with LED Costumes. But how would we get the LED
Jackets within our budget? This is when our desi
minds worked and no one better than Mudit and
I can define what the term ‘Jugaad’ means. Those
innumerable Chandni Chowk trips, trying to find
out the cheapest and yet the lights of our choices,
stitching every single LED light on the Tailor-made
jacket and then connecting the wires, we did it all by
ourselves! I am confident now that the next time the
Being selected as the P-Wave Sec-
retary and given the whole respon-
sibility of the Dance I knew it was
going to be different this time and
nothing less than a rollercoaster ride.
Diwali lights don’t work or the shirt button falls off
we will be able to fix them in a whiff!
A month before the show I was posted in a village
and that’s when the actual test began. Coordinating
with the team back here at the campus and practic-
ing whereever and whenever, I could see that there
were chances of everything falling apart. Nothing
was going according to the plan and the pressure
was getting into my head.
Getting hold of the auditorium just 40 hours be-
fore the show just made matters worse. There was so
much to do in the limited time left. We had just one
day to go through all the scenes, practice the dance
routines on the stage, do the lighting, get the props
and what not! I knew I couldn’t have handled all of
it alone and that’s when everybody stepped in and
took responsibility. Every single person who had a
part to play deserves a pat at the back. Hitesh was
a savior as no one except him could have prepared
the sound track in such a less time. I cannot thank
Mudit enough for staying up all night to fix the LED
costumes and get the screen ready for the shadow
dance. Kudos to the beautiful Backdrop created by
the Fine Arts team which was way beyond our ex-
pectations. As we all know ‘Time and Tide wait for
none’ hardly had the team realized when the 40
hours had gone by.
16 September 2016
The day arrives and soon the curtains are raised.
It was time for all our hard work to pay off. Lights,
Camera and Action! We start depicting the story
with a strong play backed by soulful dance numbers.
The story of a young girl Trisha (Chitrakshi) who
loses her beloved mother and falls into depression
after her death. With the constant abuse she faces
from her step-father who she believes to be the sole
reason of her mother’s death, she ends up consult-
ing a doctor. There she meets Aryan (Me), who like
her ‘Knight in shining armour’ changes the way she
looks at life. Things go well until the day when Tri-
sha’s step father comes home drunk to cause trouble
and Aryan ends up killing him while protecting her.
In order to save Aryan from the police Trisha asks
him to flee away. When interrogated by the Police
Trisha finds that she does not have any factual infor-
mation about Aryan soon to realise that he actually
never existed. Aryan was just a mere hallucination
caused by her desire to feel happy and secure again.
The song begins, “ We don’t talk anymore, We don’t
talk any more…” and I realise it is already the last
routine – The shadow dance, one of my personal fa-
vourites. The performance comes to an end and as I
lay on stage, curtains drawn, people cheering, I close
my eyes and wonder “Is it really over?” wishing if I
could relive the last 40 minutes all over again.
On behalf of the P Wave team, 2017 - Ayush Goel, 3023,
Batch of ‘13
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