Felicity is the cultural annual festival of IIIT hyderabad. Threads, the technical festival, runs along with it. This year's celebration was fantastic backed up by quite sincere hard work. I was not there in most places, but whatever I saw I enjoyed. I wish to review it, there will be some honest opinions... good and bad, please dont hate me :)
Day 1: Though events were on full heat in other areas, e.g. Kalakshetra, Zombie Zone, etc etc. Day 1 had a dry stage for the most of it. Indian Ocean's performance was fun but running a little boring. Didn't attend War of DJs, because of boredom, I hope it was good.
Day 2: Seeing that along with Indian Ocean on day1, Sledge is also coming along on day 2, the current 3rd years proved that they have taken felicity to a next level. You got Sledge and AWESOME bands from all over Hyderabad for a rock competition. OMG!!! Fking awesome.
IIIT Band: A nice start, Female vocalist did well (for Cranberries' song), she could have sung more songs, some Evanasense may be? Male singers need to work hard (Insomnia used to choose songs with less vocal input so that the good Guitar talent shines, pretty clever). Blood Brother's was quite nicely sung, good work. Our Malaysian FESs did good job too, nice.
Mosh Pit issues: I dont really know what happened when moshing started over (I am guilty that I started it) while Sledge's performance, but I guess the organizers took the matter a bit too serious. Dont get me wrong, but the guys were doing the moshing in a controlled way, in the middle, a circular pit, exactly the way it should be done. It was violent, yes, but thats the way it is (I was not a part of it later coz those dude were too big to mosh with, I was just in the perimeter). No one was getting hurt in the surrounding, just visually scared I guess. Anyway, alls well that ends well. The rock night was amazing.
Day 3: The western dances were nice as always. Best part was that most things were not that late as I expected seeing all previous felicities. Contribution from college CBIT, Vasvi and Osmania University was nil which is not good (notified by Parry), they have been an important crowd previously, dont know why they didn't show up this time. ICFAI and NIFT people as always were a good part in the celebration.
Day 3 nite: Mr. and Miss felicity was enjoying, the audience was great (hehe, I was a part of it of cors). The participants on the male side were weak I would say, confidence seemed less from their side although final judging was perfect. The female's were much more better in terms of right attitude and confidence. The results of Miss felicity seemed odd, which doesn't matter though, since for the audience the good organization was more important.
Om Shanti Om: The closing dance by the famous faces was nicely done. It was a highly intelligent work done by the Choreographer. The way people were emerging on stage matched the way its in the movie. The similarity excites the crowd a lot. Nice work.
Overall this year's celebration was wonderful and faithfully well executed. It was clearly visible that the organization was good. Decorating the campus was a clever idea, truly, it brought out people living under rocks. Some newspaper coverage would have been nice. Food and stuff was ok, there was nothing wrong, costs were not proposterous. Website design, a killer video and forum's idea was good.
Nicely done ug3. Bravo.
Day 1: Though events were on full heat in other areas, e.g. Kalakshetra, Zombie Zone, etc etc. Day 1 had a dry stage for the most of it. Indian Ocean's performance was fun but running a little boring. Didn't attend War of DJs, because of boredom, I hope it was good.
Day 2: Seeing that along with Indian Ocean on day1, Sledge is also coming along on day 2, the current 3rd years proved that they have taken felicity to a next level. You got Sledge and AWESOME bands from all over Hyderabad for a rock competition. OMG!!! Fking awesome.
IIIT Band: A nice start, Female vocalist did well (for Cranberries' song), she could have sung more songs, some Evanasense may be? Male singers need to work hard (Insomnia used to choose songs with less vocal input so that the good Guitar talent shines, pretty clever). Blood Brother's was quite nicely sung, good work. Our Malaysian FESs did good job too, nice.
