Sitting in the comfort of my room at 9 am in the monday morning I just have one thought: Never keep your B-slot free if you really wanna attend A. Walking more than a km at 8 am for one single class is not my cup of tea. Happy teaching ma'am. May your class never be empty. Infact it can't be, thanks to those who have to walk only a 100 metres...
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Rendezvous ended yesterday... really liked it in my first year, but watching the same events for the third time didn't seem to be a fantastic idea. The news of people breaking the barriers for rock show was hard to believe... but then, some people had their first year this time only :)
Still I can't swallow the popularity of Rock Show. Hitherto unheard of bands performing well below their own mediocrity... doesn't seem to be a good package. Still it goes on to be a big hit every year, giving more voices to "We organise the biggest college festival in north india", all because of the thronging DU crowds. What attracts DU people in the Show? ohh.. may be its all because one-third of their undergrads is first year... more than ours one-forth. My poor sense of humor, I know.
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So yesterday evening I had two choices at the crossroads near juice shop.. and thanx to a friend I chose the Professionals' Play. So our group split into two with all others heading for the Rock show. Infact they didn't have to move any further.. the queue had itself reached them. And we two reached the sem hall.. the play had started.
Mirza Ghalib reborn in 21st century.. no age deductions applied! What a great comedy it was! Here was a show that could hold the hall house-full with a concept our generation is blamed not to be able to relate to. With crowds showing their willingness to connect to the life and the times of Ghalib, claps showed a negligible time-gap.
Mirza Ghalib is reborn in his very own delhi after some recently dead shayar tells him in jahannum that if he were born on earth in these times he would have been popular in his lifetime itself. So Mirza lands up at ISBT.. and the comedy starts unfolding. Later on takes a room on rent.. room-partener suggests to approach DU for becoming the chairman of urdu wing. The chanceller says, " Yes, you are Ghalib.. definitely you are Ghalib.. but sorry, you are not PhD. You are not Dr. Asadullah Khan Ghalib. We can't appoint you even as a lecturer."
Ghalib's visits to tawayaf's place allowed the director to bring in Ms. Sheravat, but the main concept of the play didn't stray. When he is told that he can be given Bharat-ratna if he meets president, he talks to himself, "Zaroor koi umda kism ki sharab hoti hogi". Translaters were taken a dig at.. by highlighting the splendour of his original work in comparison to the non-sense versions in Hindi and Punjabi. In the end, he finds himself in Ritu-Beri-designed bermudas!
It's difficult to write down everything here. Ghalib's was the best stage performance I've ever seen. In the end when the director introduced the cast, I was like,"This 20-something played that role!!" Great.
When returned back near the juice shop, we saw the crowds still rocking, with their moods still red. It would take us years to cross over those four wavelenghs. Mediocrity can't catch up with Mood Indigo!
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The comic show on Ghalib reminded me of Lage raho Munnabhai, which I saw quite sometime back but didn't write about. Certainly comedy is the best way to talk values with today's generation. There is no point in writing about the movie now that everybody has watched it (Just watch it if you haven't, yet). I just didn't want this movie to not get even a mention on my blog. Felt the same sentiment which I read on a blog,"Kaash, mera bhi Circuit jaisa koi dost hota!".. mesmerised by superb natural acting by this guy... seems like soon I'd forget his real name.. he is nothing but Circuit!
Kudos to the director too. No one ever presented Gandhian philosophy in a better way!
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Rendezvous ended yesterday... really liked it in my first year, but watching the same events for the third time didn't seem to be a fantastic idea. The news of people breaking the barriers for rock show was hard to believe... but then, some people had their first year this time only :)
Still I can't swallow the popularity of Rock Show. Hitherto unheard of bands performing well below their own mediocrity... doesn't seem to be a good package. Still it goes on to be a big hit every year, giving more voices to "We organise the biggest college festival in north india", all because of the thronging DU crowds. What attracts DU people in the Show? ohh.. may be its all because one-third of their undergrads is first year... more than ours one-forth. My poor sense of humor, I know.
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So yesterday evening I had two choices at the crossroads near juice shop.. and thanx to a friend I chose the Professionals' Play. So our group split into two with all others heading for the Rock show. Infact they didn't have to move any further.. the queue had itself reached them. And we two reached the sem hall.. the play had started.
Mirza Ghalib reborn in 21st century.. no age deductions applied! What a great comedy it was! Here was a show that could hold the hall house-full with a concept our generation is blamed not to be able to relate to. With crowds showing their willingness to connect to the life and the times of Ghalib, claps showed a negligible time-gap.
Mirza Ghalib is reborn in his very own delhi after some recently dead shayar tells him in jahannum that if he were born on earth in these times he would have been popular in his lifetime itself. So Mirza lands up at ISBT.. and the comedy starts unfolding. Later on takes a room on rent.. room-partener suggests to approach DU for becoming the chairman of urdu wing. The chanceller says, " Yes, you are Ghalib.. definitely you are Ghalib.. but sorry, you are not PhD. You are not Dr. Asadullah Khan Ghalib. We can't appoint you even as a lecturer."
