Annual Cultural Fest (31st January – 2nd February 2019)

Blitzschlag '19 Report

Rajasthan's biggest and most popularcollege festival, Blitzschlag'19 was organized

at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur. A three-day extravaganza

from the 31st January to 2nd February 2019 was organized by Creative Arts and

Cultural Society, touched the lives of all who were involved and visited the fest.

The grand endeavor was turned into realities, under the guidance of Director Prof

UdaykumarYaragatti, Dean (SW) Tarush Chandra, Associate Dean (CACS&

AA) Lava Bhargava,and Coordinator (CACS)Arun Kumar Vermawho were

ably assisted by the staff and the core team of CACS student council. With a

thunderous line-up of cultural events and competitions topped with engaging

workshops, Blitzschlag'19 was crowd pleasing to every circle of students. The

event witnessed a footfall of approximately 4,000 students.

On 31stJanuary 2019, BLITSCHLAG’19, the annual cultural fest commenced

with the blessings of God and lighting of the lamp by our teachers and the

core team at the inauguration ceremony.

The spectacular and most awaitedDay1 of BLITZSCHLAG’ 19 unfolded with a

warm welcome to all the teams who came from various other collegesgraced the

occasion. Keeping up the ardor of the pronitesto an all-time high, as the night saw

the curtains falling over Blitzschlag’19, EDM Night made the crowd of MNIT

dance to beats of most popular DJ in the country, Progressive Brothers, an

electronic music duo band which performed at India’s biggest electronic music

festivals like Sunburn. With the high energy, DJ sets and brands of music, the two

energetic souls speeded the wildfire across the scene. This visual treat made the

night an unforgettable one! The night wasignited byRamba–Samba, a fierce

dancing competition. Various colleges came up with their best dance troops to

make the event a huge success.

After the enthralling dance performances, ’PANACHE’ the fashion show marked

the beginning of second day of Blitz 2k19, where fashion divas and handsome

hunks from renowned colleges set the pace for it. With their stupendous

performances and wonderfulattires, participants stole the spectator’s heart. Mrs.

India 2018 Royal Beauty and Pride of Rajasthan, Twinkle Patodia, Mr. India

2017 Men’s Physique and Mr. Rajasthan, Mr.RohitRupaniand Model and

influencer, Ms.Rupali Sharma were the esteemed judges and attraction of the

evening. The event took eyes of audience when our honorableDirector Professor

and faculty members walked on ramp for the first time.

Our honorable Director Prof.UdaykumarYaragatti and Prof. Tarush Chandra, Mrs.

Kalpana Pandit and Dr. Madhu Agarwal accompanied the group in their final walk.

It not only pleased the huge gathering but also catalyzed the hidden sparks of

fashion in the admirers of the event.

BLITZSCHLAG'19organised a celebrity night on third day evening with a living

legend, Javed Ali from Delhi. He is more than an artist, television presenter and an

amazing playback singer and an extraordinary human being. For his distinguished

work and outstanding contribution, he was conferred the IIFA award in 2009 in

The Best Male Playback Singer category and Screen Awards in 2012 for the best

playback singer and many more along with a long list of nominations.A versatile

singer who sings in other languages like Bengali, Urdu and the list is endless.

Moreover, this popular singer held the audiencespellbound at UN along with

maestro, A.R. Rahman to celebrate Independence Day. The audience was

thoroughly enthralled by his mesmerizing performance and his magical sufi songs

showered peace. The multitude of the Blitzschlag’19 extravaganza touched the

highest notes with the young heartthrobgracing the fest with his melodies. With his

broad vocal range and versatility of famous Bollywood songs, he swayed the hearts

of audience. It was an enjoyable musical evening with such an exemplarymusician.

All the three days packed with numerous competitions, workshops and of course,

exciting pronites were enjoyed thoroughly by the students.

As the diverse colors of rainbow enhance the magnificence of the sky, so do the

societies of MNIT that made the days and evenings shimmer. With their unique

flairs, being under the umbrella of BLITZSCHLAG, the events left their

everlasting and impeccable impact on the mind of the Jaipurites.

