Xavotsav ’23, in association with The Telegraph, was the muchawaited annual fest of the Xaverians, held last month on the Park Street campus after a long gap of three years. Xaverians put in their heart and soul to keep up the grandiose legacy of the popular college fest. The idea behind this year’s theme, ‘Mirroring the Mystique’, centres around exploring the unexplored, unorthodox and fantastical elements, which merge into reality and mirror the mystique. The two-day intra-college fest saw students participating in over 60 events where each individual showcased their creative potential in the dance competition, theme walk, fashion show, quiz, face painting, rapping and beatboxing, and many other athletic events. Performances by guest artistes like DJ Greff, musical duo Sourendro-Soumyojit and esteemed vocalist Aaryan Banthia gave the students entertaining moments that will remain etched in their memories. Snapshots:
Students danced their hearts out to the electrifying beats of DJ Greff on the opening night.
Aaryan Banthia got the students grooving to songs like Yaadein, Teri deewani and Kabira.
Students danced their hearts out to the electrifying beats of DJ Greff on the opening night.
Team DIY was the winner of the Western Group Dance event. “We have been waiting for Xavotsav to happen for quite a while and it feels quite surreal that not only did we get to enjoy the fest with our friends, but we also ended up winning the Western dance event,” said Kirsten Samuels (extreme left).
The fashion show was themed ‘Hoc Est Corpus Meum’ or ‘This is my body’. The competition saw a brilliant display by several teams advocating pertinent social messages through their shows. Team Divinus, highlighting the unshackling of various stereotypes, won the event.
The street play competition had some intriguing skits that kept people transfixed.
Team Renegade, who came first at Theme Walk, played with the ‘good vs evil’ trope prevalent in fairy tales and received a lot of cheer from the audience.
Team Nyx owned the stage with some iconic Bolly numbers and won the Bollywood Group Dance event after competing with six other teams.
Students let their creativity flow on the paper as they scribbled beautiful shapes and patterns at the doodling event.
“We feel that all the hard work that has been going on backstage for many days has really produced excellent results. All the events were amazing, but if we were to choose, the War of DJs and Bollywood group dance were the highlights,” said Adrina Ekka, Mahwish Imam and Swarna Lakra, students from the Sociology department
The event Trashion (making clothes out of trash) saw students using waste materials and making sustainable and gorgeous outfits which dazzled on the stage.
General quiz participants put their thinking hats on to face a variety of brain-racking questions.
“We have not had this fest for over two years, and now we are in our final year, so we feel lucky to experience this. We loved watching the dance teams on stage. Every team put up such mesmerizing performances,” said Karishma Burman and Sourav Sil, students from the Mass Communication department.
Comedian Jeeya Sethi made Xaverians laugh out loud with her sets.
Actor Tota Roy Choudhury and danseuse Alokananda Roy were spotted on the judge’s seat for Bollywood Group Dance and other dance events.
Pictures: Rashbehari Das and Xavotsav