Hello friends
I am Nidhi Dave, a student of the Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. This blog is a response to my thinking Activity given by professor Dr. Dilip Barad sir. This blog is to share my thinking abilities for the Youth festival 2022.
After two years Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University organised a Youth Festival on 18/19/20/21 September 2022, hosted by Takshila Institute. As we were not able to do it in the previous two years due to Covid Pandemic.
✴️ The Name of Youth Festival was given this time:
"AMRUT RANG- YUVA URJA MAHOTSAV 2022"
🌟Kalayatra:
Kalayatra on 18th September at 4:30 afternoon time from the water tank of Bhavnagar to Amphy theatre. Kalayatra started at 4:45 pm and then everyone did registration. In kalayatra many colleges participated and they represent their college's culture and history related themes like women empowerment, tribal caste, thoughts of Gandhi, thoughts of Sardar patel, successful womans in history, business skills like - stitching, parlour, dancing, singing, painting etc and kind of professions. It was a great experience to represent our department as we were using posters of social media icons and English literature. As it was Sunday, there was a traffic issue and the local public had to suffer for it. In Kala Yatra every team follow a theme prepared by them. In Kala Yatra also the best three team declared as a winner.
- 1, Shri Swami sahjanand college of commerce and management, Bhavnagar
- 2, Sardar Patel group of colleges, Bhavnagar
- 3, K.R. Doshi group of colleges, Bhavnagar and Takshashila Science and commerce College, Bhavnagar
🌟Opening Ceremony:
On 19th September it opened at 12:00 o'clock. Jitu Bhai Vaghani our education minister, Mayor of the Bhavnagar Kirtiben Danidhariya, Bharti ben Shiyal, youngest IPS officer Safin Hasan, and Gujarati film director Abhishek Jain and other political party members were there and other University members also there.
🔅YOUTH FESTIVAL DAY 1:
The major competitions of the day were Mimicry competition, Bhajan competition, instant drawing competition, Quiz competition (preliminary), Poetry competition, Folk dance competition, Maim competition, Collage competition etc .
🌟Mimicry:
After the opening, the first event was Mimicry at Atal auditorium. The name of this stage is 'Shri VinodBhai Amlani Natyamanch' in evening time. Judges of this event were - Jagdishsingh, Vipul vala and Diwakar Bhai Upadhyay.
- Start with college code 3 presented one man who go to director and film story he was creating many animals voice.
- Code 6 representing village and evening time his sentence about women was very problematic.
- 7 and 8 are not presented so 13 number present their event Bhanubha and Kshatriya and small child birthday event.
- 15 code Rockstar Ravi Dream scene and train,shaadi All three are the same in voice of animals, birds, train and other things.
🔆Loknutya-Garba:
- Murliben Meghani Munche
Judge: Nithin Dave, Amul Bhai Parmar, Manisha ben Bhatt
On the same day there is a Lok Nrutya event in which many colleges take part. In this - Garba is there in which they have to perform more than 8 minutes. It's too hard as the beat was too fast. Some groups were doing both the things together as dancing and singing which became too difficult. But it was a great event. There were more than 8 groups.
🌟Mime:
Judge: Kamalbhai, Devangiben bhatt, Jagjeet bhai.
🔅Mime- 1 no. 3
First mine stats with college code no 3, Importance of outdoor games... Mobile games addiction sucide. Indians winning in the Olympics games. Outdoor games winning over mobile.
🔅Mime, 2 no.6,
Sahid, military life, used to go in the past, soldier life, living with family and working for the nation, giving them salute on death, 75th year of azadi, role of soldiers in azadi.
🔅Mime 3 no. 7,
Reversed whole scene., good expression and body gestures, shahid last burial, surgical strike, use real incident like URI, Pulava.
🔅Mime 4 no. 8:
No use of red lipstick, animals killing as a habit or hobbies, religious practices, forgetting religion and violence, technology eating humans, humans losing control of technology, robots.
🔅Mime 5 no.13,
Began with circus, lion also, controlling lion. Other animals if they are uncontrollable then they kill the animals.
🔅Mime No. 15
Child growing, going school, being top, parents giving him mobile, transgender boy into girl, not being accepted by family and frnds, being alienated, getting in transgender community accept him , doing sucide, transgender is also a sex not other.
🌟Mono Acting :
Judge: Jagjeet bhai, Vipul vala, Diwakarbhai upadhyay.
