Music, Art and Poetry Festival (MAP 2017) receives overwhelming response at Navi Mumbai


Posted July 30, 2017 by firstcommunicate

Anup Jalota, Sushant Divgikar, Dr. Radhakrishnan Pillai, Rouble Nagi, Rakesh Tiwari and many others were awarded.

 
Music, Arts and Poetry Festival (MAP 2017) celebrated recently at Navi Mumbai ended on a positive note witnessing huge participation from college students, government officials, corporate, artists, Bollywood personalities and people in and around Navi Mumbai. The event was formally inaugurated by Sudhakar Sonawane, Navi Mumbai Mayor, AnupJalota, Veteran Singer & Composer, Alankrit Rathod, Producer of AR Creations, Swaroop Biswas, Renowned Painter and AK Mishra, CEO, Event Eyes Communications. The festival was organised by Event Eyes Communications in association with Terna College.

“We (NMMC) are glad to have such festival in Navi Mumbai and are happy to associate with this. Festivals like this provide an opportunity for the citizens to break from the mundane routine and unearth their hidden talent. It also helps to channelize their energy creatively,” said Sudhakar Sonawane in his inaugural speech.

Padma Shri awardee Anup Jalota expressed his happiness on the occasion later in his public conversation based on topic ‘Music that Matters” with Neha Jha, curator of the event. The Veteran singer who hails from the Sham Chowrasi Gharana of Punjab also highlighted how various evergreen composition and music from Bollywood and Hindi Bhajans have better recall and therapeutic values too even now, which sharing some of the musical experiences and mesmerising the audience with his voice.

The opening day witnessed a heart to heart sharing on “Short films – Long Impact” which saw Mohinder Pratap Singh, a noted scriptwriter and Director who co-authored ‘M.S Dhoni: The Untold Story and Navjyot Gulati maker of well known short films with social messages like ‘Ghumakkad’; they shared their struggle in personal lives and how they made it big. The duo highlighted the importance of reading literature, creating original content and learning from mistakes, while continuing to experiment with latest technologies which have made short films making an earlier option compared to the early times.

The screening of ‘Ghumaakad’ in the presence of star cast along with a trailer on H2SO4 was also seen apart from Fusion Music, Mono Act and Dance by the students of Terna College. Inkstation Poetry session included soulful and melodious renditions by young poets from various walks of life, like Abhishek Gupta, Rajeev Kumar, Pratyancha Patodakar, Devroop Sharma, SakshiKamble, Ashwani and HarshitAnuragwhich too received a huge applause from the appreciative audience.Harshit Anurag's theatrical teaser of “Rashmirathi”, the famous poem of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, captured huge attention from the audience. ‘Paint your Heart’by SwaroopBiswas with city based artist RituDua was the other highlight of the event. On Day 1, Anup Jalota, Veteran Singer was felicitated with MAP Music Master Award, Alankrit Rathod, Producer AR Creations, a sister concern of Infratech was felicitated with Best Land Banker of Mumbai for Infratech and Sudhakar Sonawane, Mayor of the city was given a Vote of Thanks Memento.

On a concluding day, the event commenced with Art, Music, Dance, Drama, Theatre competitions which were meant for Terna College students follow by Wordplay RAP from Sudeep Pagedar, Searching life in Poetry by Rakesh Tiwari and some powerful words by Woman Empowered India founder Smeetha Bhoumik, Smita Sahay and Faizan Faiz. Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai in conversation with Kunal spoke on identifying “Leadership Qualities”. Kartik Sharma performed on “Earth” Music which also received huge appreciation by the audience.

MAP Awards was a special highlight of the Show on day 2, wherein Sushant Divgikar was awarded MAP Revolutionary Award, Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai was awarded MAP Bestseller Author Award, RoubleNagi was awarded MAP Noble Artist Award, Rakesh Tiwari was awarded MAP Visionary Award followed by felicitating Terna College CEO P.T. Deshmukh and college students who won the competitions.

Neha V Jha, Curator- MAP Festival was of the view that Music, Art and Poetry are the best ways of expression and communication. The objective of MAP 2017 was to give its audience two days of escape from the hustle-bustle of the city’s life and we are proud to say that we were successful in doing so. We are planning to bring it in a bigger format next year. MAP Festival is an annual event of the city now.
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Last Updated July 30, 2017