Aarohi

Aarohi, VNIT Nagpur
Aarohi, VNIT Nagpur
Genre	Student Run, Non-Profit Cultural Event
Location(s)	Nagpur, India
Founded	1988
Attendance	25,000 footfall, 70 colleges
Website	AAROHI's Official Website

Aarohi is the annual cultural festival (Cultfest) of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. Lasting three days, it is the largest youth event organized in the Octobers of Central India. It was started in 1989 by the pioneer batch of VNIT, which was formally then known as the Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering (VRCoE).

History[]

Aarohi was invented in 1988, and a working prototype was presented in 1989. It aims to provide an environment for students to enjoy and promote art, music and culture. Whether it fulfills its promise is regularly debated by the college authorities, with ambiguous results. It often refers to itself as "(sic)C entral India's (sic) Largest Cultural Festival."

The name Aarohi signifies the ascending order of numbers in mathematics. It originally means the ascending notes of Indian classical music. It truly justifies the ever increasing "zeal" and "passion" of Aarohi organizers, who often single-mindedly organize the event to the detriment of all other college activities, both curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular.

Some of the highlights of Aarohi are as follows: n/a

Main events[]

With new additions every year, A La Danse, Cynosure, Pentathlon, Purple Haze, Abhivyakti, Art Conoscenza, Halla Bol and Swarmanzar are the few signature competitions organized at every Aarohi. Abhivyakti is the dramatics event which includes stage plays and mimes. Halla Bol usually includes a social message embedded in street plays. Over the years Aarohi has seen some of the finest play performances. A La Danse and Swarmanzar are the dancing and singing competitions which attract participants from a different genre and dancing styles. Pentathlon, a group event with tasks ranging from a wide spectrum of the area is a hit amongst the participants.

Abhivyakti[]

Abhivyakti is the stage play and mime competition. It is often the target of severe criticism due to its judges. However, it often pulls an audience of over 10 people and so is responsible for approximately 42% of the total event attendance for Aarohi.

Cynosure[]

Cynosure is the personality contest consisting of various rounds that test the character and composure of the participant, judged by a panel of the jury from the various fields. This is often used as a comedy show by jaded senior students of the college.

Purple Haze[]

It is the flagship^{[citation needed]} event of Aarohi^{[citation needed]} which pulls a large chunk of music lovers^{[citation needed]}.

Purple Haze Band Contest: Aarohi

VNIT has witnessed many performances as well as fusions. This event is often cited as causing severe hearing and psychological damage to attendees as they desperately consume various substances of questionable licity in order to enjoy themselves.

some of the highlights are the performance of Shor Bazaar and Indigo Children in 2009, Workshop band in 2010, Faridkot^[1] in 20111.

Other events[]

Apart from the main events, several other events are organized including Shutter-Bug, Madhur Antakshari, Big Fight and Instrumentals. Art Conoscenza (why this word is Italian is not presently known.) includes various shades of sub-events like graffiti, collage, charcoal painting, T-shirt painting, street art, face painting, etc . Art exhibition displays fine arts for all three days of the main event.

Informals[]

These are the on-spot crazy and interesting events that always successfully grabs the attention of the crowd.

Informal Events At Aarohi

The main attractions are paintball, human Foosball, zorbing while many other events like 60 seconds, Rab ne Bana di jodi, Vahi pe Nigaahen Vahi pe Nishana, etc. have been engaging the crowd from past many editions of Aarohi. In 2011, there were a total of 33 informals organized and all of them received a good response.

Social Cause[]

As an attempt to give back to the society, Aarohi donates the proceedings from Cult Nite (curtain raiser and charity event of Aarohi) as a charity [no source provided]. Aarohi has donated to various NGOs such as Baba Amte's Anandvan, Amhi Amchya Arogyasathi, Shraddhananda Anathalaya, Sweekar, CAFE^[2] and Kritadnyata and continues this practice of social responsibility.... Cycle rally is organized every year in an attempt to promote cycling as a means to curb the menace of global warming as well to create awareness about various tempting issues.

Proshow[]

Professional (sic) shows are the main attraction of Aarohi which features performances by indie bands and/or artists. Various bands like Indigo Children, Parikrama, Agnee, Raghu Dixit Project have performed at Aarohi as a part of its pro show. Aarohi 2015 hosted Nagpur's first Coke Studio and Sunburn.

In Aarohi 2016, the 28th edition of Aarohi, popular Hindi rock band Euphoria performed. Kenny Sebastian, a stand up comedian who performs on a comedy show The Improv was part of the second proshow in Aarohi 2016.

In the 29th edition, Aarohi witnessed the performance of Papon and the stand up comedian Daniel Fernandes

In the 30th edition, The Local Train performed with the opening act by the Progressive Brothers. Aarohi also witnessed the performance of the stand-up comedian Zakir Khan.

The 31st edition consisted of the rock band Naalayak, and Seezi performing on the EDM (electronic disco music) nite. The standup comedy performance was partially done by Kanan Gill.