The fest has seen the participants from over 400 colleges. There were 750 participants from outside the city and plus over 2000 from the city itself.
To celebrate the fest IIM-B holds events of varied ranges from literary, word games, musical performances by rocking bands to war of the corporates and more. The day started off with a line-up of literary events like Dumb Charades, Crossword and Wordgames. Besides games there were musical performances by Mr. Manoj George, a violinist who is currently a part of the Vinapra band and Mr. Harish – whose band most recently won the Ooh La La La competition, which was judged by AR Rahman. Christ College walked away with the top prize in this musical contest, closely followed by Loyola College, Chennai.
In the performing arts category, there were 7 colleges from all over India contesting for drama. Lady Shriram College, Delhi won this showdown of emotions with the home team, IIM Bangalore a close runner-up. According to information shared by IIM-B with MBAUniverse.com, "Apart from theatre, Solo Dance was the other competition, which saw a huge turnout. In what was a tough decision, 6 male and 6 female dancers were shortlisted to battle it out in the finals." On the occasion Latin dance fans had an opportunity to pick up a few steps from professional Latin Dance artists.
On the other hand next two days at UNMAAD saw events like Movie Spoof, Street Play, Antakshari, Pot Pourri, Indian Solo/Duet vocals, quizzes, debates, War of the DJs and not to forget, the Unity Concert, a Pakistani band, Strings and an Indian band, Mrigya!
The highlight of the day was the preliminary round of Mr. & Ms. Unmaad. After fun-filled games, which made the contestants, do everything from banana eating to doing rounds of the huge campus asking for stuff to selling their self-made paintings to make a few bucks. According to IIM-B, "Only 8 of the 130 odd would-be celebrities made it to the finals that will happen on the concluding day of the fest."
Another major attraction of the day was JAM, which saw some very witty speakers, including Channel V VJ Gill himself, using their literary arms to win which was finally taken away by a contestant from NIT Trichi.
An interesting event was the Open Quiz. According to IIM-B, "This was the only event at Unmaad, which saw mixed entries from the corporate world as well as the educational institutes." The brainy alumni from IIM Bangalore walked away with the top honour.
Amongst the literary events, the Debate was a major crowd-puller with the organizers having to put a cap of 50 teams looking at the rush of the aspiring Lincolns.
Unity concert with Pakistani band Strings and Indian band Mrigya has attracted the major crowd during the event. On the occasion people were danced and sung to the tunes of their favourite bands.
According to IIM-B, "The day (or say night) ended with a round of Karaoke, with a huge participation from the non-Banglorian junta, which gave all the bathroom as well as living room singers a great chance to exercise their vocal chords."
