Mood Indigo (festival)
| Type | Student Run, non-Profit Organization |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cultural |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Place | Mumbai, India |
| Institute | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| Website | www.moodi.org |
Mood Indigo, also known as MoodI or MI, is the annual cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. It is an event usually held towards the end of December every year. The 2015 edition of Mood Indigo witnessed a footfall of more than 1,31,000 students from over 1650 colleges from across the country. Started in 1971 by a group of enthusiastic IITians, Mood Indigo, now in its 46th edition, has become the largest college cultural festival in the country. Over the years, MI has also attracted considerable media attention and numerous well-known sponsors.
Mood Indigo was started back in 1971, with a budget of ₹ 5,000, contributed partly by the IIT Bombay Gymkhana and partly by advertisements. In 1971, it was set up as a student-run non-profit organization. Since then, the students of the institute have been organising the fest, making it the biggest completely student-run festival with no outside help.
A group of the first Mood Indigo enthusiastic foursome organizers - Ramesh Advani, V.V. Chari, Nandu Mugve and Basabi Mukherji (Runi Ratnam) gave the festival its name from Frank Sinatra's Jazz song 'Mood Indigo', as Jazz music was trending in the 70's in Mumbai. And it was the appeal of Indigo - the combination of the colors - Red - Energy and Vitality, Blue - Trust & Peace relating to physical and mental relaxation giving Indigo - the color of Intuition and Idealism.
Mood Indigo has had a legacy of organisers that include names like Nandan Nilekani,Adil Zainulbhai, Atul Kanagat, Anand Sivakumaran, Amit Jain, Gautam Kollu and many more.
In 1976, MI went bigger than before, and outperformed previous editions by a distance. The 1981 edition of MI saw the widely celebrated duo of music stalwarts Asha Bhosle and R D Burman perform at the Indian Music Night. Classical Concerts, Rock Shows, Bonfires and Jamming that went on till dawn were amongst the other highlights of MI'81.
In 1991, Kumar Sanu was the star attraction of MI. By 1997, MI was considerably bigger than other college festivals of the city. From a sponsorship of around Rs. 5 lakhs in 1993, the budget was now around Rs. 24 lakhs in 1997. In 1998, Indian classical music aficionados got to listen to the likes of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Ustad Zakir Hussain. Amongst other major events that took place at MI'98 were a workshop by Annu Kapoor and by eminent cartoonists like Unny and Sabu and a pyrotechnics display.
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