Bhavnagar : Rang-mohan-29th-youth-festival-2019.

Rangmohan intercollege youth festival,

Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji university,

Bhavnagar,

25-29 september, 2019.

-Organised by department of physical education😊

Have a glimpse of youth festival 

we know friends "youthfestival" has its own significance, in which our culture is reflected in various forms, such as dance, fine arts, literary events, drama etc..

On the very first day of youthfestival(25th sept.) "Kalayatra was held" in which from various colleges and departments, have taken part in exhibiting their various tableaus on particular theme called 'Gandhiji', themes such as "Gandhiji posing to keep mum, to shut the eyes and not to hear, that is inessential"🙈🙉🙊also on "swacch bharat abhiyaan" and likewise many things, comprising in it.

Moving further, we also see some major and minor themes, shown in one-act play, skit, mono-act etc.

Themes: 

Many themes were based on women like literacy, rapes, violence and love, with a touch of comic effect. 

Some themes like "Artificial intelligence", "mehulo" , "guruvandan" etc.

"Also conventionality of society was highlighted in dramatic way".

Taking "Artificial intelligence" for evaluation by applying "Aristotelian tragedy" , we are to see how it had taken place at one time, at one place and with unity of action.

There was a main conflict, that furthers the plot. Which was "the conflict between emotionality and rationality". Where a girl is telling to her friend, not to go at her home as tomorrow is her exam and if she is suppose to go to attend her father's death ceremony, perhaps she would spoil her one year and also in aftermath her career.

Chain of causes and effects was maintained "as if the girl would go at home(cause) she may loose her career(effect). If she isn't going (cause), she may be shaping her bright future ahead(effect){both positive&negative}.

While the concluded part was to make her differentiate on  her own, in actual way what is appropriate for her, to go at home?/ to give exam tomorrow? in what manner she would be benefitted, where they emphasized the idea of becoming rational, by giving exam tomorrow than joining her father's death ceremony, which is actually "the main evolutionary idea of 21st century".

"Three classical unities were maintained in some manner".

when known at the end that it was to make the girl realize on her own, it also gives 'a cathartic effect'.

If the girl had chosen 'the conventional path' there would be flaw in one-act play, but she chosen the revolutionary path  on which she is to tread upon and reach at its highest peak.

It also conveys a positive idea amidst the public "rather than being emotional, they should be rational"!

While watching some folk songs, it gives aesthetic effect, such as when boys lift themselves up in the dance and curving round their legs😍seems as somewhat dramatic/miraculous.

we also have an example of "absurd theater . where a girl is in search of  'epistolary lover', who was at times writing her love letters, but now it is stopped so some well-wishers tried to heal her from that particular trauma. At last in 'one-act play' she says "kya chhe maru raday"!

Theme seems somewhat absurd as it fails to make impact on audience and at times becomes senseless altogether with her emotions, travels from her heart. Perhaps as it is the 21st century era, this theme doesn't appeal to audience's mind. 

While placing beside it a skit performed by the same heroine of aforementioned 'one-act play' , "stage theme" was with full of impact, impressive and seems as enacted instantly. which can be analyzed with sentimental comedy, the term introduced by "Richard Steele" and we also have an example of "conscious lover", a sentimental comedy reinstated by him.

 it also gives an impact of "comedy of menace" the term introduced by Irving Wardle. Where it make one feels when the girl was narrating the life story of the stage and tried to personify it, that has come into existence from 26th september, that how the particular event, enacted by a particular performer has made inpact on audience, where analyzing their psychology they must be feeling insecure or in danger of loosing their imaginative positions.

While from our department "a skit on LGBTQ" was performed, that would have perhaps given a touch of modern tragi-comic effect, if it would have retained its charm. But it eventually loosen  or can say evaporated in some extent.

As i haven't seen each and every event, i can only offer this much to my readers. Perhaps, all events can be compared with one and other form of comedy or theatre.

Critically evaluating all these aspects, one thing struck in my mind that majority of themes were based on women's present status or we can say not the actual state of women. No one tried to put forward about "what our society ought to be" as our literature aims at. Though women are bestowed with their rights and empowered in such measure, they are still unable to utilize those in fruitful way. Instead they are violating and exploiting the rights and using those as a medium to cause damage to others or their society to which they belong or not belonging to.

While the integral thing, which works as a medium to evolve the nation is lacking. 

That is "evolutionary and innovative thinking"!

Creative/Critical thinking - Problem solving

It seems as all are after grabbing their positions in youth festival 'as a speaker also orated that "what he had seen earlier, seems as imitated by others this time, so that as former participants got, they would be able to bag such positions". While no one is thinking innovatively or bothering himself/herself to bring some new idea forward.

Why we are only highlighting the relation of "pati-patni and woh". why we aren't saying that we all indians have become blind in imitating western culture, that our actual moral sense is almost dead, of differentiating what is good and what is bad!

We always give priority to attraction, as we're attracted towards someone, we should be with him/her no matter how many girlfriends/boyfriends one has bagged in his/her purse. But we don't try to find what is concealing behind?what harm it is going to cause to our culture?  what impact it is going to establish on human minds?

Attraction = emotions

"Emotions are good, when it is healthy"!

We should highlight:

"where we are"

"what we're doing" 

"where we have involved ourselves"

We are only after highlighting, what would attract people/public and how they are going to bestow upon us such hierarchical ranks/titles.

All in all the experience of enjoying youthfestival was somewhat delightful and dormant due to some technical issues, while also thoughtful to muse upon in some extent.

Hence whether themes of various events are contemporary or not, does it contain the characteristics of particular form of comedy/tragedy or not and if it is.. How it succeeds in giving us aesthetic delight and if it gives then in what manner and what measurement! Finally what is our overall experience of enjoying the entire youthfestival.

***Thankyou***

work citations:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_of_menace

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Esslin

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/heenabazala3/sentimentalism-anti-sentimentalism

https://sites.google.com/view/maenglishmkbu/part-1/3-lit-crit-1