Firodiya Karandak is an Inter-Collegiate levelmulti-talent play competition organized by Socio-economic Development Trust, Pune. It is a competition which judges colleges on their overall extra-curricular talents, which include acting, dance, fine-arts, music and organizational and presentation skills. It is popularly described as a whole movie in duration of 45 minutes. This year 52 colleges participated in’ Firodiya Karandak’ in which VIT was amongst top 9 performers. Such competition enhances the overall personality of each participating individual.

THEME:

Our theme correlates the mental burden experienced by child prodigies to the physical burden experienced by child labourers. Our theme revolved around a lead protagonist Abhimanyu (Omkar Gokhale), who is a child prodigy. He lives in a hostel and a child labour, Y.D. (Aditya Lele), works nearby. He has a project partner named Rutuja (Rutuja Joshi). He has participated in various quizzes, sports, etc. competitions in his early years. He has always been winning in these competitions and has received various accolades in his childhood. His father was very strict and made him study and slog like hell. Now in his youth, he lives in a hostel and is free from the restrictions of his father. He is now an addict and he blames his childhood for this. He compares himself to Y.D. and tells Rutuja that he cannot improve in his life because his father has handicapped him in his childhood. Rutuja tells him that he has to motivate himself and get out of this pit and get a stable life for himself. All this leads to a scene where Y.D. is being beaten up by his owner and Abhimanyu ends up rescuing him. He realises that even Y.D. has not experienced childhood like normal children and just like Y.D.; even he can start his life afresh.

PRIZES:

We secured the following prizes:

• Acting – 3^rd – Omkar Gokhale (S.E. EnTC)
• Violin – 1^st – Pushkar Dhongade (B.E. Prod)
• Choreography – 1^st – Anuja Joshi (T.E. Instru)

                                   Mehak Patil (T.E. Elex)
                                   Ruchita Bhosale (T.E. )
                                   Aditya Khandare (T.E. Chem)
                                   Abhishek Loknar (S.E. )
                                   Nikhil Nirhale (S.E. )
                                   Payal Sheth (T.E. Elex)

• Set Designing – 3^rd – Ketaki Kolhekar (B.E. Mech) ·       
• 3D Wall Painting – 1^st – Minu Pilvankar (T.E. Chem)
• Sand-o-Bottle – 1^st – Piyush Patil (T.E. Elex)
• Clay Sculpture – 1^st – Raj Divekar (T.E. Elex)
• Charcoal Painting – 1^st – Amey Damjee (S.E. Prod)
• 3D Shadowgraphy – 1^st – Ashish Abhale (T.E. Mech)

                                                 Pratik Dharangaonkar (T.E. Prod)
                                                 Aditya Lele (S.E. Mech)
                                                 Saurabh Shamraj (S.E. IT)
                                                 Aditya Pendse (S.E. Chem)

• Best Organizing Team-1^st
  
  

FIRODIYA KARANDAK TEAM:

We would like to specially thank our Hon’ble Director, Dr. R. M. Jalnekar, Prof. Mr. K. G. Mundada, our Cultural Staff-in-charge, Prof. (Dr.) Mrs. A. M. Moolchandani, In-charge, Student Activities and all the Deans and Staff Incharges, for their constant support and encouragement. And a heartfelt thanks to the Alumni of VIT Cultural for their unending support and their faith in us.