Rules: 5 maximum they give extra 15 second
🔅Act 1 code 3:
About Actor and his acting Ravan, Romeo, Hamirsinh, Zaverchand Meghani, Sadan hasan manto, Gandhi actor and his accident with electric shock and paralazed his body.
🔅Act 2 code 4:
Unborn girl child and her suffering in Indian society.
🔅Act 3 code:
Gauri and Jasiyo :
Childhood friends and they have an age gap. After some time he was going to the City for higher education he came to the village and Gauri ate poison and she died.
🔅Code 18:
Yogesh shukla written Aatma no Avaj
🔅Code 19:
Difference in Hindu Muslim and nowdays blood shade in India because of religion, Rape, spot in rapist cloth and simple human washing by Nirma Powder.
🔅Code 35:
Rangmanch to Bollywood:
This mono acting represents our department. Rangmanch to Bollywood - Her journey and talk with Rangmunch kabuliwala to shakuntala Shantu Rangili to Bollywood.
🔅Code 43:
Human with so many refreness Gandhi, Socretish, Krishna, Jallianwala Bagh and so many.
This all the best performance of mimcry.
✴️YOUTH FESTIVAL DAY 2:
Day 2 events like:
- Samuh Geet (Western) (Amphitheatre)
- Ekanki (Atal Auditorium)
- Shastriy Gayan (Old Court Hall)
- Poster making (External Department)
- Parshan Manch Final (English Department)
- Western Song (solo) (Amphitheatre)
- Lok Geet (Old Court Hall)
- Clay Modeling (External Department)
- Mono Acting (Atal Auditorium)
- Shastriy Vadan (Tal Vadhy) (Old Court Hall)
- Mehndi (External Department)
- Nibandh (English Department)
- Shastriy Nritya (Atal Auditorium)
- Tatkal Photography (External Department)
- Short Film (English Department)
- Lok Vadhy Vrund (Amphitheatre)
- Skit (Atal Auditorium)
- Shastriy Vadan (Svar Vadhy) (Old Court Hall)
- Cartooning (External Department)
- Duha - Chhand (Amphitheatre)
2.Major themes in dramatic events like One Act Play (एकांकी), Skit (लघु नाटक), Mime (मूक अभिनय), Mono-acting (एक पात्रीय अभिनय).
- One Act Play ( Ekanki) Vinod bhai Amlani Natyamanch.
- On 20th September there is A Ekanki- event in morning time at 10:00 o'clock.
🌟Asifa: AEK Paheli:
There were first play name : Asifa - aek paheli - in which from the history till today suffering of women Sita , Draupadi, Holika , Shurpanakha, Story of Acid attack and then life of girl, story of girl who fall in love with someone but family didn't able to accept situation, story of gang rape this all are found in one play which was about 25 minutes. In this play I found themes like feminism, Racism, Class conflict etc...
🌟Adhuru Chitra:
This is story about Royal Family love story and Panna is mistress of king and king give his all empire to his nephew vikram kumar prince good painter heroin Panna her background was different she found in prostitute house by king and one day both are boating Panna and Vikram found them with ear other and prince make her painting but it was half without any discussion king thinking like they have affair with each other shivratri celebration king making domestic violence against Panna died after death she give latter to kumar he was read letter mad after this Tragedy. The play starts with the madness of prince flashback with kumar.
🌟Hu Pasalo Chu:
Indu kuva written: Hu pasalo chu
Hu Pasalo Chu play is modern tragic comedy. A kind of love story one simple man and princess light humor tragedy also on that he was simple human for love he became changed himself as a God at the End he realized human is better than God.
Classic Tragedy with Gujarati Drama and traditional representation.
🌟Aai khani chopat:
Start with man(meraman) who died and one woman (Jaan Bai) sitting near him people challenge protagonist for revenge to his brother murdered and his was continiously play chopat her father tell her to merry is brother in law (manhur) she recall her memories with his husband beautiful scene they create too woman one after merry waiting for husband and before his dead waiting his husband she was talking with her self by too character she marry with her brother in law (Diyar vatu) but after merriage she getting news that his husband mudrered by his brother so she give poison milk to his brother in law he died. Flashback of murder and fight was very nice main protagonist woman dialogue was amazing.
