26-27-28 October
My Experience of Youth Festival
It was always challenging task for all the colleges to perform well in youth festival, as the level of youth is always high. One needs to do full practise with lots of hard work to be a top ranker.
In youth festival, students get chance to show their various talent in various field. From poster making to One act play everywhere, student came with full enthusiasm and show their unique skill. There were number of events organised on big platform.
This time Taxila institute of Science and Commerce College, hosted the Youth Festival.
Let us begin with the glimpse of the events which I have attended honestly:-
1. Mimicry
On 26 October I have seen several Mimicries by students from various colleges. There were total 13 Mimicries. Some of them are mindblowing. A true Mimicry must includes multiple voices. How much a person was capable of copying multiple voices with different tones and moods. The students are successful in copying the voice of animals. Some are very much repeating:-
i) Cuckoo's voice,
ii) Peacock's voice
Some voices of vehicles also:-
iii) Auto-rickshaw
iv) Train
v) Helicopter
Some of various things
vi) Opening door
vii) A Swing
Normally the mimic of opening door creates horrifying effect, as it seems like someone is opening haunted house. Some students are doing so much real copy that it rise fear in our mind of some place which was haunted since so many years.
2. Mono-acting
I have seen three performance of mono acting. All three are different in concept. I will describe two of them:-
1. About a girl who is abused by male
This mono act really make goose bump. The pitch of girl is very high and harsh, her voice is enough to rise fear in the minds of people. She criticised the male dominant society which always one and another way pressurised girl or female to do something which she didn't want.
She has used several abusive words which are not welcomed by the crowd. But this shows the intellectual level, as whether the crowd taking each and every thing on their own self or think of society. Because each and every act should refer to society not to individual. No one is targeting any individual there.
But we cannot see glimpse of various characters in the performance of girl. In whole act she remains in one tone and mood, and of one character only.
However in the other mono-acting we can see different characters played by one single girl, whether it is an old lady, a small girl child or mature etc. These type of variation differentiate one artist from other.
2. About a Lady Hawker and her sufferings
The other Mono-acting is full of all types of emotions, sad, happy, anger etc. It is about a Lady hawker. She has performed very well. She was able to make audience cry from her live performance.
- Rising, climax and falling
She begins with comedy and then suddenly take her acting to high pitch of emotion and with her cry gives climax. First she talked with all the customers in very light and humorous mood and sells each and every things. But Suddenly when one customers ask her about her daughter then she changed her tone to serious. She slower down her voice and then started crying. Her crying brings climax, we struck that what wrong done with her. Then she gave explanation about the condition of her daughter, whose in laws sales her somewhere.
-Catharsis
When she started crying loud then we got struck by loud emotions but when she explains that she makes her daughter free from the customers, to whom the in Laws of her daughter sales her, there I feel catharsis.
In a way we get all emotions in this single 5 minute Mono-acting.
3. One act play
One act play takes 30 minutes to complete. But this 30 minutes shows all sort of things, it is almost like a short film, for example "Mahotu" which is directed by Vijaygiri Bava.
I have watched only one drama performance which covers many things into it. Its title is "Papan Vchche Dariyo"
i) Significant title
The title itself is symbolic. It signifies something emotional and the whole drama is also based on emotional theme.
ii) Use of Flashback technique
The main character was an old man who narrates the whole story in flashback technique. He narrates each and every incident of his life.
iii) Climax
When the narrator (old man) narrating the story to his own son whom he has lost before so many years, but did not recognise him,that scene brings climax into the play. His son then reveals his identity and suddenly tears fall down from the face of his father. That was really very heart touching scene.
iv) Catharsis
There was one rape scene into the play which was not performed fully in front stage but only we heard voices from backstage. This was very significant scene and it brings goose bumps. We feel catharsis and when the daughter in law commit suicide that makes audience cry. The play was successful to make audience attentive.
v) Use of music
Director of the play has used various music which holds on the interest of public and audience cannot get bored in middle. That was the technique of the master.
vi) Tragic play
The play is tragic and it brings all the elements of tragedy. It justifies Aristotelian definition of tragedy that is:-
"The imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude, complete in itself"
The role of daughter in law is complete in itself and brings tragic elements. Her life itself is tragic.
4. Skit
I have watched one skit which was full of comedy and also gives basic message of cleanliness, and the need of Toilet.
i) Size of character
It was common archetype that to bring comedy fatty or too much healthy characters are used. Same thing done in this short skit of 10 minute. One healthy character becomes the object of laugh only by his entry into the skit.
This kind of mindset we can find in "Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chasma" a comedy serial in which there is one healthy character Dr. Hathi.
ii) Current plans and programmes of government
As the skit deals with the current issues of society and in a way it promotes the message of Our PM Narendra Modi of cleanliness. It shows the political correctness of the people that how they think according to the views of government only and didn't look on the other side, the problem which the poor class faced to make toilet because of lake of money, lack of proper place etc.
In this way I have watched Youth festival from the spectacles of literature.
