Kuruksastra..... few debates and a walk out

Kuruksastra is over. I can proudly say that this time i saw it. For last three years its something i only heard from other people, even though i attended its previous versions but its not more than an hour if you sum up the time.
All in all it was good to see whole college in such a pace with everyone satisfying their intellectual hunger through drama, debate, dance and many many other things. It creates those rare moments when the year recognition is lost and all comes on same floor to compete something which almost impossible to judge.
It was Shankar Mahadevan who eclipsed everything in the last evening. The impeccable voice, the aura and the charm which gripped the whole college for about 2 hours and i could still feel his grip on this college by seeing status messages on gtalk, orkut and facebook. I choose sitting in Ctv rather going in and dancing and i really enjoyed, one can imagine the atmosphere in stands.. As far as i can see it was simply Awesome!!!!
The thing i felt is he did not sung those for which he is recognized and admired. To make the mood instead of singing "jhoom barabar" he must have sung "Koi kahe" from DCH. No song from Lakshya and no from his album "Nine", atleast he should have sing "Noor E Khuda". I felt satisfied twice, one at "Maa" and other at "Breathless"... Overall its quiet a time and the feeling of real Shankar Mahadevan standing in front and singing is good, atleast for someone like me who never saw any showbiz personality ever... else than myself :)

Maximum time of these 3 days are passed in NMV auditorium watching Hindi Lits.. Pride of this college.. They win everywhere... If somewhere they did not won means they did not took part, its as simple as that...
The confidence in organizing committee was something, i m sure, every participant was scared of. Vishnupal led the team like Eric Cantona would have led the Manchester United years ago, attitude of the best player+captain could be seen in the confidence of each and every team mate...
If football commentrator Andy Gray would have been there... He must have said.... Take a Bow son !!!! Take a Bow !!!!!
The hard work of organizers was visible in the quizzes they prepared. Especially Antakshari, i think it was solely made by Amitabh and it was Something....
I was wondering how confident participants were and virtually giving lessons to someone like me who never ever even dared to climb up to that stage.
Boys and girls from all the years and from many colleges...

Apart from all this few things which took my attention...
First is the debate.. The confidence of participants was extremely good, i wonder how no one fainted or even a single one wavering. But.... there was a certain lack of preparation, i bet there was... Everyone was talking about something they guess should be rather than some solid points...
There was a certain lack of reasoning and every one was busy showing there ability of argument, useless argument..
Like in finals, topic was about Reality shows.. Many came and blabbered lines of Dinkar and Nirala... "Jo bhara nahi hai bhaawon se......" and all those stuff which has nothing to do with Reality shows. Leave alone reality show, i dont think Nirala or Bachchan ever said anything even on Show business. Instead you should have prepared why are reality shows so hit and why or why not they are affecting society as whole. Anyhow if you want to quote someone, tell us what Stephen Spielberg or Coppola or Prahlad Kakkar said on effect of stars on us.. Quote something relevant rather shouting bullshit....
I dont know exactly what India lost in creation of Pakistan but i can tell what India gained and thats the endless number of debates.. Its Pakistan everywhere, even the partition of states is somewhere related to Pakistan.... One was saying if we want to fight Naxalites we must take guns from all the policemen and send them barehanded... Upon asking to elaborate this he himself do not know what to say. One took partition of State as his topic and end up speaking for 5 minutes on corruption, no relevance at all. If some one someday show the videotape to that guy i dont know will he speak again in his life ???
At last i came to conclusion that there must be Pakistan's hand in my bad performance in class, because its the root cause of each and every problem in India...

One more thing, i walked out of the auditorium last day, many asked me the reason. I feel its my moral responsibility to explain the reason of that. It was around 2.30 afternoon and auditorium was more than full but anyhow one junior(mithilesh) arranged a seat for me. It was last event of the whole setup and was Drama. Many teams came to perform in front of that overcapacity crowd and no one really cared which year you are and every team was given the warm reception, only Shankar Mahadevan got better than that. Everyone was yelling and clapping on each and every action of teams. Then came a team which presented something out of the world, yes i mean it. Such a bad performance that no one could understand what are they doing. One could only make out the actors they were imitating, i bet my life that no one in that auditorium could sense the story or anything. Still we all clapped and for nearly 20 minutes. Only one word for the performance... Pathetic... Anyhow the play ended and crowd still not booed anyone but it was obvious everyone was laughing.. Few shouted "once more". Few like me were shaking there head and trying find a way to react. But before me, organizers reacted, they came in middle of audi and started shouting on audience that who wants "once more" and how many of you ever appeared on stage. They even grabbed few 2nd years and took them out of audi. Why to show your seniority when you claim a fare game ? None of the guy said a vulgar or abusive words, if they can clap cant they boo ?? Who will tell how to react ??? I agree that organizers have good stage persona, how can they claim no other can perform anything on stage ???? If a junior performer should be excused, why cant a junior spectator ???? You as a judge did not showed mercy by awarding them extra points, why should we as an audience excuse them by suppressing something so instinctive ???? How can someone ask for mercy after a bad performance ???? If someone is so scared of repercussion, why the hell are they coming to perform ???? And giving them mercy on the basis of their 1st year is insulting them a bit more than booing. I know few of that team personally but bad is bad.... I dont want to be part of something where you are allowed to give only one reaction... No one shouted on bad debate, because its not the manner of the event but in drama if you can scream in applause you can shout in denial too...
At last after coming out i met to a creature named Ankit Singh, who was also part of a play half an hour before.. We talked on this and first line he said is, "Go and do something on stage you will feel how difficult it is"... You are so sure that i m an asshole who never saw or stood on stage and you are the first one after Girish Karnad to do so... Now this is what i call bloody mediocrity.. You are so sure that your job is over just by appearing on stage and you need not to bother about your performance and every one else than you never dared to walk on that sacred stage... So how the hell can you criticize Salman Khan or Ashish Nehra because i m sure you neither made a movie nor you ever played International cricket.. So mister, you are not winner just because you tried, You need to win something in order to be a winner.....

Pic Courtsey : 1st from sanjeet's orkut album...
2nd from google (tell me exactly so i could mention)