Wanna be a video star?Looking to star in an exclusive dance video choreographed by professionals, then here’s your chance! Join ibibo.com and get a chance to star in an exclusive ‘Dance Video’ choreographed by Bosco and Caesar. For the unaware, ibibo.com is a social networking website which has created a platform called ibibo iVideostar for the youth of India to display their dance talent by uploading their own videos. People from across the country can upload their videos dancing to any song in any language, shot using their mobile phones or camcorders and create their personal profiles. ibibo.com has tied up with Bollywood’s renowned choreographers, Bosco and Caesar, whose recent films include ‘Singh is Kinng’, ‘Race’, ‘Golmaal Returns’ and ‘Jab We Met’. Bosco and Caesar along with the ibibo.com community will choose the five best dancers from the platform, groom and train each one of them and create their exclusive music videos, making them India’s iVideostars. Commenting on the initiative Bosco opined, “ibibo iVideostar is a unique platform, which gives the right opportunity to the aspiring dancers to showcase their skill sets. The participants can be themselves and give their best performance and not be conscious of getting auditioned.” To promote this initiative Bosco Caesar have also appeared in a TV commercial for the first time ever. The response has been promising especially from the non-metros. “The youth of India have a huge need to express their talent and are hence seeking an avenue to showcase their ability and get an audience and recognition,” remarked the website’s CEO Ashish Kashyap.Conscience playThe Durga Das Foundation brings to the city two powerful socially relevant plays on December 11 and 12. Mahadevbhai, in English, enacted by Jaimini Pathak and written and directed by Ramu Ramanathan is set in a creative format. Mahadev was the secretary of Mahatma Gandhi and through the jottings in his diary, different pages of a heightened social and political era are brought alive. A master storyteller, he brings nuggets of history in comic and serious capsules. So you have leaders like Nehru, Shastri, Patel and Jinnah coming alive on stage through events, happenings and discussions. All along the values and principles that Gandhiji stood for keep getting reinforced. While 60 Seconds Deep is a bi-lingual, also directed by Jaimini Pathak and acted out by Sheila Govindaraj, Nayantara Roy, Mandhar Gokhale, and Atul Mongia. The play is a tale set in the present, in a typical bustling city. Revolving around the lives of the four main protagonists, it dramatises events from their lives as also gives a creative expression to their dreams. Conversational in style, it touches a chord within, cutting across age, gender and cultural barriers. In that it could well be your story or mine. The plays will be staged at the amphitheatre of the Strawberry Fields World School, Sector 26.Big win!At a time when people the world over are reeling under the burden of financial instability, Big FM has conceptualized a campaign that will ensure at least its listeners get a chance to get tough on recession. The campaign ‘Ek Saal Free Maal’ will run in the six metro cities of India for a period of two weeks and it uses the strap line - ‘Recession ki lenge….aur sab ko denge’. A combination of on and off-air events, the campaign is essentially a music quiz aimed at testing the knowledge of listeners about singers, lyricists and music directors. The format is simple with two contestants answering the quiz to win a ticket. What is exciting is that the quiz master will be a celebrity and the questions will be based only on the music played at that station. The quiz will be played in the morning and evening primetimes and winners will be declared every day. The big ticket shall entitle winners to an annual free supply of - fuel, grocery , apparels, DTH connection + rental, mobile phone and talktime, fitness and beauty vouchers, beverages and much more. While normally, two winners will be announced each day, the ‘New Year Dhamaka’ on December 31 will see listeners winning a Big ticket every hour! Listeners can get themselves registered for contest by sending sms on 55454.
