Students run riot at Sukoon

HYDERABAD: It was a 72-hour non-stop literary and artistic endeavour by students at Sukoon 2003’, the three-day All India Annual Students Youth Festival at the University of Hyderabad. The event concluded on Sunday.
The programme began with competitions in creative and poetry writing, quiz, debate, extempore speech, elocution, story telling and turncoat and it was followed by music and dance, antakshari and songs.The students were at their best, be it the literary or artistic events including spot painting, collage, rangoli, cartooning, dumb charades and ad campaign. The festival was inaugurated by actress Amala Akkineni and magicianhypnotist B V Pattabiram.
The event provided the students an opportunity to display their innate talents. They also had a gala time with tattoos and face paintings. The crafts corner, shopping village and the food plaza kept their interest alive. Treasure hunt, theatre performances, classical nite, orchestra, rock concert and DJ nite were the special attractions.
The event concluded with the screening of films Monsoon Wedding and Schindler’s List. The finals of various literary and artistic events and the personality contest for Mr and Mrs Sukoon were held on Sunday.
The valedictory function was presided over by S N School dean prof Haribabu and the chief guest of the evening was cricketer team Mithali Raj. Film director Umamaheswara Rao and music director Vandemataram Srinivas were the guests of honour.