NAEMD celebrates the spirit of being a true Indian with Bollywood Celebs 

As the season of fest marches closer and closer with time, we at NAEMD are glad to announce the celebration of the 12^th successful year of JOSH, an inter-collegiate fest conceptualized and managed by the students of NAEMD. The students have blossomed the excitement to host the show once again.

JOSH is an inter-collegiate youth festival that offers students an exciting diversion from the rigours of their campus life and by acting as a catalyst in sparking up their monotonous life. It’s an energizing experience that beholds great levels of enthusiasm and excitement by the youth. Every year JOSH dawns with a new theme to give people an enriching visual treat. As India is a cradle of human race, mother of speech and tradition, this year NAEMD celebrates patriotism and the essence of being Indian with it’s HUM HINDUSTANI theme. College students from all across the city gave their highly energetic shots at the mumbai auditions which was held on 15^th October’17 at St. John’s Universal, Goregaon. JOSH 2017 Ahemdabad concluded on — with a lot of granduer and stunning response. Mumbai finale will be held on 5^th November’17 at st.john’s universal, goregaon while India finale  held on 15^th November’17 at St Andrews Auditorium, Bandra [W]. Mumbai auditions  gave a tough time to the judges to select the best of talents and performaces which later resulted in conducting a second round.

Josh involves teams from various colleges participating in fashion show, western and bollywood dance competition, body tattoing and face painting. It is segmented into multifarious categories that are FASHION TASHAN, DIL DESI STYLE VIDESI, RANG DE BASANTI, COLOURS OF INDIA and MERA INDIA.

Fashion tashan involves participants wearing their finest costumes and attitude and walking their way to glory on the ramp.

Dil desi style videsi is a mixture of western and Indian where in the participants shake legs on western number choreographed in a fusion style.

Then we have rang de basanti in which the participants bring out the feeling of being hindustani through their dance moves.

Colours of India and Mera India are face painting and body tattooing competitions respectively where their tattoos and designs will speak about their affection for our nation.

Mr and Ms Academia is a good looks pageant with a difference which embodies the spirit of youth. Here we inted to catch the future models and stars when they are blossoming because the educated youth is the most adored person. It is here that the raw and good looking youngster gather grace, poise, class, character, knowledge and determination the achieve.

Student idol celebrates the talent of all kinds. Students get an opportunity to  perform live on stage that will help them build confidence within oneself. All types of talents are appreciated and welcomed here.

Josh in it’s previous years has witnessed the presence of many celebrities from bollywood, television and glamour industry at India finale to name a few- international choreographer Shiamak Davar and Marzi Pestonji, PKP 2 team, Actor & Model Freddy Daruwala, Surbhi Prabhu and Viraf Patel. TV actors Pooja Gor and Raj Singh Arora, Sonel Singh, Pratik Dixit, DID fame- Prince, RJ Aditi Raval and many more. This year Gwein Athaide-Former Miss India and winner of Get Gorgeous Season 5, Shakir Shaikh- prominent fashion choreographer and a show director groomed and judged our contestants, Splitsvilla 10 fame Hritu Zee and Eisha Chaudhary ,Sheldon Pareira, Sumit Das Gupta, Prachi Thakkar, Sana Khan And Jayavant Thakare became a part of our beautiful JOSH journey.

Apart from offering platform to showcase talent, this festival acts as a foundation  for superstars in the making. This festival puts to test the potential skills and creative spirit of the students, it is a promising platform to reach out the world and also hone them for bigger events.

—————–Pigeon Media (Abhishek Dubey)