GBM Report and QnA

Hey Everyone,

Please find attached the report for cultural activities conducted during the academic year. We would request you to please read the report. We feel that this academic year has been fruitful for cultural activities with many good things happening in the institute and great performances at venues outside. There are other avenues where we may have fallen short, though not for lack of hard work. We would request you to contribute and provide feedback to ensure continuous improvement.

It is also our responsibility to provide the explanations that were asked of us at GBM, to the entire community, many of whom were not present at the GBM and are entitled to the answers their representative sought. There are two files attached with this mail. The ppt is a report of the work done by the Council over the past year, and the document contains an explanation for various points of my manifesto, and other questions received during the GBM.

We admit that while the manifesto has been used as a strong guiding tool, some decisions were taken in real time with opinions of the entire council. This was often to accommodate the new developments that were accounted for after the time the manifesto was initially made. To make up for the deficit, new initiatives were undertaken and past ventures consolidated that weren’t a part of the original manifesto.

Do accept our apologies for the delay in putting the report up.
Additionally, it is our humble request that you send your valuable feedback directly to the  respective secretaries and myself.

Report

GBM_QnA

Best Regards,
—
Harsh Jhaveri
General Secretary, Cultural Affairs 2010-11
IIT Bombay.


February Cult Calendar

Chaos cracked!

Here is the entire list of winners at Chaos 2011.

FA
T-shirt painting:

Mayur and Utkarsh (both freshies)     3rd

Rangoli: 

Akvil and Kalpak (Freshie)          3rd

 

Mehendi:

Mayur (Freshie)         1st
Utkarsh (Freshie)      3rd

Face Painting:

AkViL                         3rd

Junkyard Wars

jim/ vihar/ vikas/ shubham  (sophie junta)           3rd

Photography: 5 out of 6 positions have been taken by us.(Awesome Maxxx, i m infy happy 🙂 )

Weave a Tell :

Advait & Vikas :     1st

Akvil                :      2nd

Face off:

Vihar                      2nd

Espirit d chaos:

Manu Sahe :          1st

Ameek singh          2nd

DANCE : 

Choreo :- 2nd

DRAMATICS :

Street Play (Halla Bol) :- 2nd

Broadway Theatre :- 1st

MUSIC 

Saaz:(hindi band competition)
Shaadarsh 1st

Raaga: (solo vocals)
Anna 2nd

Taal (solo instrumental)
Anna and Uttam tied at 2nd

LITERARY ARTS:

Potpourri 

1st Vipul Chaudhary, Harsh Maheshwari, Animesh Jayant

2nd Harsh Jhaveri, Ritika Goyal, Siddharth Bhandari

Cluedo

2nd Mehul Jain, Siddharth Bhandari, Meghna Sreenivasan

General Quiz

3rd Mukund Madhav, Ishan Shrivastava, Nidhi Shanbhag

Great Ahmedabad Race

1st Ritika Goyal and Harsh Jhaveri

Congratulations to all the winners!

January Cult Calendar

Teachers Day Quiz

Hey Everyone!

On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, an Inter-Department Teacher’s day quiz
is organized by the institute which will be conducted on Sunday(5th
September), 10 am at IRCC (Institute Auditorium).

The quiz will have 5 rounds. Each team will comprise of 2 teachers
and 1 student. The composition can change every round. That means that 5
different students can be part of the team (1 for each round) and
similarly more than 2 teachers from each department can also participate
in the quiz. The final teams aren’t pre-decided and students can
join in tomorrow itself. Some rounds will be on institute knowledge – places, people,
etc. Also, there will be a general entertainment round and other general
quizzing rounds.

Be there to represent and cheer your department!

Freshiezza

Hey Everyone,

Institute Cultural Council brings you Freshiezza, the Inter Hostel Freshie
Cultural festival. Freshiezza is a platform where each of the Freshie
hostels will be competing against each other for the overall Freshiezza
cultural trophy.
This year there will be 6 teams competing for the overall trophy, namely
H1, H2, H3, H4, H10 and PG Freshers. All the events will be held at the
Students Activity Centre (SAC). Freshiezza will be kicked off with the
Treasure Hunt which starts from OAT at 9 PM tonite.

