Just when we begin to think that Ms. Sheila, with her efforts, has made Thapar an ideal institution for Gen-X (..and that includes us too, mutants with Gene-X!!), she does something uberawesome and surprises us. Here she has done exactly that, again!! After the announcement of CS1.6E branch, here is another news that will surely blow your heads off. Get set for Thapar’s own Movie database Website which is to be launched shortly. No kidding this time! Here you can Check it Out for yourself.
Is is being said that the site has been modelled after the famous website IM
Db(Internet Movie Database) in terms of look and feel.
Sources say that she had to take this decision mainly due to the efforts of a certain third year student Prabhdeep aka Harry who reportedly was hellbent on “liking” each and every page of IMDb. Such was his dedication for his work that even the administration couldn’t ignore him for long. In Ms. Sheila’s words, “I went through the facebook profile of this Mechanical student, he has liked a gazzilion pages on IMDb. In addition to the regular Hollywood flicks, he has watched…wait!! I’m not so sure of that!!..he has LIKED foreign language cult classics like Der Utergang, Amorres Perros, El secreto de sus ojos and even Afhreigfkof, Tkflregfegf and Hjfifhuyfdjier. All this made me want to do something for these type of “Vehle Mechancheez” and here is the result.”
Not only Harry, there are many other people who have been a part of the Movie Revolution in Thapar since last couple of years. The number of movies you have watched out of the Top-250 list of IMDb has become a measure of your social status in Thapar(..by this I mean the number of friends you have on Facebook). Come the Elixirs and the Acumens and you can see almost everybody roaming around in the campus with a DSLR camera in one hand and a tripod in the other and more often than not, he is accompanied by a guy with an I-HAVE-NO-REASON-TO-LIVE look on his face.
While the 2nd,3rd and 4th year was always into this movie-making thing, we saw promising talent among the actors of one 1st year movie before they......well....you know! ;) And the PG students...okay, lets leave them out of it.
In order to justify her decision to the owners of Avantha Group, Ms. Sheila even went on to compare TUllywood and Hollywood. She said that Thapar has made a mark in every discipline related to movies be it Short Films, Parodies or Silent Movies, it has given blockbusters like Heart of Darkness, emotional dramas like The Last Milestone and evergreen hits like Crossroads. The awards given away to the actors and directors at the literary fests are in no way less than the Oscars or the Golden Globes.
And to add to all this, TUllywood
has found its own superstars in people like Sourav Bangotra, Suresh Malhotra, Manu Madaan, Aman Aggarwal, Rishav Rastogi, Harman Sandhu and the most recent one Paah…Err…SIR Paahul Sikand. With the recent movie Godse:Assassin(..the one that made a mark in Mood-I, but failed to impress local audiences. No girls in the cast you see..), the musical talent of Utkarsh Prabhat has come to the forefront. They all even have their own fan pages on Facebook with the likes comparable to that on the pages of hollywood legends. To become the next Karan Kantoor or Anubhav Saxena is the dream of every fresher.
Even though there has never been a dearth of acting or directing talent in Thapar and it has been winning movie-making competitions in other institutes as well, it is expected to scale new heights now that the juniors have icons to look up to and their own database at their disposal. We, at FNT just have one thing to say to them, “May the force be with you!!”.
