There are as many people waiting for their calls to get connected as those on the waiting list for telephone connection. This was the joke making the rounds in the past and before technology improved a lot, said BSNL general manager P. Nagaraju aptly at a function on Thursday evening when Nanduri Prabhakar completed his 30 hours and 10 minutes non-stop rendering of jokes in his bid to enter the Limca Book of Records.Incidentally Mr. Prabhakar is working for BSNL and this might have stopped him cracking jokes on his own organisation, quipped some one in the audience.
Mr. Nagaraju, film actor "Kallu" Chidambaram, stage personality Kasi Viswanadham, writer and film actor Raavi Kondala Rao and others warmly congratulated Mr. Prabhakar.
Mr. Prabhakar, secretary of the Visakha Humour Club, broke the record of 25 hours set by Sankara Narayana of Hyderabad in 2004. His record has to be ratified by the Limca Book of Records. All the details of the show, certified by prominent personalities of the city will be sent to the publishers. A beaming Prabhakar said he wants to make an attempt enter the Guinness Book of Records.
"The Guinness Book has not yet opened a category for a feat like this but they will examine my application and frame some rules if they are to accept my entry" he said.
Mr. Prabhakar decided to break the Hyderabad man's record and started his efforts in the right earnest said club president Raavi Gopikrishna. He practiced for an hour every day for the last two months by speaking aloud.
A bank of jokes is available as the club members can remember all the jokes heard during the monthly programme held since 2004. The record-breaking attempt was named Hasya Dhaaramrutam and was organised to raise funds for Sishu Vikas, a school run for slum children.
This also met the condition of Limca Book of Records that donations collected during a record-breaking attempt must go to an organisation like Sishu Vikas.
Mr. Prabhakar was allowed a break of 10 minutes for every hour. He took only liquid food during the feat. Many volunteered to record Prabhakar's feat for the record book. Retired chief general manager of BSNL J. Ramachandra Rao was there when Prabhakar started the attempt at 12.10 p.m. on Wednesday. Kallu Chidambaram, Kasi Viswanadham, SBI employees' union leader J.P. Sharma, "F.M. Babai" and others recorded the feat.
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