mood indigo

Mood Indigo is the annual cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.It is a four-day long event held towards the end of December every year and attracts a crowd of 72,000 students from more than 500 colleges all over the country. It was first started in 1973 and is Asia's largest college festival.

mood indigo 2010

This year Mood Indigo is scheduled from 20th to 23rd of December in a Desi Avatar with the theme of Desi Tadka. With Asha Bhosle and Katatonia performing, Mood Indigo is all set to rock the nation. Sumo Wrestling Champions Byamba and Naranbat will be coming down from Japan to perform at Mood Indigo and this will be their first ever visit to India. Aagaaz - the streetplay competition on social issues has successfully completed its Ahmadabad round and will soon be visiting Delhi. Livewire is set to rock music enthusiasts with its eliminations in Delhi (30th October Cafe Oz) and Bangalore (31st October Opus in the Creek).

history

Mood Indigo started back in 1973 , with a paltry budget of Rs. 5,000, which was contributed partly by the IIT Bombay Gymkhana and the rest by advertisements in the Mood Indigo brochure. Started by a bunch of enthusiastic IITians, Mood Indigo has had a legacy of Organizers. Amongst the leading names are Mr.Nandan Nilekani, Mr. Adil Zainulbhai , Mr. Atul Kanagat, Mr. Anand Sivakumaran and many more who have been associated with Mood Indigo in the past and due to whose efforts, Mood Indigo is where it is now.

The name of the festival was inspired by the Duke Ellington’s jazz composition, ‘Mood Indigo’. But back in 1973, the organizers also gave another justification to the name. “The color chosen to be representative of the Mood was Indigo — a fusion of Red and Blue. Red for the warmth and passion of an artistic adventure, blue for the originality of the rational mind, giving Indigo — the symbol of creativity and intellectualism.”

proshows

Mood Indigo has forever fascinated the masses with "larger than life" pronites under the names of - the Livewire Night, the Classical Night, the Fusion Night and the Popular Night, which includes big names as Porcupine Tree, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Ensiferum, Sonu Nigam, Shaan, Manna Dey, Jagjit Singh, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash, Indian Ocean (band), Kavita Sethand many more entertaining the jam packed crowd.

Under the International Music Festival, renowned artists from all over the world such as Francessca Cassio, The Indian Core, Meja, Moriarty (band), The Giraffes, Jan Akkerman have performed, giving the fest a global touch.

Workshops in the past have covered subjects ranging from whistling and martial arts to hypnotism and tap dance. Dating and DJ workshops have been held in the recent year. Other shows have included performances by Nofit State Circus, Tararam, 4 Guinness records holder Victor Rubilar, Chris Korn – the famous magician, the theater festival and many more.

Bike stunts, sand sculptures, rangolis and the lantern festival have made up Exhibitions at Mood Indigo. Graffiti by artists from across the world have adorned the walls at IIT Bombay. Other art forms at display in recent editions of Mood Indigo include Ebru (a Turkish art form) and biographical collage posters.