Mosh Pit issues: I dont really know what happened when moshing started over (I am guilty that I started it) while Sledge's performance, but I guess the organizers took the matter a bit too serious. Dont get me wrong, but the guys were doing the moshing in a controlled way, in the middle, a circular pit, exactly the way it should be done. It was violent, yes, but thats the way it is (I was not a part of it later coz those dude were too big to mosh with, I was just in the perimeter). No one was getting hurt in the surrounding, just visually scared I guess. Anyway, alls well that ends well. The rock night was amazing.
Day 3: The western dances were nice as always. Best part was that most things were not that late as I expected seeing all previous felicities. Contribution from college CBIT, Vasvi and Osmania University was nil which is not good (notified by Parry), they have been an important crowd previously, dont know why they didn't show up this time. ICFAI and NIFT people as always were a good part in the celebration.
Day 3 nite: Mr. and Miss felicity was enjoying, the audience was great (hehe, I was a part of it of cors). The participants on the male side were weak I would say, confidence seemed less from their side although final judging was perfect. The female's were much more better in terms of right attitude and confidence. The results of Miss felicity seemed odd, which doesn't matter though, since for the audience the good organization was more important.
Om Shanti Om: The closing dance by the famous faces was nicely done. It was a highly intelligent work done by the Choreographer. The way people were emerging on stage matched the way its in the movie. The similarity excites the crowd a lot. Nice work.
Overall this year's celebration was wonderful and faithfully well executed. It was clearly visible that the organization was good. Decorating the campus was a clever idea, truly, it brought out people living under rocks. Some newspaper coverage would have been nice. Food and stuff was ok, there was nothing wrong, costs were not proposterous. Website design, a killer video and forum's idea was good.
Nicely done ug3. Bravo.
good to hear that.
ReplyDeletewish i too was there.
@smr - we missed u too dude.
ReplyDelete@ug3 : U guys did a great job. Some places could have done with a bit of an improvement. UG2 should take note of the points below for next year :
1 ) EMCEES - Master of ceremonies (announcers) need to be way more prepared. U simply *can not* go in front of thousand plus crowd with zero or sub zero preparation. Sorry guys, u were disappointing.
2 ) AUDIENCE - Audience were unruly and i was a part of it but the organisers should take a note of this. It is going to be even more difficult in the years to come. So DO something abt it.
3 ) INDIAN OCEAN - they sucked. Money could have been spent well by calling some good fusion artistes to complement the rock night the next day. Ask shiben more abt it.
4 ) WATER - Don't be evil. Put some water containers at the ground. Sell it if you want. Not everyone is from IIIT and even IIITians can't be expected to go to hostels to drink water.
I am sure there are more points. But again overall it was a very good job and so in won't list more.
@pkj -
ReplyDeleteI think Indian Ocean were superb. I can boast about witnessing a decent number of fusion performances and IO pwned all! But then, it is a matter of taste. Isn't it ? I heard there were some issues with the IO PR manager. May be UG3 folks can clarify this.
@ug3
Seriously, mineral water? Don't be evil, guys! Anyhoo, Felicity '08 was one of the best in my 4 years here, if not the best.
And the crowd did rock man. Don't contain this. Never. Let the suave go to some place else :)
why din't u write about the dance with did during MnM and also about raising Pati's chair :P
ReplyDelete@Shiben. The reason we tried to control moshing was 'cos of the issues between a few outsiders.
ReplyDeleteWe got a ot of newspaper coverage.. Around 28 articles compared to seven last year.
Thanks!
@pkj. we tried to prepare well in advance for the compering part... But didnt succeed I guess..
As for Indian Ocean, most people enjoyed the show.
Thanks everyone, for being a part of the show! Hope we'll have an even better Felicity the next time around.
cool...looks like it was a lot of fun !! how was the gaming situation ??
ReplyDelete@smr: we missed u man, u shud hav been here :)
ReplyDelete@pkj: Agree on those points
@Sultan: yeah well depends on matter of taste, but still they shud hav noted a varied crowd and played varied things
@Kulbir: rofl man, it was so much fun :D
@Karan: hey good news! can some1 put up a post wid all felicity coverage?
@tipo: dint go there man, it was in another building and my laziness prevailed :)
@Shiben. Yep, we'll try and get a hold :)
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