ALLGOs Cancelled...

Allgos= ALL-GO-RHYTHMS… our annual cultural festival at Osmania University. This year its cancelled, well not that it affects me as I wouldn’t have ‘actively’ participated in it for reasons best unknown! But it reminded me of the scene in Rang de Basanti where an ABVP/SFI (Akhil Bhartiya Vidya Parishad/Students Federation of India who are responsible for quite a few boycotts in college which we inturn utilized it constructively;) )type of an activist spoils the ‘masti ki pathshaala’ of the ‘cool dudes’. Well something similar has apparently happened in our college.. they threatened to have a ‘RAASTHA ROKO’ (where they’ll just sit off on road and cause inconvenience to everybody till the college is forced to listen to them) if the juke-box is allowed at the festival.
Now jukebox is one event which is enjoyed by the majority guys of my college.. where they dance(if I can call it that!) on the steps of our main building with loud music (which sometimes hurts!) and do nothing more than just jump and jump and jump the full day.
Now our ABVP friends have objected to this juke-box and have ‘given permission’ to have an ALLGOS without jukebox.Our college guys didn’t agree-So it stands cancelled.
A lot like the movie right?Here too the ABVP guys feel that its not part of our tradition etc.
Now I don’t know if this influence of ABVP on college students is good for them or not.. but I’ll surely miss looking at the guys jumping on the steps ,feeling good about themselves with their ‘new moves’. It can get quite hilarious sometimes to see even the most padaaku junior doing something funny, and though the festival in our college may not be as good as an iitian or a bitsian one, at least in these three days we get to meet fellow students from other departments and basically have fun.I think with juke box or without, we should’ve had our cultural festival.
And if I can add a paragraph on the movie-Rang de Basanti.. I liked it a lot.(Some do say that nowadays I tend to like ALL the movies after I saw ‘neel n nikki’ as tend to compare movies with that one so I end up liking all the movies!).The revolutionary part was also well made, well I felt like becoming a ‘rebel’ after the movieJ I think it’s a ‘must-see’ for all. But well, not everybody liked it. I forced my father to go to the movie and I got to know later from my mother that he slept throughout the movie- well almost.So he wasn’t even awake when the defense minister was killed and so came back and told me that the movie had no story!!!(we laughed full evening when he told us that!)