Ghalib's visits to tawayaf's place allowed the director to bring in Ms. Sheravat, but the main concept of the play didn't stray. When he is told that he can be given Bharat-ratna if he meets president, he talks to himself, "Zaroor koi umda kism ki sharab hoti hogi". Translaters were taken a dig at.. by highlighting the splendour of his original work in comparison to the non-sense versions in Hindi and Punjabi. In the end, he finds himself in Ritu-Beri-designed bermudas!
It's difficult to write down everything here. Ghalib's was the best stage performance I've ever seen. In the end when the director introduced the cast, I was like,"This 20-something played that role!!" Great.
When returned back near the juice shop, we saw the crowds still rocking, with their moods still red. It would take us years to cross over those four wavelenghs. Mediocrity can't catch up with Mood Indigo!
""""""
The comic show on Ghalib reminded me of Lage raho Munnabhai, which I saw quite sometime back but didn't write about. Certainly comedy is the best way to talk values with today's generation. There is no point in writing about the movie now that everybody has watched it (Just watch it if you haven't, yet). I just didn't want this movie to not get even a mention on my blog. Felt the same sentiment which I read on a blog,"Kaash, mera bhi Circuit jaisa koi dost hota!".. mesmerised by superb natural acting by this guy... seems like soon I'd forget his real name.. he is nothing but Circuit!
Kudos to the director too. No one ever presented Gandhian philosophy in a better way!
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KK was good in Pronite... better than Indian Oceans, Tantriks, Silk Routes of recent years. This is what I heard from others. I didn't watch this show due to some personal reasons. After all, rendezvous can't be the most important thing in anybody's life. All those things some other time...
Another event at rendezvous- Thitholi.. only Surender Sharma was able to hold crowds, though his comic takes on husband-wife relationships were not the first-time-heard kinda things for many. He asked to shut down the video recording.. either he thinks he is very popular or he fears that the recordings if telecast won't allow him to throw the same jokes again and again. Mumtaaz's romantic ghazal (with not much of depth) was also able to attract some attention, may be it was for herself only!
Another event at rendezvous- Thitholi.. only Surender Sharma was able to hold crowds, though his comic takes on husband-wife relationships were not the first-time-heard kinda things for many. He asked to shut down the video recording.. either he thinks he is very popular or he fears that the recordings if telecast won't allow him to throw the same jokes again and again. Mumtaaz's romantic ghazal (with not much of depth) was also able to attract some attention, may be it was for herself only!
Group Dance was on the usual patterns. IITians' hands always clap for LSR, whether or not they deserve it. After the worst performance amongst all colleges in the first round, LSR managed to save their face in the second round, and stood second ( how come? didn't they consider the first round. SRCC deserved better). Some IET was first and the third place was obviously reserved! No, sorry, this time the IITD's permormance was good enough to prevent the eyebrows rising!
LSR also got the award for the overall best college for the fest. Get over man.. you won't see Her again!
5 comments:
ahh..i missed rendezvous!
But I never 'see' it..only am IN it...woprking smhow...so this was a bit too much rest
anyway, nice post....
but
1. It is more than 100 meters. Measure it someday. Still it's not important. Laziness diesnt measure. Half the girls and half the guys would miss a class at 8am after rendezvous, and esp if B is free. Just that half the guys is a number big enough to notice.
2.Have you been to Mood-I?
I have, and it's better mainly because
a) They have much more money
and b)they have far more things to do and concerts to attend in mumbai..so the crowds dont break anything.
c)they have the sense to print as many tickets as they want so that they can be distributed, never mind if u get space to enter with it or not. IITD frustrates ppl because passes are out of rint too soon.
But it's even badly organised than ours, spread over the huge iitb campus. Only, the crowds of MU are better than DU..much cooler.
3.Proplay is always good. Am so sad i misse it
:(
4. LRM is really good, esp sm parts are briliiant.
5.have attended KK once..he's quite good...nice nice.
6. never put ur braiin on event results at rendezvous, even if OCCASSIONALLY they do get them right!
1. hmm.. settle for 200 if u r into distance vs displacement talk. Then ours is 2km. Summers r not yet over in India, miss :P Neways laziness doesn't measure - agreed.
2. No, I haven't. I was just pointing at its popularity and scale.
And the crowds of MU are better than DU..much hotter :P
3. And u won't even find proplay on LAN.. they are no LSR !
6. I dont think there was any such OCCASSION in last 3 years! so won't put my brain on it next time.
the post made me go back to my college days in DU when fests and all were so important in one's life!!
sigh...those were the days!!
enjoy it while it lasts bud...after a while u wont have he time or the energy to make that effort!
The Ghalib play must've been hilarious. thanks for sharing. possibly an idea for a movie there, as you said...
You must have been present in the hindi play competition in Rendezvous as well. Some of them were really very good.
So much's been discussed about gandhigiri, munnabhai and all that that the best thing that can be done now is to remain silent.
Ghalib must have been good.
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