucknow, and the squad is moving on to Hyderabad next. The band is 'very disappointed' that the Guwahati show has been cancelled, and even more upset their itinerary has been cut short. Pakistan has been struck off the list, following the US attacks. But after being the 'highest-selling international artistes in the India', they hope to come back for more. The reason for this marathon tour of the smaller cities: 'India is a huge country, and we want to reach out to as many people as possible.' And they just might, in future, take up the Bollywood brigade's half-serious film and video offers.