Phase 1 – Sept 3rd to Sept 5th
Phase 2 – Sept 25th and Sept 26th

Please see schedule on flexes in freshie hostels.

Cult Calendar – September

The photograph was selected from the Photocalendar competition held last semester and was submitted by Prashant Sachdeva.

Bollywood Night – The Night that was…

Bollywood Night

The first institute social event of the year! And a massive turnout it was!

General opinion was that it was a very well-set event. Machaxxx by Ishan Shrivastava and Nidhi!

People found the elims very good. The rounds in the finals were awesome – the variations in the rounds made it interesting.

The Rounds in the Finals were:

1 )Bollywood Controversies Round: The Round was relating Bollwood Controversies and Amul Ads.

2) Antakshari Round: There were 2 Antakshari rounds, one of them which had betting incorporated. This was enjoyed by a lot of participants.

3) Dance Round: This round had dance videos shown on the screen, and the participants had to dance to them. The most entertaining round(maybe not for the participants!)

4)DumbC: The Bollywood Night would have been incomplete without a Dumb Charades round, and it did not disappoint.

Great End to a Great Night!

The winners were Siddha, Vinod and Siddharth. They won vouchers worth Rs.1500 from toubebas.com, a T-shirt design startup of IIT alumni. Bhavna, Gouri, Eeshan and Archana came second. So overall the event was a great success and an awesome start to the social events.

Report by Abhishek Padmanabhan and Rushabh Shah

Institute Comedy Central

Hey Everyone!

We are pleased to announce the commencement of Institute Comedy Central. Comedy Central, as the name suggests, will be a comedy show comprised of comedy videos made by insti junta. Around 3-4 videos will be fused to make one show every 15 days which will be showcased at the immediately next movie screening/cultural event held in LT. Along with the video making, Institute Comedy Central will also be extended to comic strip making. The best entry apart from winning prizes in both English and Hindi will be printed in Insight and Aawaaz respectively in their next editions.

The theme for the first show/comic strip is Movie Spoof. Entries can range from a fundoo explanation for Inception to spoofing the great old heroes like Shahrukh, Amitabh or Gabbar Singh. You may even have super heroes like Shaktiman, Batman or even Harry Potter as your victims. All you need to do is to choose a situation and make it funny with the involvement of some known characters or through establishing the resemblance to some movie/tv series scene. The main criteria for selection of the video/comic strip would be creativity and the comic element and thus no specific knowledge of filmmaking is essential.

The best 2 entries for the 1^st episode/strip will win gift vouchers worth INR 1000. Also, top 10 entries in both the competitions shall be awarded treats by respective hostel cult cos.

All videos will be uploaded on the Youtube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/silverscreeniitb

All comic strips will be shared on DC.

You can submit your videos/comic strip till 10^th September to the address iitbsilverscreen@gmail.com . If you have problems sending the file or for any further guidance/help/inquiry, please contact :

Rahul Shankar Bhardwaj Institute Film And Media Secretary

shankar.rahi@gmail.com. 9769071577

Bollywood Night

Dear Juntax,

The Institute Cultural Council invites all Maas, Babujis, Vijays, Rahuls and Simrans to the first Institute Social Event of the year – Bollywood Night. It will be a mixed bag event. The elims will be an audio-visual quiz which will test your movie knowledge, and the finals will have multiple rounds including Antakshari, Dumb Charades, Scene enactment etc. There will be something for everyone, and it will definitely be a lot of fun

The event is being set by Ishan Shrivastava and Nidhi Shanbhag. The winning teams will get prizes worth INR 1500/- sponsored by www.toubebas.com, a T-design startup by ex-IITians.

Venue: SOM Well

Time: 8.30 p.m

Teams of 3

Date: Monday, 30.08.10

Hope to see you there!