A boy at a shop selling colour in Jalpaiguri on Thursday. Picture by Biplab Basak

Siliguri, March 20: Extended weekend has provided a fair amount of fillip to Holi celebrations tomorrow and the day after. Several organisations have lined up colourful programmes to welcome the festival with fervour.

A Holi Aayi Re night is being held at Devils, Siliguri’s only nightclub and disco. Specially selected songs for the occasion will be played in various forms, said DJ Keerat.

“For example, the famous Rang Barse song from Silsila will be laser-beamed out in four forms — techno, electro, house and hip-hop,” Keerat said. All types of Holi songs will be played in between the popular numbers, he said.

That’s not all. Bhang-based cocktails will also be available from 7.30pm onward in Siliguri. Indraneel, the brain behind the bar, said “special cocktails like bhang jama de, banarasi thandai and piyo aur jiyo would be concocted for the Holi revellers”.

On the other side of the spectrum, Basundhara, a welfare organisation educating underprivileged village children, is holding a Basanta Utsav near Salbari on the outskirts of Siliguri.

The programme will start at 9.30am, and would include songs, folk dances, recitations and discussions.

Basundhara’s founder president Sujit Raha said about 100 people would perform in the programme which would start with the planting of a sapling by litterateur Asru Sikdar.

Radio High 92.7 FM, on its part, will organise a live-on-air programme “Holi Ke Rang Radio High Fm Ke Sang” at Baghajatin Park tomorrow to mark the occasion.