public voting is starting from next week
Teenage NE girls making inroads
By Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI, Nov 10 – It's raining talent from the Northeast. After Debojit and Amit Paul who took the Indian music industry by storm, it's now turn for two teenage sensations of the region to rock the country with their singing talent as Assam's Anamika Choudhury and Tripura's Smita is making fast inroads to stardom capturing the limelight in Zee TV's 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs' latest edition. The singing champs from North East continue to impress one and all by their sheer versatility at the reality talent hunt show, being screened on Zee TV.
The duo has made it to the top 11 of the competition, after outclassing participants from India as well as other parts of the world.
The kids had entered the fray a few weeks back, with the judges Sonu Nigam and Suresh Wadkar still in the process of separating the better from the good before the audience take over the decision maker's role.
Speaking to The Assam Tribune over phone from hometown Jorhat, Anamika's mother Subrata Choudhury, while expressing happiness over her daughter's feat said, " We are proud of her and hope she continues with the good work."
She said, "The fact that Anamika has been selected by the judges among the top 11 contestant is itself a big achievements."
Little Anamika, now a class VII student, according to her family members, had started humming along tracks since the age of two years and since then her mother, herself a trained singer, was grooming her.
"We were taken aback when we saw her singing tougher songs sung by veteran singers like Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle with so much ease. We realized her potential and are encouraging her."
Selection through telephone, SMS and Internet voting will start after the top ten are selected after another week of elimination.
" If she makes it to the final 10 then it would all depend on how people back home extend their support," she said.
She is also banking on the mass support participants from NE have been getting after making the final cut in such reality shows recently.
This correspondent could not contact Tripura's Smita, the other singing talent from the region to make it among the top 12 contestants in the show.