Antakshari the great challenge!!!

If you are 'Mu Sigmaite' at heart, blood and music... Then it's time to pull up your socks and get ready for the biggest and most challenging musical war ever! Get ready to fight for your team... Get ready to play Antakshari - the great challenge!

The organizing team had started preparing for the event one week in advance and they ensured to maintain enthusiasm amongst the participants. As the event was first of its own type being conducted in the company it got a whopping response and there were 13 teams which registered for the event. It was a competition within and across BUs, between the Business unit heads and the Admin team, between the young blood of Mu-Sigma and the old age people, between amateurs and professionals.

Finally On the D day:-

The bells were ringing; the stage was set, there was music in the air as it was the time for the last but not the least event in the ESTATE BUILDING office of Mu Sigma. The organizing team was ready with the different rounds, rules and questions and so were the participants and audience. It was a full house…

First round: Normal Antakshari

The game began with Sarah and Abantika singing the first songs to kick off the first round. The first round was kept simple and it was normal Antakshari round, where the singer had to sing two or more complete lines of a hindi song. Then the next team will use any one word of the current song to sing a different song. With the lights of Harish and Sriram the first round was a great one and the mood was set, there were so much of excitement on the floor that the judges had to step in to control the emotions of all the bathroom singersJ.

Second round: 2 min fun
After somehow “so called” successfully completing round one it was time for the second one. This one was NOT a cake walk for many teams. In this round the teams had to sing songs for a particular couple or an actor or a director depending on the chit which they selected. Now it was time for real fun. Teams were given 2 minutes to sing as many songs as they could for that pair, but no one thought that 2 minutes would be too long for the teams to sing and also for the audience to bear with them.
One team was asked to sing songs of DevAnand and they started singing “Tu Cheez badi hai mast mast”, on top of that other team members were generally singing songs as they had 2 min time, irrespective of the fact if the songs are right or wrong.
There was no doubt that everyone was enjoying the event and so were the audience. Many a times anchors had to ask the audience to maintain silence as no one was able to follow whatever the team members were singing.

Before we could proceed for the next round we had to announce the results of the first two rounds and based on which we eliminated 5 teams. And the results came to a surprise to all of us when we saw that one team among the final 8 was of the Business Unit heads.

Third and Final round: Audio Visual Round
All the final 8 teams were very close to each other and now it was the time for some serious competition. The first part of this round was Audio round where an instrumental was played for every team and the team had to recognize that particular song. The songs which were selected were good dance numbers and the teams didn’t find it very difficult to recognize most of them. The second part of this round was a bit tricky where for every team a movie clip was played and the teams had to figure out the song which comes in before or after that clip in the movie. This round the clips were from movies like DDLJ, Dil Chatha hai, kashmir ki kali and also from Padosan. The round was again a great hit and it was the time for final scores.

We all were taken by a surprise when we saw that there was tie between 3 teams for the second spot. None of us thought that the competition would be so close. The organizers had to come up with a tiebreaker round.

The event was a great success and each and everyone who participated in the event enjoyed it. After a very long time there was again loud music which was played on 10th floor and also there was fun in the environment. As soon as the organizing team went back to their cubicles their mailbox was filled with emails from the employees that they would like to have many more events of such sort. Before I put down my pen let me take you back to our final round The Tiebreaker.

Final Round: The TIEBREAKER
In this round there was a song which was played in reverse and the teams had to figure out which song it was. It was a buzzer round and the team that figures out the song first will be judged as winner.

After a lot of fun filled and extremely close competition we finally figured our three winning teams and each team was given gift vouchers of Crossword.