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Adieu 2014. Welcome 2015.Manek kohli manek.kohli@simcug.edu.in

Pune: 2014 was a year filled with phenomenal student initiatives, impres-sive social college events and a record number of student short films. In fact, the last statistic is indeed staggering, since more than 10 short films were produced.

In the film-sphere, the batch of 2016 had indeed been at the fore with vari-ous films such as Abhash Singh & Himanshu Arya’s ‘AVLO’ and Ashwin Lak-shminarayan’s satirical drama ‘Kya Karega Pan-du’.

Additionally, a variety of student initiatives were undertaken, with the batch

Sanjana VenkateSan sanjana.venkatesan@simcug.edu.in

Pune: DZMA-2015, the most awaited event of Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communica-tion (Undergraduate) has started its preparations to take off with the concept of “Around the world in four days”, based on the Sym-biosis motto “Vasudhaiva

DZMA 2015 goes around the world

nikhita Gowra nikhita.gowra@simcug.edu.in

Pune: SIMC-UG students have made their alma ma-ter proud in the industry. Dev Rohira of batch 2014 worked for the films Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara, and 2 States. He has also worked as a Sec-ond Assistant Director of a Hollywood film. “SIMC teaches us discipline, which is most essential.” says Dev.

Amey Ghule of batch 2013 has worked in the Music Department of Ma-dras Cafe. He has also con-

Alumni achievements

of 2015 trailblazing a ma-jority of them. ‘The Bom-bay Review’ & ‘The Elu-cidator’ – Journalistic and Literary initiatives, and

‘Viman Talkies’, an indie-film promotion platform, are the most notable.

It was also a year filled with a number of co-

curricular events, tourna-ments and competitions. Vaividhya, SIMC (UG)’s cultural festival; Maadhy-am, its official literary and

debate festival; Jugaad, a Pan-Pune race and finally In True Spirit, the college’s inter-batch sport compe-tition – all highlighted a very eventful year.

Also, it was a year filled with numerous sports and alumni achievements. The swimming team of SIMC-UG bagged the first posi-tion at the SIU Inter-college Swimming Competition. At the Pune Inter-College Debate Competition, our college won the first posi-tion. As far as the alumni is concerned, two students from batch 2014 were se-lected to receive the Chan-cellor’s Gold Medal Award for Best Outgoing Interna-tional Student in Under-graduate Programme from SIU. Additionally, three

students from past batches worked in association with mainstream Bollywood and Hollywood films.

This was also the year when the first edition of the combined SID and SIMC (UG) college festi-val ‘DZMA’ was inaugu-rated. With numerous and highly creative events and seminars, the benchmark has been set for the next edition.

In other words, it has been a glorious year for the college, catapulting it to a prominent hub of en-thusiasm, passion and cul-tural activity. Never before has such immense initia-tive and participation been seen. Of course, the future shines bright for SIMC (UG).

tributed to the film Bobby Jasoos.

“Best part about SIMC are the internships”, says Monica Sanghani of batch 2014, who worked for 2 States.

These icons stand as inspiration to the young minds of SIMC who hope to make it big.

•Dev rohira, amey ghuleworked in Bollywood &Hollywood Films

•Monica Sanghani’s role in2 States and future projects

•Students carrying theinstitute’s legacy forward

Kutumbakam”, the world is our family.

Third year students of SIMC-UG, Saurav Arya, Ammu Venugopalan and Unnikrishnan Nair will head DZMA 2015 along with 8 others from the Symbiosis Institute of De-sign.

The core team has planned to unveil DZMA

on the 9th of January, 2015. This time the sophomores will be introducing the fest to the fresh-ers. The team has also started a social media c a m p a i g n known as #whodunnit. Students of

both SIMC-UG and SID have started to practice for Chaos, a flash mob dance

that will per-formed to promote the fest in the city. “We are expand ing the events and looking to get better

guests and speakers. We plan to take the sundown-ers and sports to another level. We are looking at international participation for TESS” said Saurav Arya.

A recent HR activity called ‘You Make DZMA’ was conducted by the Batch of 2015 where stu-dents were given Jigsaw

puzzles and were asked to alphabetically make ‘DZMA’ by joining the pieces together.

On current situation check, Arya commented, “DZMA 2015 is taking off, we are looking forward to receive huge foot falls of participants and expect full support from all the three batches of SIMC-UG”.

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•Unveiling of DZMA•Promotional events

•Guests expected

•Director’s take on the fest=

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2014 was the year when the first edition of the combined SID and SIMC-UG college festival ‘DZMA’ was inaugurated.

Students make us proudaiShwarya Banerjee aishwarya.banerjee@simcug.edu.in

Pune: The year 2014 has been packed with great student and alumni accom-plishments.

The swimming team of SIMC-UG bagged the top honors at the SIU Inter- College Swimming Com-petition. The girls' team finished first after tough competition.

SIMC-UG won the first prize amongst 16 teams at Pune Inter-College De-bate Competition 2014 and bagged 3rd position in SIU Football Competition. It

was the first time the team had reached the semi-finals.

Sheikh Rehmatullah and Melody Gimey (Batch 2014), had been selected to receive the Chancellor's Gold Medal Award for the Best Outgoing Internation-al Student in Undergradu-ate Programme from SIU, which is awarded by Presi-dent Pranab Mukherjee.

With achievements like these, along with excellent faculty and remedial class-es, SIMC-UG has taken steps to defend itself as the reigning top Mass Commu-nication Institute in India.

Sheikh Rehmatullah receiving the Chancellor’s Gold Medal Award for the Best Outgoing International Student in Undergraduate Programme from the President of India.

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Student short films at a glanceBharat MiSra bharat.misra@simcug.edu.in

Pune: In 2014, the audio-visual stream in SIMC-UG has been buzzing with in-fectious activity as stu-dents from all batches have shown immense interest in the field of filmmaking.

