FCC student shines in Punjabi Declamation Contest

Lahore, Government Post Graduate College, Jhung organized an All Pakistan Punjabi Takara 2012 on 1 December, 2012.

Teams of various schools and universities from all over Pakistan arrived and participated in the event. More than 50 institutes participated in the event.

The grueling competition commenced at 9 am in the morning, where speakers enthusiastically discussed and argued topics of global importance. From Forman Christian College, Hamza Mustafa (Punjabi) spoke and won 3rd Position as a Punjabi declaimer.

FCC Formanite Music Society organized its first ever Open Mic Night on 7 December 2012 at E-025, which was attended by baccalaureate students and some faculty members.

It was a musical evening where musicians from all over the university, who specialized in various music sorts came together as the Formanite ‘House Band’ to create innovative deliveries of popular songs. The event was made possible through the hardworking work of the society’s management. Ali Abbas (Society President), Shahrukh Sherwani (General Secretary/Director) and Hamza Butt (Event Manager/Directors) advertised for auditions to recruit a diverse selection of musicians to constitute the House Band.

The vocalists specialized in both eastern and western styles; instrumentals covered a wide repertoire including acoustic/bass guitars, keyboards, harmonium, violin, tabla, and Turkish drum (Djembe). The management organized various practice sessions where songs were chosen as to reflect different tastes prevalent within Pakistani society, namely eastern folk/classical, qawali, Western and Eastern contemporary pop. Innovative song structures were created by fusing together the aforementioned styles.

RJ Rizwan Qureshi, who is also a Formanite, hosted the evening. The show started with an original instrumental composed by Shahrukh Sherwani/Zaryab Abbas on nylon guitars and Hamza Butt on violin; the crowd responded well by providing percussion through their applause. The show proceeded and was marked with songs with alternating styles such as a Hindi-English “Tune Mere Jaana – Emptiness”, a jazzy version of Nazia Hassan classic “Boom Boom”, qawali “Kun Faya Kun”, James Bond theme “Skyfall”, a couple of Maroon 5 song medleys and finally an extended “Dum must kalander” that kept playing whilst RJ Rizwan introduced the band members.

Muhammad Ali stole the show with his powerful voice and cover of “Yar Dadhi” by Ustad Jhumman, which received a standing ovation and an encore.