Youth Festival 2018: Academic Task

 Youth Festival 2018: Academic Task: 

           This blog is part of my academic task. 

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar  University has celebrated three days of Youth festival which has given the name as Ashvariyam Youth festival. This festival celebrated on 26th October to 28th October. In this festival there were many events like  One Act Play , Skit , Mono-acting , Poetry Recitation , on the spot Painting,  Collage, Cartooning, Rangoli, Installation, Photography , Poster Making , Western group song and solo song , Bhajan , Group Traditional Orchestra  etc. So the task given by Dilip Barad  Sir to watch this events and do critical observation and try to connect with various literary terms. 

I attended serval events like One act play , Mono acting , Rangoli ,  Western group and solo song and Mimicry. 

1) One act play : 

I have watched only one play " Sikkani Triji Baju". This play is reflect the real life situation. This play is all about the condition of third gender in society. How society looks differently towards third gender people though they have the same feeling and emotions as other human being have but society didn't accept it. Our film and television portrayed this type of people as comical way. So people didn't habituated to look this people in sympathetic way. In this play also shows that how society looks towards this people. This play follows the aristocratic structure of play : Rising action , conflict and falling action.This play have also some tragic elements through we felt catharsis.

    When we read this play from feminist perspective it reflects the woman suffering in society. Because the woman has given birth to third gender child. She humiliated by society and family members. The situation becomes so critical that she forced to left the house with her child. She grown up the child single handed without help of others. So how she treated in society because she gave birth to the child which is third gender and not acceptable in society. 

    This play also reflects the  situation of third gender people in society. They do not treated as human being but society calling them "others ". So we can see how society differentiate this type of people by identifying them as others.

     Also in this play we can see the use of Good symbolically language. In this play this type of people consider as the eighth color of rainbow. This type of symbolical language was used in play. Which has significant meaning behind it. 

2 ) Mono acting : 

 Doing acting  all alone is very difficult task. I have seen two Mono-acting. One is about the condition of lady hawker. Which is performed by my fellow classmate. It reflects the condition of woman in the patriarchal society. This acting moving from comedy to tragedy. So it  becomes successful in generating catharsis in audience mind. It also reflects patriarchal power. At the end she questioning the audience about the ideal woman. Whom they consider ideal woman ? The one who fits in patriarchal mindset of ideal woman or the one who live freely and following her passions and embitions ? So this way she highlighted woman conditions. The second mono acting which I like the subject  was " Ashvathama". In this the girl connected the current condition of woman. She highlighted the situation of girl child. Girl child is killed in mother womb. So this both act was tragic act. It highlights women condition in patriarchal society and suffering of woman for her existence. 

3)  Rangoli:

There were many Rangoli in youth festival. Most of them is the typical traditional Rangoli. The one Rangoli which I like most is this Rangoli. In this Rangoli we can see Nature and technology together. The Nature and technology both are the important part of human life. In this Rangoli both is equally important. Now days technology is most significant part of human life. Facebook ,  Twitter, Google plus , What's app , Blogger , YouTube and Google maps make life easy and fast. With in that the Nature also very important part of life. So in this this two type of things brings together in one Rangoli. It also reflects tradition and modernity in art. 

4) Mimicry : 

  Mimicry consider as one of the difficult form of art. In Mimicry I saw some acts. By attending this session we come to know about the different sounds of things and animals around us. Normally we don't hear all the sound with concentration.  In this session there were many sounds like 

• Sound of table tennis 

• voice of peacock 

• Sound of train 

• Sound of drop of water 

• Sound of vehicle like Rickshaw and helicopter, car etc. 

• Sound of political leaders 

• Sound of cartoons etc.

        So there were many sounds coping by each performer. So each of them capable to coping various sounds one after another. I find one interesting thing that some of them try to creating a story and the sound of things going parallel with the story told by them.

  

6) Painting :

     I have not seen any  of paintings but I try to interprete with the help of their photographs. The paintings reflects me too movement ,  conditions of women ,  harmful effects of using technology and smart phones , Differnce between Digital classroom and traditional classroom , useing smartphone and technology ( Usb code, SMS,  Pdf file , pen drive )  for saving papers. So all these things are connecting  with the current time. 

7) Installation : 

Installation the idea itself the progressive way to giving message by using useless things. In this it gives the message of cleanliness , traditional musical instruments ,  religion and traditional festival celebration  like Navratri..etc.

 This thing also seen as the modern art. Using the boots and hat ,  lock and key. It reflects control over the people. Hat is represtative of mind and boots representative of Body. Key and lock symbolise connection between both mind and body. It is always together.