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Posted by gautami | Filed under Uncategorized
http://www.skidrow.com/tour.html
http://www.hammerfall.net/Tour.aspx?ReqID=6ba5b389-5703-46ba-adf4-9c8e8b5ec101
It just doesn’t get any better than this!!!
Nokia Theme
Posted by jayanth | Filed under Uncategorized
Saarang theme for Nokia phones based on the S40 (series 40) platform is available for download here.
8 days to go..
Posted by gautami | Filed under Uncategorized
How we cracked SkidRow
Posted by gautami | Filed under Uncategorized
If it’s Saarang, one thing stays constant – our team never ceases to ‘put fight’.
And this year, they did put hajjar fight.
While we already had a towering band in HammerFall performing at our Rock Show, we thought we should aim higher. We knew Skid Row would be in town almost during the same time as Saarang and to devoid the fans of an opportunity to see them perform at Saarang sounded criminal to us. So, we did the needful – put fight.
It was one marathon night for our professional shows team when they had an umpteen number of email exchanges with the Skid Row manager – to gauge their interest, to make an offer and to get their confirmation – all in the spate of 10 hours! From 10 PM to 8 AM India time. Once we got to know that there is an outside chance to get them to Saarang, our team jumped onto it – providing every minor detail and clarification that was asked for. The result was truly satisfying – with the dawn of the day came the confirmation from their manager. And since then has began a whole new round of putting fight.
The result is for you to see – 1900 hours, Open Air Theatre, IIT Madras, 25th January, 2010 – Saarang will host the largest rock show yet in India featuring HammerFall and Skid Row. Be there. Live a Saarang.
PS: Oh, and the whole professional shows team missed their classes the next day. Nonetheless, a night-out well spent!
9 Days to go..
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Tweet it!
Posted by neeraj | Filed under Lectures
Author’s claim at becoming quotable: If you think there is something like the Murphy’s law, it doesnt work for Saarang. If something can go right, it always will at Saarang.
Not that I would want to be quoted too often but after this Saarang that is invariably bound to happen.
The news of Gautham Menon coming to Saarang came as a Tweet. Apart from 93 twitter updates from Shashi Tharoor, our lecdems coordinator had one that confirmed Gautham Menon’s participation at Saarang.
Gautham Menon will deliver a lecture at ICSR main auditorium on January 22.
Tweet it!
Kamal at Saarang
Posted by neeraj | Filed under Lectures
The galaxy of stars at Saarang 2010 only gets bigger with Kamal Haasan inaugrating the events at this extravagant festival.
It all started with the vision of the Saarang team to make the best and foremost stars of world cinema to come to Saarang. The process of getting Kamal Haasan would have frustrated any other person but Rinju – our lecdems coordinator. After 543 calls, 6 months, confirmations, reconfirmations the Saarang team found itself in Kamal Haasan’s office who said- ‘I will be there’.
Kamal Haasan will deliver a lecture at 9 AM in ICSR main auditorium on 22nd January.
Will you be there?
Mail the questions you want to ask Kamal Haasan to askkamal@saarang.org and select few questions will be answered by him at the lecture.
Saarang Teaser
Posted by jayanth | Filed under Uncategorized
Saarang teaser up. Check it out…
Tags: Design
Because its Saarang
Posted by neeraj | Filed under Uncategorized
One day you wake up and see it happening.
Why we do it? Because its Saarang.
The forty Saarang teams till date have invested a time equal to the age of this events core to make each Saarang, The Saarang.
Why they did it? Because its Saarang.
Six months a year spent planning Saarang gives us in return five days when 50000 people put all their other plans on hold just to be here.
Why they do it? Because its Saarang.
A team envisions to put in place an event that no other festival ventures to organize merely because of the heavy odds against succeeding: the Theatre Fest.
Why we succeeded? Because its Saarang.
People in Chennai with have grown with memories of Saarang that most people like me coming from north of Vindhyas had been well oblivious of until we entered IITM. Yet, each year as we climb higher the ladder Saarang ceases to become merely a cultural festival for us; it becomes a part of being so important that one would rather be willing to watch Love Story 2050 50 times over just to be a part of this fest.
A fresher at IITM may miss classes, keep all other work aside just to move chairs in OAT to make the show happen. Now, that for me is Saarang.
To come to a place alone perhaps, participate in events, show some wits, win some goodies and walk back with a bunch of friends. That is Saarang for me.
All through the year, you walk past the OAT, dwarfed by its gigantic size and see it used only once a week if the rains permit. These five days you no longer walk past OAT. You become a part of it and with all the preparations leading to the proshow you make OAT come alive. It breathes, throbs and lives only these five days. That for me is Saarang.
You love to hear a voice over and over again. You want it to win at Saarang. If, however, on the day it doesnt you still walk back deeply satisfied because you know that the best voice in the auditorium has won. That for me is Saarang.
And then one day you wake up to see that its all over. But there is nothing more that could have been asked for. Nothing that could have made it livelier because those five days were a life itself. All this and more only because its Saarang.
Time to come alive. Time to live a Saarang.
Walls
Posted by jayanth | Filed under Uncategorized
Saarang is here!
Rock on!
Tags: Design