Not including the degree films of the outgoing batch, more than 10 short movies have been produced by the current AV enthusiasts. Leading the pack are second year students who have collaborated with each other on many movie projects. Abhash Singh and Himanshu Arya have worked together on the former’s short film, AVLO and continue to collaborate over many projects in the pipeline.

“We have many crea-tive differences over con-tent and ideation, but I find that very beneficial for the project in general,” says Singh. Ashwin Lakshmi-

narayan, director of mov-ies like Kya Karega Pandu and the upcoming Bajrang, adds, “The main benefit the institute gives us is the availability of like-minded people who are willing to invest time and energy into your vision.”

Other celebrated ‘teams’ from batch 2016 have been Anshuman Bha-dauria and Godwin Tirkey (Kritaghna and Shikaay-atein), Divay Chakshu Sharma and Sushant Chaudhary (Raat Baaki Baat Baaki and The Train Not Taken), Ashwin Lak-shminarayan and Sahil Pu-

nyani (Kya Karega Pandu and Bajrang) and Samarth Verma and Probir Sabnis (4 PM Sunset Park and The Great Interview).

Not to be left behind, budding filmmakers from Batch 2017 have already started to experiment in

the audio-visual me-dium. Jumping the bandwagon is Ritam Nandy, a first year student from Kolkata who already has many short films under his belt. Talking about the encouragement he gets at SIMC-UG, he says, “It is very heart-ening to be exposed to so many different avenues at such an

initial stage in our career. On the other hand, the tight schedule sometimes limits us from shooting for long periods continuously.”

With many short films lined up for the coming year, we wait with bated breath as the young filmmakers of SIMC-UG embark upon ex-citing future projects.

2014 in retrospect 7•AvLO, ttnt, rB3, pandu,kritaghna•budding filmmakers from batch 2017•Future projects

Slew of ‘Socials’ at SIMC-UGaditi kuMar aditi.kumar@simcug.edu.in

Pune: 2014 saw a plethora of student socials take root at SIMC-UG. The bulk of organising the above has rested on the shoulders of the graduat-ing batch of 2015. Third year student Shristi Verma, along with batch mates Ra-shika Yadava and Amala Hoshagrahar, helped con-duct the immensely enjoy-able ‘Jugaad’ - a race for the street-smart and easy going. “We had so many registrations - that we had to reject some! Our spon-sors were very helpful

and we had a great time.” Jugaad was won by Isha Gupta and team of the batch of 2015.

Another event that had

people on the edges of their seats was the literary and debate contest Maadhyam. “It was my first time organ-ising an event in college”,

says Gargi Verma. “Our institute earlier lacked an outlet for the speaking arts-inclined.” Maadhyam had varied competitions, ranging from JAM to a de-bate with Prof. Siddhartha himself. It was won by the newly inducted batch of 2017.

The year also witnessed changes in the line-up of several festivals and tour-naments. These include the annual concert Vaivid-hya and the inter-batch sports tournament In True Spirit. Sarjana Singh, cul-tural coordinator and chief of the Vaividhya commit-tee has commented on the

former. 'Although the in-troduction of a competitive atmosphere had met with some criticism, we even-tually decided that doing so would accomplish the selection of cultural con-tingents for out-of-college fests.' The batch of 2015 was victors of the same.

Babu Sivakumar, sports coordinator and supervisor of In True Spirit, along with counterpart Surbhi Agarwal, was less enthu-siastic. 'We felt the bur-den of the work, and had to keep recruiting volun-teers. Perhaps planning the dates of such events well in advance may be key in

pulling it off more success-fully next time.' Hitherto, ITS was held in the month of March last year, as op-posed to this year, when it took place in September. The tournament was won by the batch of 2015.

2014 has certainly been a year for co-curricular ac-complishments and many hope to see this zest bleed into the next year as well.

•socials: Maadhyam, Jugaad,

Cinema day, vaividhya, ItS•batch 2015 won it all

•Excerpts from conversations

with the organisers'Jugaad' - a race for the street-smart and easy going - saw a record number of registrations in 2014.

Manek kohli manek.kohli@simcug.edu.in

Pune: 2014 was a year where a number of student initiatives garnered great recognition and suc-cess. Batch 2015 spearheaded most of them, although the contribution of the other two batches cannot be ignored. Viman Talkies, an indie film platform; The Bombay Re-view, an online liter-ary journal, and The Elucidator, a student newsletter, sit at the helm of this SIMC (UG) cultural move-ment.

Viman Talkies addresses the big-gest problem in the world of independ-ent cinema - distri-bution, by providing these independent artists the recognition they deserve. Visvaksen Ponnavalu, a third year student and the founder of the initiative said, “As a media stu-

SIMC-UG : Trailblazing initiativesdent, I have access to good screening rooms and an audience. The next step seemed obvious.”

The Bombay Review,

Founded by Aravind Jay-an and Kaartikeya Baj-pai, third year students at SIMC(UG), came forth as an attempt to take Pune’s literary culture to greater heights. Today, interna-

tional entries are being received. Bajpai credited a great deal of the maga-zine’s success to its illus-trations, by saying, “Some

of the artwork has been much ac-claimed by writers who have reviewed our magazine.”

Finally, The Elucidator has suc-ceeded in consist-ently coming up with editions. Con-ceptualized in Janu-ary 2014, today, its dedicated team con-tinues to carry it for-ward. Reuben Paul, E d i t o r - i n - C h i e f commented, “We began as a platform to apply our college learnings. I’m glad students are doing so enthusiastically.”

These initiatives high-light the need for student effort to go beyond our In-stitute and inspire a much larger audience. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors!