Cultural Night.. blah

Disclaimer: The author is no expert in dancing and hence his comments on the topic mentioned above are as good as George Bush’s on Sachin’s batting, although he has made none. Some of the comments are made out of sarcasm as well and the reader is advised not to take any offence.

March 14^th. It was a beautiful night with clear skies and almost a full moon. In all there were 147 stars. Yes, I counted them all! This act of mine, in itself speaks volumes about what happened on this uneventful night. I was so darn bored that I in fact started counting the stars.

To begin with, we had some kinda concert from a certain Mr Ghosh who is a Hindustani classical singer. I, not being a fan of this genre of music, decided to go to the library. Yeah, the library :( And was back just in time for the dance competitions.

Classical solo: I was shocked at the kind of dismal fare that was being dished out. How in the name of holy god, did the house captains agree to have the participants dance like that in the classical category? No graceful moves, only jhatkas.. that too in the classical category. Of course, the only contestant who actually did perform a classical dance, won the event, irrespective of whether she was good or bad.

Classical group: The first group looked promising but they lost their way in the middle. But I felt they deserved the first prize instead of Vayu (I’m in Vayu) who put up a farce act in the name of folk dance. Their rendition of Chinnamma Chilakkamma hardly looked folk-like.

Western Solo: The winner danced to Main Aisa.. from Lakshya. The steps were not executed to perfection but he seemed to be the best when compared to the others.. or so the judges thought. Aditya’s song was quite catchy but he turned up looking like a blind man because of the “goggle effect” (not google). Amidst shouts of “errabalu” echoing all around the open air theatre, he gave an “ok” performance. All the other performances were extremely ordinary and believe me, I am being generous here. The lesser I talk about em, the better.

Western Group: The Aakash house lead did perform some breathtaking steps, but the Agni house entry looked more professional. The Prithvi group’s performance surprisingly, was also quite good with some catchy and mass numbers. No comments on the Vayu house’s performance, although I heard they practiced quite a lot. Kudos to them.

Stand up comic(s): This was followed by a very humorous version of “My Heart will go on” performed by 2 ug1 guys. And in my view, that was the best performance of the evening. Quite hilarious, I must say.

Insomnia: So our college band did perform, but only to a handful of the audience who stayed back to watch them perform. Their rendition of Cant Stop was quite good, but some background chorus would have made it better. The White Rabbit song was also sung well. But then, I decided to take a break and play CS. And the rest of da night was spent in playing CS :D.

Overall I appreciate the steps taken by the cultural council to involve us (layman) in all cultural activities. But I must say, I was not impressed by the show put up by the participants. But we can always improve, which was the main motive behind holding such competitions. Hopefully we are treated to a better performance during the amalgam on March 25th. Peace.
And the quote of the day (for the cultural council :D)

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

- Francis of Assisi

P.S (Approved by ASR.. with the ASR-9002 certificate) Changed the song from comfortably numb to this one. The recent SE presentations have been quite comical with roleplays where a certain Mr. A overacted a lot. But it was one of those presentations, when you as part of the audience feel awkward for the presenters. In the last class, the MS guy looked helpless, sleepy and was waiting for the presentations to finish.

P.S2: I have not YET cleaned my room. Although I did clear some of the junk. And India DID win the 2nd test match, but the 3rd one is slowly slipping out of their hands.