Cultural Societies
Kirori Mal College has a distinguished history of sustained cultural activity in drama, debate, music, fine arts, photography, dance and film. These activities are organised through cultural societies.
The Players is one of the leading campus theatre groups in the country's varsity circuit, with an impressive record of exciting and varied activity throughout its 52-year history. Its members receive hands-on training in theatre arts. It generally puts up fourproductions in a year and is famous countrywide for the undoubted quality and excellence of its plays. The noted KMC Dramatics Society flourished under teacher Frank Thakurdas and was revived in 1981 by the present head Keval Arora. It has produced a large number of notable people in the film and theatre world which include Naveen Pattnaik,Amitabh Bachchan, Siddharth Narayan, Shakti Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Vijay Raaz, Ravi Baswani, Dinesh Thakur, Habib Faisal, Kabir Khan, Sushant Singh, Jonathan "Ulta Pulta Nitin" among others.
DEBSOC: Members of the debating society are a force to reckon with in debate and quiz competitions who have done exceedingly well at national and international levels. Its past members include Manish Makhija and Siddharth Narayan.
MUSOC is a dominant presence in the university in classical and light music. With its members excelling in individual and chorus performances, it has won accolades and made a distinctive mark wherever its members have performed. The band Parikrama was formed in the college as part of the Music Society as did famous musicians like Krishnakumar Kunnath (popularly known as KK) among others.
FAPS has built up an impressive record of creative work in fine arts and photography in the campus circuit.
SENSATION: The dance society SENSATION impresses audiences with its talent and professional ability wherever it performs.
THE FILM SOCIETY exposes students to a rich variety of cinematic work and critical perspectives on cinema.
The SPIC MACAY chapter of the college co-ordinates with the parent body to organise cultural performance by artists of national eminence. Santoor maestro Padmashree Pandit Bhajan Sapori, Ustad Imrat Khan, Pandit Debu Chaudhuri, among others, have given enthralling performances.
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