A brief post on Mood Indigo '04

The long delay after the 25th wasn't because of editing of this pending post. I'm back from Mood Indigo 2004. Nothing much to rave about, so just a few jottings about the quizzes and pronites. (What else did I go there for?)

The quizzes
Most of what I'd like to say has already been covered by Kunal S here. My own thoughts:-
You just cannot prevent suspicions of rigging when you don't have a slide show/presentation, and the general and entertainment quizzes didn't have them.

The entertainment quiz was the one that pissed everyone off (not to forget the QMs). The questions were absurd, and so I spent my time with some research. Here are some results: Out of the 50 odd questions in normal rounds, 20 concerned rock/metal, 25 on Hollywood, the rest on computer games and sitcoms. The specialities rounds (which had passing in the same direction) had the themes as Rap, Bands & Terms, Comp games, Shrek, Sitcoms, Tarantino and Music Art. Now I agree western music and films are more popular, but one can be more indiscriminate. So truly speaking, it restricted the domain of 'entertainment' and IMHO, shouln't have been called an Ent Quiz after all.
'Buzzers' were by show of hands. (Yes, we were in IIT.)

The sports quiz was comparatively better, probably beacause it was outsourced. Felt rather amazed by the behaviour of the organisers from Xaviers who refused to share their questions. A soft copy of the questions didn't exist it seems. Yeah, yeah.

A strong mention about the guys from Anna University who swept all the quizzes. Hats off!

Another about the new feature of the 'Lounge' which had audience quizzes, documentaries, videos, etc. At least all of us were content by the various freebies that were doled out!

The pronites
They began with the Classical Nite. A mild headache wouldn't let me enjoy the dance by Hema Malini & Ahana Deol (aur Mummy ke room mei.n, chandan Casper). But fortunately, it reduced thanks to the mind-blowing performance by Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhat and his son.

The opening artistes on the Fusion Nite were disappointing. Then came Remo Fernandes and his Microwave Poppadoms. The talented Mr. Remo offered his standard stuff, his usual setlist of his own popular numbers consisting of gibberish in-between lyrics, common tunes and applaudable on-stage antics. Its his ability of showmanship more than the music itself that makes the crowds want more. All in all, good stuff.

Skipped the next 2 pronites to watch the dramatics, which weren't as good as last year.
The rock show was cancelled due to the demise of the former PM. Witnessed some rather politically incorrect comments made by persons dressed in black, but couldn't help agree with a statement about sponsorships that wouldn't have been possible without him.

I had enjoyed MI thoroughly last year, and looked excessively forward to MI '04! An anti-climax, that's what it was...