Dishit Salat Vadodara files for Guiness World Records for Mahendi at Kalanagari
Vadodara lad attempts to break world mehndi record! TNN Jul 21, 2013, 03.30AM IST VADODARA: Why should girls have all the fun? A city lad DeeshitSalat is all geared up to register his name in both the Guinness World Records and Limca Book of Records with world's longest mehndi marathon . The existing world record is held by an Ahmedabad girl Dipti Desai, who in 2011 had set a record of applying mehndi on 140 hands (70 people) in 24 hours 45 minutes. With a dream to break this record, Salat started from Saturday morning and is attempting to set a record of applying mehndi on the hands of 200 to 300 women in 28 hours at a stretch. As Salat (24) started his marathon bid for the record at Kalyan Prasad Hall near Mandvi from 8am onwards, there was a curious queue of women wanting to get their hands decorated with the herbal mehndi , which came free during the ongoing Gauri Vrat. "Although the rule book allows me to have a breather of five mi