Annual Cultural Festival 'Unmaad 2007' All Set to Rock IIM Bangalore

Annual Cultural Festival 'Unmaad 2007' All Set to Rock IIM Bangalore
February 2-4, 2007

What do a stunt football-playing troupe from Saudi Arabia, extreme X games BMX bikers, some of India's most well-known DJs and the food and beverage managers from The Taj and The Leela have in common with a B-school? Simple. Unmaad 2007.

'Unmaad', IIM Bangalore's Annual Cultural Festival, is one of the largest, most popular and most widely covered inter-college events in India. From its relatively humble beginnings with events more or less confined to Bangalore colleges, Unmaad has evolved today to a multi-million rupee, gigantic, national event. Slated to be held over the weekend, February 2-4, at the IIM Bangalore's Bannerghatta Road Campus, Unmaad will feature a diverse set of events non-stop over 72 hours, including literary events, performing arts and fine arts.

Apart from the big-ticket professional performances by Lucky Ali, Kailash Kher, Indian Ocean and Junoon, that are expected to form an integral part of the Unmaad 2007 experience, this year's edition also promises to have a variety of workshops on things as wide-ranging as stunt football, stunt dancing, BMX biking, cocktail mixing and DJing.

The international stunt football team from Saudi Arabia is expected to strut their stuff and drop a few pointers for potential Ronaldinhos and Beckhams among the Unmaad audience on Friday, 2nd February. Along with the stunt football workshop will be the exhilarating X-games pros from the world of BMX biking with their gravity-defying moves and breath-taking, awe-inspiring stunts, all set to set Unmaad on fire.

On Saturday, 3rd February, leading DJs from India, including DJs Leon and Jasmeet from Athena's, Jeffrey's, Nick's and Spinz's will conduct a walk-through for Unmaad participants on the basics of DJing. For the complete pubbing experience, the food and beverage managers from The Leela and The Taj hotels will also be hosting a workshop on the fine art of mixing cocktails. The participants at the workshops will not only get a chance to interact with the experts, but select short-listed participants will also compete among themselves in the DJ Wars and the Cocktail Wars events which will be held later that night at IIM Bangalore's famed L Square.

Also during Unmaad, the Mr. & Ms. Unmaad Personality Contest is slated to be judged by Miss Amrita Patki, former Miss India Asia Pacific (2006) who will also be chief judge at the Unmaad Ramp of Fire.

Registrations for both workshops and other events are currently open and participants may contact IIM Bangalore representatives or logon to the website - www.unmaad.com - for further details.

Taking brand Unmaad all over India this year will be Radio Mirchi and Channel V, two of the principal media partners. Radio Mirchi will, in fact, be broadcasting for one entire day straight from IIM Bangalore's campus - taking the excitement of Unmaad all over Bangalore. Channel V is also expected to broadcast live from Unmaad 2007 across the country. It is certain, then, that Unmaad fever is well on its way again, bringing with it three days of Madness, Melodrama and Magic, right here at IIM Bangalore.

Concluded.

Contributed by -
Shruti Rangarajan,
PGP-1, Student Media Cell,
IIM Bangalore.

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