My Experience of Youth Festival
It was always challenging task for all the colleges to perform well in youth festival, as the level of youth is always high. One needs to do full practise with lots of hard work to be a top ranker.
In youth festival, students get chance to show their various talent in various field. From poster making to One act play everywhere, student came with full enthusiasm and show their unique skill. There were number of events organised on big platform.
This time Taxila institute of Science and Commerce College, hosted the Youth Festival.
Let us begin with the glimpse of the events which I have attended honestly:-
1. Mimicry
On 26 October I have seen several Mimicries by students from various colleges. There were total 13 Mimicries. Some of them are mindblowing. A true Mimicry must includes multiple voices. How much a person was capable of copying multiple voices with different tones and moods. The students are successful in copying the voice of animals. Some are very much repeating:-
i) Cuckoo's voice,
ii) Peacock's voice
Some voices of vehicles also:-
iii) Auto-rickshaw
iv) Train
v) Helicopter
Some of various things
vi) Opening door
vii) A Swing
Normally the mimic of opening door creates horrifying effect, as it seems like someone is opening haunted house. Some students are doing so much real copy that it rise fear in our mind of some place which was haunted since so many years.
2. Mono-acting
I have seen three performance of mono acting. All three are different in concept. I will describe two of them:-
1. About a girl who is abused by male
This mono act really make goose bump. The pitch of girl is very high and harsh, her voice is enough to rise fear in the minds of people. She criticised the male dominant society which always one and another way pressurised girl or female to do something which she didn't want.
She has used several abusive words which are not welcomed by the crowd. But this shows the intellectual level, as whether the crowd taking each and every thing on their own self or think of society. Because each and every act should refer to society not to individual. No one is targeting any individual there.
But we cannot see glimpse of various characters in the performance of girl. In whole act she remains in one tone and mood, and of one character only.
However in the other mono-acting we can see different characters played by one single girl, whether it is an old lady, a small girl child or mature etc. These type of variation differentiate one artist from other.
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| performance with variation |
2. About a Lady Hawker and her sufferings
The other Mono-acting is full of all types of emotions, sad, happy, anger etc. It is about a Lady hawker. She has performed very well. She was able to make audience cry from her live performance.
- Rising, climax and falling
She begins with comedy and then suddenly take her acting to high pitch of emotion and with her cry gives climax. First she talked with all the customers in very light and humorous mood and sells each and every things. But Suddenly when one customers ask her about her daughter then she changed her tone to serious. She slower down her voice and then started crying. Her crying brings climax, we struck that what wrong done with her. Then she gave explanation about the condition of her daughter, whose in laws sales her somewhere.
-Catharsis
When she started crying loud then we got struck by loud emotions but when she explains that she makes her daughter free from the customers, to whom the in Laws of her daughter sales her, there I feel catharsis.
In a way we get all emotions in this single 5 minute Mono-acting.
3. One act play
One act play takes 30 minutes to complete. But this 30 minutes shows all sort of things, it is almost like a short film, for example "Mahotu" which is directed by Vijaygiri Bava.
I have watched only one drama performance which covers many things into it. Its title is "Papan Vchche Dariyo"
i) Significant title
The title itself is symbolic. It signifies something emotional and the whole drama is also based on emotional theme.
ii) Use of Flashback technique
The main character was an old man who narrates the whole story in flashback technique. He narrates each and every incident of his life.
iii) Climax
When the narrator (old man) narrating the story to his own son whom he has lost before so many years, but did not recognise him,that scene brings climax into the play. His son then reveals his identity and suddenly tears fall down from the face of his father. That was really very heart touching scene.
iv) Catharsis
There was one rape scene into the play which was not performed fully in front stage but only we heard voices from backstage. This was very significant scene and it brings goose bumps. We feel catharsis and when the daughter in law commit suicide that makes audience cry. The play was successful to make audience attentive.
v) Use of music
Director of the play has used various music which holds on the interest of public and audience cannot get bored in middle. That was the technique of the master.
vi) Tragic play
The play is tragic and it brings all the elements of tragedy. It justifies Aristotelian definition of tragedy that is:-
"The imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude, complete in itself"
The role of daughter in law is complete in itself and brings tragic elements. Her life itself is tragic.
4. Skit
I have watched one skit which was full of comedy and also gives basic message of cleanliness, and the need of Toilet.
i) Size of character
It was common archetype that to bring comedy fatty or too much healthy characters are used. Same thing done in this short skit of 10 minute. One healthy character becomes the object of laugh only by his entry into the skit.
This kind of mindset we can find in "Tarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chasma" a comedy serial in which there is one healthy character Dr. Hathi.
ii) Current plans and programmes of government
As the skit deals with the current issues of society and in a way it promotes the message of Our PM Narendra Modi of cleanliness. It shows the political correctness of the people that how they think according to the views of government only and didn't look on the other side, the problem which the poor class faced to make toilet because of lake of money, lack of proper place etc.
In this way I have watched Youth festival from the spectacles of literature.
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