campus creators & culture
campus creators & culture
LOCALE (zone). West India.
Every great film begins with a story. Sometimes it’s an idea scribbled in a notebook. Sometimes it’s a memory that refuses to fade. And sometimes, it’s a perspective the world hasn’t seen yet. The 3rd Edition of the Symbiosis Film…
India’s premier music business conference celebrates ten years of transformative conversations as the industry stands at a technological crossroads The bustling streets of Mumbai will once again serve as the epicenter of musical transformation as All About Music (AAM) returns…
Sitting in conversation with Tarsame Mittal, Amit Trivedi’s eyes light up when the topic turns to IIT Mood Indigo. For one of Bollywood’s most distinctive music composers, the prestigious festival holds special significance. It was there in January 2010 that…
Picture this: a circle of people on the floor, candles flickering, and a guitar cable snaking past someone’s socks. The singer is an arm’s length away, not a speck in the distance. When the first chord rings out, the room…
Some performances stay with you because they’re technically flawless. Others stick because someone takes a risk that could’ve gone either way. At Umang 2020’s Bollywood Unwind, Parinay Jain, representing Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, did exactly that when…
Every hip-hop scene eventually finds an artist who comes to represent something larger than themselves. American rap has long celebrated artists whose music became inseparable from the neighbourhoods that shaped them. Grime grew through voices that captured the realities of…
There’s something slightly terrifying about performing an original song. Cover songs come with a safety net. People already know the lyrics. They know when to clap. Sometimes they even sing along. Original music? That’s a completely different game. At Jai…
At a time when algorithms increasingly decide what stories people see, film festivals continue to serve a different purpose. They create spaces where communities can gather around stories that might otherwise remain invisible. That is one reason the 17th edition…
This Wilson College band performance at Malhar feels like someone plugged an aux cable directly into 2016. The second the medley starts, you already know what kind of ride this is going to be. One Bollywood hit after another, zero…
Haritha Menon’s mono act at Mood Indigo 2017 takes on an incredibly heavy subject, and treats it with the kind of vulnerability that still gives us goosebumps. The performance blends confusion with innocence, trying to make sense of something terrifying…