DRAMATICS SOCIETY:

The Dramatics society of Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

organized events in the college fest Blitzschlag 2k18, 'SPOOF' was held on first

day of the fest , where the participants displayed theirhumorous talent through their

acts of imitating different movie scenes with their own humorous input.

'Tamasha' and 'Advitya' were held on second day of the fest. In 'Tamasha', 9 teams

participated presenting Nukkad Nataks based on various social issues, among

which Lady Harding Medical college, DU stood first mesmerizing the audience

with their performance, focusing upon depression. Hereafter, 'Advitiya' the mono

act competition was held where various individuals from both MNIT as well as

other colleges displayed their forte in the field of drama.

The last event 'Rang Bhoomi' was organised on the last day of the festival, where

several exhilarating stage plays were presented in which Ramjas college, DU stood

first and second position was bagged by MNIT .

FILM SOCIETY:

The film festival organised by MNIT, Film and Photography Club was an

international level film festival and the entries received from all over the world. It

was a 3-day fest during which the film entries were made to go through screenings

with final screening on 2nd February 2019. The results were completely rational

and finalized by honored personalities of the film industries themselves.

The fest also included a talk show with our main speakers Mr.Akash Chhabra,

Filmmaker, Founder FDCR and alpine creation, Mr. Puneet Khatri, Founder

and president FDCR and Mr. Ajay Sharma, Producer, Filmmaker, Ex-

producer with DD news. The interactive session was held at NeetiSabhaghar

which brimmed us with all the important knowledge regarding film making.The

festival was a huge success with fair amount of attendees of the event. The winners

were honored with the prizes by the jury members, the speakers themselves. The

panels were given a token of thanks by the General Secretary of the club. The long

term hard work of the club paid off well.

MUSIC AND DANCE SOCIETY:

THE VOICE CHOICE

The overwhelming response from the audiences set the evidence of our successful

music event. On demand by the students, Music & SPIC MACAY Society

organized a musical event during Blitzschlag 2019 by Shri Vikas Gupta & Tabla

artist.Vikas Gupta is a renown sitar artist and the event turned out to be a huge

success. Event was held in MINI AUDI on the second day of the event, 1st of

February. Around 200 people who attended the event were mesmerized by the

glamourous performance.Mementoes were given to artists by dean,Prof. Tarush

Chandra at the end of the event.

Furthermore, the instrumental songs presented in the competition added even more

zest to the event.

SOLO DANCE AND RAMBHA SAMBHA:

Blitzschlag Eve is incomplete without the power pack treasure of dances. The

dances that highlight life, strength, and a different story of its own, made the

audience to watch in awe how one can turn imagination into reality. At VLTC

lecture gate, the aura of western dance (solo) and Break free set the ground on fire.

The event saw competition from among 20 colleges in Jaipur including JECRC,

SKIT, AMITY Jaipur and Maharani Engineering Girl’s College. The crowd

consisted of almost 250 people all standing in a circle around the speakers.

Rambha Samba was one of the most scintillating events being enjoyed by the

viewers, held on 31st January 2019, on the first day of Blitzschlag 2019, at the

football ground from 5pm to 8pm. Ramba Samba was a hip-hop group dancing

competition which had huge participation of 17 teams from Delhi, Chandigarh,

Ajmer, and Jaipur.PEC University, Punjab won the first prize worth 40000 INR

along with a trophy and certificates, they also got Buskers dance academy’s studio

for three hours for a videoshoot as well as 50% off on all their dance courses. The

2nd and 3rd prize was bagged by Sparda, Delhi, and Banasthali, Jaipur each

winning a cash prize of 25,000 and 15,000 INR respectively. The other finalists got

apple vouchers worth 10,000 rupees.

PHOTOGRAPHY:

The photography section of Film & Photography club organised Moments’19 - The

Annual Photography Competition cum Exhibition. Total of 4 competitions and 1

photography workshop was organised -

‘MOMENTS’, which is an exhibition cum competition of creative & innovative

photograph. Entries for competition were invited from all the reputed engineering

and architectural colleges in India and outside of India. Top 110 photographs were

shortlisted for exhibition in pre-final jury among 3500 entries. Final jury

announced 3 photos from each category of total 10 categories as winners.

