MTV Music Summit
One of the enthusiastic guys in my office got hold of five free passes for the MTV Music Summit last Saturday. As one of the five people backed off at the last moment, I grabbed the opportunity to go along.
The program was scheduled to start at 6 in the evening. We were well before time, at around five, to secure a place considerably close to the main stage. As time passed the deluge of young faces poured in. By six, it was quite full, at least as far I could see. The show started with Cyrus Broacha and Nikhil appearing on stage and doing some funny stuff, which they continued, along with other MTV VJs, during the breaks. Yes, the AIDS awareness stuff was also very much there as the prime aim of the show was to promote the war against HIV.
Finally the main show began. There was some guy named Raghav (do I recall the name correctly? Well, I’m not sure.) who performed two songs and tried to create more awareness about his next album than AIDS. Certain other performers followed and it wasn’t even half an hour past when I felt like getting out of the mess. With each new song starting, people put their hands up in the air expectant of a thrilling number, only to put them down after a few seconds frustrated yet again with a rather dull song. That’s the best they could do. Did you expect them to dance? Well, there wasn’t just enough room for such luxury. However quite strangely the crowd still had enough energy and interest to shout and jump at the slightest provocation from the hosts or the camera focusing on them. If you happen to watch its video recording, you will feel as if the mass was jumping and waving their hands all through the show, while the truth is far from being so.
Reading so far, if you are thinking that it was all bogus, you are wrong. Sophie, the VJ who recently acted in the film Shaadi No 1, restored some charm to the show with a few good numbers. Next to follow were Avijit Sawan, Amit Sana and another person from their Indian Idol contest. They were good. The show got even better with Bombay Vikings and Strings notwithstanding occasional interruptions for AIDS campaigns, bad jokes from Cyrus & Co., the irritating Gulshan Grover and worst of them all, the long breaks for showing advertisements of the sponsors.
We left the show with around another half an hour more to spare in the show. Such a show will be an average experience for average people, neither too good nor too bad. Well, conditions apply – you should have enough physical tenacity to stand in an overwhelming crowd for over four hours sometimes not being able to move even an inch to relax your numbing limbs, you should be able to resist plucking your hair in frustration while they show you the same set of advertisements over and over again (be prepared for this if you are getting a free pass with the logos of sponsors printed on it), you should have enough zeal to shout whenever the host on the stage asks you to.
The program was scheduled to start at 6 in the evening. We were well before time, at around five, to secure a place considerably close to the main stage. As time passed the deluge of young faces poured in. By six, it was quite full, at least as far I could see. The show started with Cyrus Broacha and Nikhil appearing on stage and doing some funny stuff, which they continued, along with other MTV VJs, during the breaks. Yes, the AIDS awareness stuff was also very much there as the prime aim of the show was to promote the war against HIV.
Finally the main show began. There was some guy named Raghav (do I recall the name correctly? Well, I’m not sure.) who performed two songs and tried to create more awareness about his next album than AIDS. Certain other performers followed and it wasn’t even half an hour past when I felt like getting out of the mess. With each new song starting, people put their hands up in the air expectant of a thrilling number, only to put them down after a few seconds frustrated yet again with a rather dull song. That’s the best they could do. Did you expect them to dance? Well, there wasn’t just enough room for such luxury. However quite strangely the crowd still had enough energy and interest to shout and jump at the slightest provocation from the hosts or the camera focusing on them. If you happen to watch its video recording, you will feel as if the mass was jumping and waving their hands all through the show, while the truth is far from being so.
Reading so far, if you are thinking that it was all bogus, you are wrong. Sophie, the VJ who recently acted in the film Shaadi No 1, restored some charm to the show with a few good numbers. Next to follow were Avijit Sawan, Amit Sana and another person from their Indian Idol contest. They were good. The show got even better with Bombay Vikings and Strings notwithstanding occasional interruptions for AIDS campaigns, bad jokes from Cyrus & Co., the irritating Gulshan Grover and worst of them all, the long breaks for showing advertisements of the sponsors.
We left the show with around another half an hour more to spare in the show. Such a show will be an average experience for average people, neither too good nor too bad. Well, conditions apply – you should have enough physical tenacity to stand in an overwhelming crowd for over four hours sometimes not being able to move even an inch to relax your numbing limbs, you should be able to resist plucking your hair in frustration while they show you the same set of advertisements over and over again (be prepared for this if you are getting a free pass with the logos of sponsors printed on it), you should have enough zeal to shout whenever the host on the stage asks you to.
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