Gemini and Narain collaborated this year with Mood Indigo to sponsor Hysteria. Hysteria is India’s only amateur DJing competition held at Mood Indigo, the annual cultural festival of IIT Bombay. Gemini/ Narain will be showering heaps of prizes with the Winners and finalists taking home Dual CD Players, DJ Mixers and Professional Headphones. There will be many more surprise gifts & prizes and it’s gonna party time for the IIT’ans.

Attracting over 50,000 students from over 300 colleges all over the country, and is the biggest and most lavish festival of its kind in India. The festival also draws in the most versatile crowd hosting over 1000 alumni, professors and their associates who are mainly corporate. In the past, Mood Indigo has seen celebrities of the order of Ustad Zakir Hussain, Lucky Ali, Remo Fernandes, Asha Bhosale, Euphoria, Indian Ocean, Colonial Cousins, Sivamani, Pt. L. Subramanium, Shankar Mahadevan Hema Malini, Jagjit Singh, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Bhimsen Joshi, Ustad Fazal Qureshi, Pt. Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Aman and Ayan Ali Bangash, Rahul Sharma, Louis Banks, Carl Peters, Dragonfly, Astad Deboo and many more performing for crowds in excess of 15,000.

The festival is now in its 33rd reincarnation. A display of inspirational performances from professionals and students heralds the cultural face of India. Giving amateur talents a platform to perform, Mood Indigo has acted as a launch-pad for the careers of celebrities like Amjad Ali Khan and Hrishita Bhatt. And for 4 days and 4 nights, from 26th December to 29th December; a crowd of over 50,000 youngsters bask in the magic of Mood Indigo.

HYSTERIA:
Hysteria is Mood Indigo’s hippest and most successful new addition. Hysteria is India’s only amateur DJing competition with a turntablism round. Conceptualized by some of the India’s best DJs the event last year was judged by DJ Suketu, DJ Nasha, DJ Amit and DJ Friction and DJ Nihal - specially flown down from the UK. Workshops were organized prior to the event wherein DJ Nasha personally explained the nuances of turntablism, scratching and mixing. A live performance was given by DJ Suketu and DJ Nasha at the grand finale.