KKMA'S INTERZONE ART FEST: 

FARWANIA ZONE EMERGE AS WINNERS

The grand finale of KKMA's Inter Zone Arts Fest was held on Thursday and Friday, 23rd and 24th of October 2009 at Community Hall in Jleeb.  The Farwaniya Zone gaining 185 pointes emerged as winners.  Ahmadi zone with 135 pointes secured 2nd place whereas the City zone with 110 points satisfied with 3rd position.

IZAF is an in house arts contest for KKMA members which is the larges socio cultural organization of Indian nationals in Kuwait.  The contest is conducted primarily within each branch committees and then in a Zonal level.  The finalists in Zonal level contest take parts in grand finale for wining IZAF trophies and certificates.

The winners, Farwaniya Zone and the runner up Ahmadi Zone received their trophy from Sageer Trikarpur, Chairman of KKMA and Mohammadali Matara, CFO of KKMA respectively.  The individual prizes and certificates were given away by KKMA leaders and well wishers.

The individual winners of this year's grand finale are (in the order of Contest Item, Winner in the order of 1st, 2nd and 3rd)

• Elocution (Malayalam): Basheer Melady, Yusuf Elambilad, N. Abdul Majeed;

• Elocution (English):  PA Abdulla, Yusuf Elambilad;

• Quran Recitation:  Hassan CP, Abdulrahiman PK, Shajahan KM;

• Essay (Malayalam):  Basheer Melady, Yusuf Elambilad, Mohammadali;

• Short story:  Basheer Melady, Mustafa VM, Yusuf Elambilad;

• News Report Writing: Abdulgafoor KC, Basheer Melady, Rasheed C;

• Urdu poetry:  SM Basheer, Sayed Rafeek, Ahmad Kallai;

• Mappila Songs:  Azeez AC, Sabir VK, Sameer NP;

• Pure Malayalam:  Ahmad Kallai;

• Group Song:  Azeez AC and team; Abdul salam and team; Sameer NP and team;

• Quiz Contest:  Hashim P and team; AV Mustafa and team; Haris PV and team;

• Antakshari:  Sameeer NP and team; Ebrahim KM and team; Haneef Padne and team.

The program was coordinated by a large team headed by Ebrahim Kunnil, Vice President KKMA.