1st day, 1st show: BMCC’s TROIKA needs some fizz

Season's 1st college festival opens to mostly empty halls as organisers go for B-school kind of events instead of music, fashion shows

1st day, 1st show: BMCC's TROIKA needs some fizz

Season's 1st college festival opens to mostly empty halls as organisers go for B-school kind of events instead of music, fashion shows

It is the season of annual festivals for city colleges, and the first to get going was the BMCC festival TROIKA yesterday.

May be because it was a strictly B-school kind of affair, the first day of the festival failed to live up to expectations and participation remained thin. Barely 100-odd students turned up for each of the events, and most of them were from the parent college.

The festival was an amalgamation of three signature events of BMCC, namely Beyond Horizon, Technotainment and Business Talent Hunt.

TROIKA is a low budget affair at Rs 1 lakh for the three-day festival, and this fact is especially striking when it is compared to fests like ISB&M Crescendo (Rs 60 lakh) or VIT's Melange (Rs 40 lakh).

The organising committee kept the participation fee at a nominal Rs 200 to increase footfalls, though it did not seem to work out that way.

The festival was a bit technical where management and technical skills of management students were put to test with events that, though interesting, had nothing new to offer.

Some of the competitions like Madzapp that required creating advertisements for products, Inquisition, which was an IT quiz, or Mega-M, which was a team competition to test co-ordination, were predictable competitions.

A student from a participating college said that though the event was interesting to B-school students, he had hoped for more fun events.

"I wish there was some masala too. I agree that there have to be brainy events, but I wish they had also considered that we are all young people and kept some music or fashion shows," he said. "It was intellectually stimulating but left a lot to be desired."

(With inputs from M Pavitra)

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