1. ONLINE EVENT

It was the event for the candidates to displaytheir talent of photography

skills. The need was to click pictures through a mobile or through a DSLR.

The event was an on the spot competition. There were about 70-75 photo

entries which were received.

2. BLITZSCHLAG SELFIE CONTEST

In this event, Candidates had to send their photo entries along with the

respective genres. The photographs were uploaded on film and photography

page of Facebook and the winners were declared based on Point Rule.

3. MOBILE AND DSLR PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

The film and photography club MNIT Jaipur in association with Nikon India

organised a workshop on photography.This workshop was taken by Mr.

ChitranshSaxena , a true nikonite who came all the way to take this

workshop.

4. VINE O MANIA

In this event, candidates had to send the short funny videos. There were

about 40-50 entries which were received in this event.

5. ANIMATION CONTEST

ANIMATE was online animation challenge in which participants had to

send their entries of a 2D animation on typography. They could use

aftereffects to create animation.

CONCEVOIR- FINE ARTS SOCIETY:

The Architecture Department has always been fortunate to have an exclusive

say in the annual cultural fest, with “Concevoir”- designing amazing

creations for quite some years, by now. The head of the Architecture

department and other faculties were present at the official commencement.

The event was promoted in all possible ways-posters online and offline,

telephonic calls, visits to other colleges, Whatsapp, the Instagram handle

was already being used to spread the word. The event was visited by

Director Sir, Dean Student Welfare, and other faculties from the institute.

This architecture event comprised of multitudinous engrossing activities.

Students from many colleges showed up throughout all three days of the

event.

An enthralling soap carving activity was carried out, whereby just two things

came handy- a cutter and soap. A Metal Workshop for casting sculptures

through metals was carried out, too. Out of the Block, reviving the block

print technique for students by block this event amalgamated the art of

Rajasthan and Assam. Clay Mitti was organized by a third-year student

whereby beautiful mud sculptures turned out. Organized by two-secondyear

students, Dribble the marble- was as interesting as its name. None other than

Ar. Anuj Kale, synonymous to “Leewardists” graced the institute and

conducted a 2-day workshop. Design me whereby white T-shirts could be

customized according to the heart’s desire, magic with hands and paints.

Trashion as the name suggests comprised of fashion statement from all trash.

The finalists got lucky as they walked down the ramp at Panache infront of

an even huge audience. Sky War saw great enthusiasm for flying kites.

Ribbon Art, Contrasto were some other events conducted. Symphony of

Colours came with an amazing tagline, “Put your Retro Caps on”, with

dollops of paint, lots of white paper went alluring in few hours. House it was

very realistic since it offered a hands-on situation. More than twenty-five

teams from both architecture and engineering turned up for Treasure Hunt.

The event concluded on the third day in the presence of faculty from the

Architecture Department. The event turned out to be a huge success like

every year.

LITERARY SOCIETY:

The Literary Society, MNIT organizedseveral events in Blitzschlag'19 such

as Pen it down, Puzzleria, Kavyanjali, JAM, Questival, Bhaavyankur, Verses

vs verses and even conducted a Creative Writing workshop that focused on

reveling the creative writing skills of all the young enthusiastic writers -an

event that celebrates beauty and power of words as well as creativity of

minds. Rahul Kaushik AKA Themelting words was invited to conduct the

workshop. All the entries in the various events were evaluated on the basis

of literature and vocabulary, expression and clarity, consistency, power and

impact and the creativity of the writers and the avid literature learners.All

the young extremely talented minds were put to test,where each of them

displayed the immensely exceptional skills they possess, expressing the

beauty of their creativity,the experiences of their life and the quality of their

mind.

Blitzschlag’18 has epitomized the ultimate array of cultural activities on an

Institute platform. All the three days packed with numerous competitions,

workshops and of course, exciting pronites were enjoyed thoroughly by the

students.Keeping heart, mind and soul, the institute bought a treasure of

talent. It has been a paradise for the young generation for them to nurture

and showcase their cultural and managerial skills.

Prepared By:

Mrs. Simi Choudhary

Senior Assistant

CACS & AA (SW)