Rendezvous is the annual cultureal fest of IIT Delhi. It is known to be one of the grandest fests across Northern India colleges and has a footfall running into lakhs.I was fortunate to attend all days of this mega extravaganza with my friends - Sandy, BVS, VJ and Jeetu (from Videokaun). There were more than 70 events spread over 4 days (24th Sept 2009 to 27th Sept 2009), however due to some limitations like working hours and inability to create multiple physical entities of our bodies at a given instant of time, we weren’t able to attend all the events.
Our dedication and efforts made our presence possible for the mega event on each day. Details:
Day 1 - 24th September 2009Event – SPECTRUM (inter college dance competition)
Value of our efforts – Our friend, Jeetu (from Videokaun) is doing a non-B.Tech course from IIT D. He loves taking risks and has therefore daring risk management skills, which got us all inside the OAT (open air theater). Kudos to him! Dance competition was among 9 colleges - IIT D, IIT K, NIEC (Delhi), Murthal (Haryana), LSR (Delhi) and more. Winner – NIEC which had 9/11 and third umpiring as there themes were the clear winners. Crowd appreciated the pelvic thrusts by the girls and the foolish movements by the boys. Choreography was highly innovative and movements of limbs were in sync. Henceforth they were the clear winners and took 56k as the 1st prize.
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Day 2 – 25th September 2009Event – KALIEDOSCOPE (fashion parade)
Competition was among 7 colleges – IIT D, Insitute of Home Economics (Delhi), PEC (Chandigarh), Hansraj (DU, Delhi), Hindu (DU, Delhi), NIFT (Delhi), Lady Irwin (DU, Delhi), etc.
Value of our efforts – This talented event always attracts more specialized talent than needed. Sandy had this intuition and arranged for our entry to heaven. Kudos to him!
Fashion when seen live looks like fashion. We saw gender of both denomination dressed in various geometrical shapes, sizes, curves and cuts. NIFT team dressed themselves in materials which can be recycled (innovative). Surprise package was Institute of Home Economics, which had an all girls team dressed up in circus style (nicely compiled). Also, with the help of IITians, we were able to draw a very important conclusion i.e. size zero is not charming (matter of concern). The event ended without any wardrobe malfunction.
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Day 3 – 26th September 2009Event – SAAZ (instrumental music)
Value of efforts – This event saw low representation from our side. BVS decided to sleep after the event which happened the day before. VJ skipped the event to get a piece of paper, which looked liked a post-graduation degree. Jeetu (from Videokaun) was attending his non-B.Tech course at IIT D. However, I decided to utilize my free time by getting some peace and went to see the performances by the twin duo of Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan with appropriate persons (again thanks to Sandy for arrangement). The duo took time to get into form and after a while started juggalbandi sessions. Towards the end they played songs of Bengali and Assamese genre. One of Bengali songs they played was ‘Ekala chalo’, which was a pleasant surprise for me.
Day 4 – 27th September 2009
Event – DHOOM (feat. a totally manic lady, rock band – ‘Faridkot’, Mohit Chauhan)
Value of our efforts – All of us made ourselves available for this mega event. All of us even skipped our evening sleep for this. Reason - Mohit Chauhan (former lead singer of band ‘Silk Route’). After our successful entry, we were terrorized by a girl who wanted to ruin the evening by her voice. She was distorting famous bollywood songs by her voice and was doing her best in that. Even after the best efforts from crowd to boo her down, she was adamant to perform. The more crowd shouted, the louder she shouted. They call themselves ‘Groove Adda’; beware of this for the sake of your welfare!
Next in line was Faridkot, a band which got fame from channel [V]’s ‘Launchpad’. They brought energy onto the terrorizied faces of crowd. They are a mature band and look experienced and professional than their precedessor. Band lead vocals is a sardarji who has a great long standing voice…you will like it. Do listen to ‘Laila’ and ‘Mahi Ve’.
Finally was the turn of Mohit Chauhan. He has emerged as a hit-number-giving-singer in the world of popular Indian music with some fabulous songs to his name. He sings effortlessly and has a gifted voice best suited of blues music. The OAT at IIT was packed to see him perform. The footfall must be around 10 000 plus. His performance included his old ones to new ones.
Namely- Dosti, Dama Dum Mast Kalander, Boodein, Dooba Dooba, Khoon Chala (from RDB), Sabse Peeche Hum Khade (from Let’s Enjoy), Tum Se Hi (from Jab We Met), Dooriyan (from Love Aajkal), Masakali (from Dilli6), Pheli Baar Mohabbat (from Kaminey), etc. Spectacular stuff!!yEpPiE
Last weekend was a bit off for me, but this whole weekend went fabulously and it proved as an inevitable evidence for one my philosophies. Life is like a sine curve. You have a low point, you got to have a high point. You touch the lowest point, you will touch the highest too. You see rock bottom, you will see the tip of iceberg. You see dusk, you will see dawn. You sleep sad, you wake happy.
That’s the ‘Law of Equilibrium’*, which brings life to stability.
* Same law prevails in Chemistry.
Cheers and Keep Rocking
AG
