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Mumbai: When college festivals lose fun
Updated On: 19 May, 2024 06:48 AM IST | Mumbai | Tanya Syed
They are known for their hefty endorsements, big ticket celebrities and high-octane performances—mid-day explores the pressure that putting up a perfect college festival puts on the students involved
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Siddhant Chaturvedi at NM’s Umang Fest in 2019. PIC/GETTY IMAGES
Tanya Dsouza was added to a Whatsapp group named “Malhar Quartet 2023” last summer, with a one-liner telling her to check the college website. She soon realised that she was at the helm of the city’s biggest college festival. “It was absolutely surreal,” she told mid-day, “but the very next moment I remember feeling stressed.” In the coming months, she’d shift to South Bombay into a hostel from her home in Vashi, Navi Mumbai. “I was coming to college at 8 am and leaving around 10.30 pm—I figured this set up would be better.”
For some, college festivals are the part of college life they look forward to the most. Euphoric musical shows, exclusive panel discussions, novel workshops and cut-throat competition—they have it all. Seeping in with this excitement each year is also the ever-present pressure of higher stakes, with each organising team wanting to outdo last year’s event, and bending backwards to fulfil the expectations of the impending tide of visitors—a 20,000 strong wave.
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