page_title: Saarang
section_title: Popular Night
hierarchical_section_title: Saarang / Events / Popular Night
caption_attribution_description: English: People at the Terry Fox run to raise cancer awareness, at IIT Madras
context_page_description: Saarang is the annual social and cultural festival of IIT Madras. It is a 5 day long festival usually in the second week of the year which receives a footfall of over 70,000+ people from over 500 colleges all across the country. Founded in 1974, Saarang is the second oldest college festival in India and has established a firm place in every student's college bucket list. Having started off under the banner of 'Mardi Gras' the fest was initially home to a small number of quizzes and music events widely regarded as South India's most competitive. Through the early 21st century the festival, having changed its avatar and adopted the name 'Saarang', grew rapidly with the help of corporate sponsorship, collaboration with large-scale event organisers and international artistes from 5 continents.
  Saarang is a not-for-profit, entirely student-run, ISO 9001:2015 organisation, making it the only one of its kind amongst college festivals. All organising members of the festival are current students of IIT Madras. 450 student coordinators are selected from amongst 10,000 students on campus through a gruelling and competitive application procedure, characteristic of the IITs.
context_section_description: Popular Night is hosted at the Open Air Theatre of IIT Madras. It features live performances by members of the Kollywood and Bollywood music industry.  Popular Night has featured artistes like Devi Sri Prasad and Vishal& Shekhar (in the year 2012), Krishnakumar Kunnath,  (in the year 2011), the musical trio Shankar, Ehsaan & Loy(in 2010)Sonu Nigam(in 2009), Lucky Ali and Karthik (in 2008), Sukhwinder Singh (in 2007), Shaan (in 2004)., Salim-Sulaiman, Benny Dayal(2019) and Shankar Mahadevan (2020)
caption: People at the Terry Fox run to raise cancer awareness, at IIT Madras
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