🌟Artificial Intelligence:
🌟Digdarshka:
Fifth play is Digdarshka about the life of a local drama maker or the boy who comes from a rural area and wants to become a big Actor. In this story there were only two characters and the theme of their drama is passion, Revenge and loneliness in the life of both.
So all the performances were so well performed. Themes of those plays were History, Feminism, Horror, Anger, Love , Passion, Revenge, Loneliness, Sorrow, Use of power, Love for art etc..
✴️SKIT:
🌟Ravan Dahan:
1.Ravan dahan- ravan in 21st century, ola- pushpa, traffic police, politicians in election, inflation criticism, media bikav, godi media, after election situation, politician ni behrai, aam aadmi ki sthiti, corona modi with vaccine, Russia Ukraine war, women situation as inferior, female Foetus, ravan asking about Ram Rajya. corona, thali bajo, diva jalao, vaccine andhvishwas, surat grishma case, rabiya case, more and more case of Rape, Good expression not terms of acting.
🌟Technology:
2.Technology and village life too generation conflict one son was in Army and one daughter who have dream to go in army but funny act and another young child modi Diya jalav Thali bhajao Niraj chopda sanitesar vaccsion surat Girshma and Jainil story,rape in corona who are going Desh and woman died with child good ending happy ending move towards Education.
🌟Pan ki dukan:
3.Pan ni dukan politics Moghavari main topic casteism, religion, skill less in politics Gangubai, Pushpa human rights popular reels Donation in Education and also job and government job.
🌟Why?:
4.Bhaarash 21th century human, woman and son is more important in Indian society, Transgender destroyed humanity politics in Gundaraj moghvari and DJ sound pollution child with baby setar loose humanity and loose motherhood why? Gum hui insaniyat, satire on election gunda, DJ taklif, satire of society... Surrogate child, babysitter, mummy wearing jeans and going to a parlor with children in child care, insaniyat ko khatam kiya. Baras manayi. Bite hue kal ko tilanjali di. Absence of father satire of mother only.
✴️Short film:-
Seven colleges participated in the Short Film.
- Magic Box
- Zamku
- Fake it till you make it
- Bhavnagar
- Swatantra Sangram
✴️YOUTH FESTIVAL DAY 3:-
Here is a list of third day Competitionwith places:-
- Samuh Geet (Bhartiy) (Amphitheatre)
- Vaktrutv (Elocution) (Old Court Hall)
- Rangoli (External Department)
- Installation (External Department)
- Debate (New Court Hall)
On last day, before or after valedictory, all art events like cartooning, painting, collage, poster making, clay-modelling, installation will be open for public display. You can study themes, satire, didacticism, aestheticism in all these artistic expressions.
There was many art events in Youth Festival like Cartooning, Clay modeling, Painting, Collage making, Poster Making, Rangoli, Installation etc. All the participants did very good work. In poster making, and cartooning mainly students made their creations on politics and current society. They satire on various political issues, pollutions, social barriers and rigid society etc. In clay - Modelling most of the students made their model of 'Guru - Shishya' (Student - Teacher) because topics are given to them. Also in rangoli competition students made rangoli by using various elements instead of Colour like flowers, Cod, Grain, embroideries etc. Topics of all the competitions were already given so students moulded their creativity in a way. Here are some glims of it.
🌟Rangoli:
🌟Poster making:
🌟Spot painting:
🌟Pepar Collage:
🌟Photography:
🌟Mehendi:
🌟Clay Modelling:
🌟Installation Event:
🌟Closing ceremony:
The Closing Ceremony of the Youth Festival brings too much joy among students as well as institutions. It declares the outcome of participants’ hard work. Before the result announcement, the formal ceremony was there. On the closing Dr. Chetan Trivedi, Vice Chancellor of Bhaktkavi Narsinh Mehta University, RJ Akash and Singer Ishani Dave were present. After the speech some students and teachers shared their experience of the youth festival. As it was organised by Takshila Institute of science and commerce. After that they facilitate all the students who got Third, Second and First rank in various competitions.
Swami Sahajanand College of Commerce and Management won the General Championship of the MKBU Youth Festival 2022. Sardar Patel Institute has become First Runners Up.
✴️Department of English
Students of the Department of English win many competitions and get more than fourteen prizes in various events like , elocution, mono acting , Kavya pathan , Rangoli, essay writing, short film, Clay modelling, western singing, Debate etc...
Some glimpses of winning moments of department of English students
Thank you
