I went to my cousin's place earlier this evening and there were a bunch of her friends hanging around there. The conversation somehow landed upon SRGMP and the minute it did..they all started gushing about shakiraben, about how good she is.
I was pretty amused by this and slightly shocked. I asked them why and their reason was that even though she is from the US she has such good hindi pronunciations. I told them that she wasnt born in america and to this they replied that so what? now a days, ppl go to the US for a month or two and develop fake accents and incorporate it in their hindi. so its commendable that her hindi is so 'shudh'. I questioned them about her singing then and they all said that she has such a powerful voice! they also told me that most of the ppl in their college are ga ga over shakiraben.
So it has made me come to the conclusion that mauli does have a lot of fans in india too.